Yeison Jiménez was on route to a Medellín concert when he died alongside five others on Jan. 10.

Popular Colombian singer dies at 34 in plane crash with 5 others, hours before scheduled show

Yeison Jiménez was on route to a Medellín concert when he died alongside five others on Jan. 10.

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Yeison Jimenez performs in Miami in 2023. Credit:

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Singer-songwriter Yeison Jiménez is among six people who died on Jan. 10 in a Colombia plane crash, just hours before he was scheduled to perform.

On Saturday, the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics (SAUCA) announced on X that a plane with the registration N325FA crashed “in the area between Paipa and Duitama." Jiménez and his team had been traveling to Medellín, near the town of Marinilla, for a performance that night. All six people on the plane were killed in the crash, the agency confirmed the following morning.

"The Director of Aerocivil, Luis Chimenty, and the Technical Director of Investigation, Álvaro Bello, are at the site in Paipa, Boyacá," began the Sunday morning update. "Investigations are underway into the causes of the aircraft accident that left six occupants deceased, including the artist Yeison Jiménez.”

Yeison Jiménez in 2021 in Miami.

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A representative for the Colombian singer has since confirmed that he and his team were killed in the incident with a statement shared to Jiménez's official Instagram page.

"With heavy hearts and indescribable grief, Yeison Jiménez's organization and team deeply regret to announce his passing," the statement, translated from Spanish, began. "Today, we not only say goodbye to an artist; we say goodbye to a son, a brother, a friend, a human being full of dreams and courage, who transformed his story into a source of hope for thousands."

The post went on to identify the other victims killed in the crash as Jefferson Osorio, Juan Manuel, Oscar Marín, Weisman Mora, and Captain Fernando Torres.

After offering condolences to all affected families, the post concluded, "Yeison may be gone physically, but his legacy lives on: in his songs, in his words, in his struggles, in his refusal to give up, and in the indelible mark he leaves on Colombian regional music and in the hearts of his people. His light will continue to shine every time someone sings one of his songs and remembers that it is possible to overcome adversity."

Yeison Jimenez performs live on stage during the "Invencible Tour" on October 7, 2023.

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Weeks prior to the accident, Jiménez revealed in a televised interview that he had several vivid dreams predicting his own death in a plane crash.

"I dreamt three times that we were going to have a plane crash and that I had to tell the pilot to turn around," Jimenez said in a December interview with Colombian TV station Caracol. "And when he arrived, he’d say, ‘Oh, boss, thank goodness you told me because something went wrong, but I fixed it, get in.'"

At just 34, Jiménez was one of the biggest names in Colombian popular music, or "música popular," a genre that blends traditional Mexican ranchera music with Colombian roots. In 2024, he celebrated a major career milestone, selling out Bogotá’s Movistar Arena three times, with an audience of more than 40,000 fans.

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Jiménez, who broke through with the 2013 track T*e Deseo Lo Mejor, *has released eight albums. He reached No. 16 on the Regional Mexican Airplay ranking with "Tu Amante" in 2021 and peaked at No. 48 on the all-genre Latin Airplay chart.

Jiménez is survived by his wife and three children.

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