Popular Colombian singer Yeison Jiménez died on Saturday when the small plane he was traveling in crashed between the towns of Paipa and Duitama in Boyacá department, killing all six people aboard. Just weeks earlier, the musician publicly described recurring dreams about dying in a plane accident.
The aircraft, registered as N325FA, went down in the Romita area in the afternoon of Jan. 10, according to Colombia's Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics, or Aerocivil. The plane had filed a flight plan with Medellín as its destination when the emergency locator transmitter activated, alerting authorities to the crash site.
Jiménez, 34, was traveling with four members of his work team and the aircraft's pilot when the accident occurred. The other victims were identified as plane captain Fernando Torres, manager Jefferson Osorio, audiovisual producer Juan Manuel Rodríguez, singer Oscar Marín, and photographer Weisman Mora, according to a statement posted on Instagram by Jiménez's management team.
The Technical Directorate for Accident Investigation confirmed the crash and has begun an investigation. National Police personnel responded to the crash site, coordinating with local emergency agencies to manage the situation, according to Aerocivil.
In the dreams, Jiménez said he had instructed the pilot to inspect the aircraft before boarding. "Thank goodness he told me, there was a failure that I already solved, get in," the pilot responded in the recurring vision, translated from Spanish. The scenario repeated twice more before a final dream showed a catastrophic outcome.
"In one of the dreams, I did dream that we had died together and that we were on the news," Jiménez said in the interview, as translated from Spanish. "And it was the third time I dreamed about it. God gave me three signs and I didn't understand them."
Born Yeison Orlando Jiménez Galeano in Manzanares, Caldas, the singer emerged from poverty to become a defining voice in música popular, a Colombian genre centered on working-class narratives and regional identity that shares similarities with Mexican regional music, according to Latin Times.
Before achieving fame, he sold produce at Bogotá's Corabastos market, experiences that he said shaped his songwriting and public persona.
Jiménez gained national prominence in the late 2010s with emotionally charged compositions that connected with Colombian audiences across socioeconomic backgrounds. He filled arenas throughout the country, became a staple at regional festivals, and helped modernize the género while preserving its traditional elements.
The management team requested privacy for the families and promised to announce memorial service details through official channels. "His light will continue to shine each time someone sings one of his songs and remembers that it is possible to keep moving forward," the statement read.
The Technical Directorate for Accident Investigation said it would provide updates as confirmed information becomes available from authorities.