1. Manuel Levins Holden was born on September 22,1989 and better known by his stage name Manny Phesto, is an Underground hip hop musician based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
12 Facts About Manny Phesto
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In September 2012, Manny Phesto co-founded and curated a day long hip hop festival in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis at which he released his Social Capital EP collaboration with Julian Fairbanks.
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April 2014 Manny Phesto released his Mike the Martyr produced Southside Looking In project online, followed by a release party in June.
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Manny Phesto was featured on Sway Calloway's Sway in the Morning show on Eminem's Shade 45 channel aired on Sirius XM.
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In June 2015 and 2016, Manny Phesto toured four islands of Hawaii on The Intra Island Music Tour He performed at the 26th annual Saturday in the Park headlined by Aretha Franklin on July 4 in Sioux City, Iowa, and Summer Set Music and Camping Festival in Somerset, Wisconsin.
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Manny Phesto is the co-founded and co-headlined the HiGH MiNDS Tour, Back in Session and Breaking Even tours which toured the United States with fellow Minnesota artists Baby Shel and The Rotation, Cold Sweat, Jantzonia, Ben Buck and others.
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Manny Phesto has performed at Fabrica De Arte Cubano and Teatro Karl Marx in Havana, Cuba.
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In June 2019 Manny Phesto released his sophomore full length project Over South produced entirely by TZ1.
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Manny Phesto's upbringing in a working-class family of artists and activists including Ricardo Levins Morales, Richard Levins, Rosario Morales, and Aurora Levins Morales has influenced recurring themes in his music.
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Manny Phesto has worked with the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign as a community organizer and was an official endorser of its directors 2012 bid for Vice President on the Green Party ticket.
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Manny Phesto has gathered "endorsement photos" from artists including Slug of Atmosphere, Immortal Technique, Mystikal, Rittz, Ghostface Killah, Action Bronson, and others.
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Manny Phesto has adopted a Metro Transit bus Shelter in Minneapolis.