Manny Torres is a Chicago based singer-songwriter that lives for the passion filled experience of his live shows! His music brings the secular and the sacred into conversation with each other, as he writes and covers songs that demonstrate the beauty, pain, and hope that comprise the human experience as a whole. Through his warm soulful voice, he sings about heartbreak and overcoming difficulties in life, and his ineffable joy resides underneath his sorrow. The effect of this is that Manny enables his listeners to bring their own hurting hearts into song with his—he creates space for them to fully feel their pain, release it, and partake in the musical healing offered by his voice. Manny’s music is an invitation to his listeners to embrace their hopes and fears, their joys and sadnesses and find peace and calm within the messiness of life. Drawing from influences as diverse as John Legend, Maroon 5, and the Weeknd, he creates music with a strong pop sensibility all his own.
Manny found National fame as one of the top 14 finalists on American Idol’s final season on Fox. Soon after his return home to Chicago, he was diagnosed with cancer and was forced to hit pause on his music career as he fought through 4 cycles of Chemo. In mid 2018, he emerged completely cancer free and has since released 4 singles and continued to perform live nationally, including a partnership with Choose Chicago to represent the city for the Year of Chicago Music in 2020. After a promising start with big shows in Times Square and Mexico City, Covid hit and forced another indefinite pause.
Manny released his first single, "Real Lies" in 2018, along with his accompanying official Music Video. His next single, “I Do” was released at the end of April, 2019 and was picked up by Spotify’s Fresh Finds Playlist with almost 700,000 followers and quickly started to gain traction! His single, “I Feel It” was released on October 4th, 2019 and had its exclusive premier on Vocalo Radio 91.1 FM in Chicago and has quickly gained traction locally. Cruise dropped on October 23rd of 2020 with its official music video following that up a week later. His latest release, "I Still Stand" dropped in the middle of 2021 in the midst of the pandemic, and was selected as Vocalo Radio's Top 4 for In Rotation!
Set List
MANNY TORRES ORIGINALS
I Still Stand
Celebrate My Life
Cruise
I Feel It
I Do
Real Lies
All For Love
Say Goodbye
Mama Always Told Me
Psychopath
Poison
COVERS SONGLIST BY GENRE
POP URBAN
679/No Diggity – Jackson Breit
Adventure Of A Lifetime – Coldplay
All Time Low – Jon Bellion
Body- Loud Luxury
Can’t Stop The Feeling – Justin Timberlake
Don’t Let Me Down – Chainsmokers
Everything I Wanted – Billie Eillish
Finesse – Bruno Mars
Holy – Justin Beiber
I Don’t Care – Ed Sheeran
I Like Me Better – Lauv
I Want It That Way – Backstreet Boys
Locked Out Of Heaven- Bruno Mars
Make You Feel My Love – Adele
Mirror – Justin Timberlake
No Brainer – DJ Khalid, Justin Beiber, Chance The Rapper Ocean Drive – Duke Dumont
Ocean Eyes – Billie Eillish
Paris In The Rain – Lauv
Perfect – Ed Sheeran
Rather Be – Clean Bandit
Rolling In The Deep – Adele
Say Something – Karen Harding
Senorita – Justin Timberlake
Senorita – Shawn Mendes
September Song – JP Cooper
Shape Of You – Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You – Ed Sheeran
Sugar – Maroon 5
Suit & Tie – Justin Timberlake
Talking Body – Tove Lo
Tell Me You Love Me – Galantis
Tenerife Sea – Ed Sheeran
The A Team – Ed Sheeran
There’s Nothing Holding Me Back – Shawn Mendes Thinking Out Loud- Ed Sheeran
Treat You Better – Shawn Mendes
Watermelon Sugar – Harry Styles
You Need Me, I Don’t Need You – Ed Sheeran
POP ROCK
Breakeven – The Script
Chariot – Gavin Degraw
Collide – Howie Day
Come On Get Higher – Matt Nathanson Daughters – John Mayer
Drops Of Jupiter – Train
Free Fallin’ – John Mayer
Fresh Eyes – Andy Grammer
Gravity – John Mayer
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
Keep Your Head Up – Andy Grammer
Let It Go – James Bay
Little Wonders – Rob Thomas
Man Who Can’t Be Moved – The Script Mr. Brightside – The Killers
Nothing – The Script
Sex On Fire – Kings of Leon
She Will Be Loved – Maroon 5
Shut Up & Dance – WalkTheMoon
Slow Dancing – John Mayer
Stop This Train – John Mayer
Sunday Morning – Maroon 5
This Love – Maroon 5
Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
Whisper – Ernie Halter
Yellow – Coldplay
You & Me – Dave Matthews Band
Your Body is a Wonderland – John Mayer
ROCK
American Girl – Tom Petty
Brown Eyed GIrl – Van Morrison
Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty
Into The Mystic – Van Morrison
Night Moves – Bob Segar
Proud Mary – CCR
Santeria – Sublime
Some Kind Of Wonderful – Grand Funk Railroad The Joker – Steve Miller Band
Under The Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers
SOUL/R&B/HIP HOP
Adorn – Miguel
All Of Me- John Legend
Always Be Baby – Mariah Carey
Best Part – Daniel Caesar
Beyond – Leon Bridges
Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You – Lauryn Hill
Cold – Maxwell
Conversations In The Dark – John Legend
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
Distance – Emily King
FourFiveSeconds – Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney Grind With Me – Pretty Ricky
Higher & Higher – Jackie Wilson
I Can’t Feel My Face – The Weeknd
I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Whitney Houston
If It Feels Good – Leon Bridges
In The Night – The Weeknd
Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie
Killing Me Softly – Fugees
Latch – Sam Smith
Let Me Love You – Mario
Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Lovely Day – Bill Withers
My Boo – Hitmans Club Mix – Ghost Town DJ’s
Naturally – Allen Stone
No Diggity – Dr. Dre | Blackstreet
No One – Alicia Keys
One Dance – Drake
Ordinary People – John Legend
Pony – Ginuwine
Right Back – Khalid
River – Leon Bridges
September – Earth Wind & FIre
Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Stevie Wonder
Sitting On The Dock – Otis Redding
Stay With Me – Sam Smith
Sweet Pea – Amos Lee
Talk – Khalid
The Way You Make Me Feel – Michael Jackson
Thinking Bout You – Frank Ocean
This Is How We Do It – Montell Jordan
Underdog – Alicia Keys
Valerie – Amy Winehouse
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder
LATIN
Como La Flor – Selena
Despacito – Luis Fonsi
La Bikina – Luis Miguel
Mi Gente – J Balvin, Beyonce
MIA – Bad Bunny, Drake
Stand By Me – Prince Royce
Taki Taki – DJ Snake, Ozuna, Cardi Vivir Mi Vida – Mark Anthony
Yo No Sé Mañana – Luis Enrique
COUNTRY
10,000 Hours – Dan + Shay
Chicken Fried – Zac Brown Band
Her – Trent Harmon
I Like The Sound of That – Rascal Flatts
In Case You Didn’t Know – Brett Young Speechless – Dan + Shay
Tennessee Whiskey – Chris Stapleton Tequila – Dan + Shay
Wagon Wheel – Darius Rucker
What Are You Listening Too – Chris Stapleton
