According to reports<\/b><\/a>, the singer-songwriter was traveling to Medellin when the crash occurred \u201cin the sector between Paipa and Duitama.\u201d <\/p>\n\u201cWith heavy hearts and a pain impossible to describe, the organization and team of Yeison Jim\u00e9nez deeply regret to inform you of his passing,\u201d a statement on his Instagram read. \u201cToday we say goodbye not only 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 hope for thousands of people. Yeison embodied perseverance, discipline, and love for his community. His voice and his example were born from hard work, and that is why they will forever mark the lives of those who followed and loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Five others killed in the crash \u2014 Jefferson Osorio, Juan Maneul Rodrigez, Oscar Marin and Weisman Mora \u2014 were all part of Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s team, according to Fox.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo all the fans, colleagues, media outlets, and everyone who has supported Yeison throughout his career and during these difficult times: thank you for every message, every prayer, and all the love you are sending,\u201d the statement on the singer\u2019s Instagram read. \u201cWe are asking for understanding and respect for the families\u2019 grief and for the privacy we need today to say goodbye with the dignity and affection he deserves.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeison 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,\u201d it added. \u201cHis light will continue to shine on every time someone sings one of his songs and remembers that it is possible to overcome adversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yeison Jim\u00e9nez, a beloved Colombian singer, was among six people killed Saturday in a plane crash just hours before he was slated to perform. He was 34. And, in the wake of his death, an eerie interview has emerged. \u201cI dreamt three times that we were going to have a plane crash and that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[304792,313570,380477,253056,313571],"class_list":["post-2239138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-accident","tag-bestof","tag-essential","tag-horizontal","tag-topix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239139,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239138\/revisions\/2239139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}