Stockholm, Sweden

Matthew Manning

Sophomore

Matthew “Soul Brother” Manning, also known as “Chocolate Thunder,” “Cocoa Lightning,” “Milk Chocolate,” “Tall, Dark and Handsome,” “MC Pez,” and “Daisy,” was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent the last few years in Minneapolis, MN.  He plays basketball, and vennis, draws, and of course, spits mad fire with his vocal chords.  Matthew enjoys volunteering and serving the world. He spent last summer in an orphanage for the impoverished in Ghana, West Africa, teaching sports education.

Matthew recently created his own non-profit organization, Worldwide Orphanage Relief Corporation (W.O.R.C.) to raise relief efforts for international impoverished youth. Besides singing and lending a helping hand, Matthew is also in the process of writing a book.

For more information about Matthew’s humanitarian work or his organization visit: orphcorp.org.

Idols include his pops, Bob Manning, and other greats like The Temptations, The Spinners, Boyz II Men, Brian McKnight, Anthony Hamilton, John Legend, and Kirk Franklin.

He’s a jive turkey and a soulful kind a brotha.

“I do what I does”