The Colombian singer Yeison Jimenezwho died this Saturday along with five other people in a small plane accident in the department of Boyacá (center), revealed 20 days ago in a television program that Three times he dreamed of an air accident and in one of them he died.
«I dreamed three times that we were going to have an accident on the plane and I had to tell the pilot to go and give it a spin. When he arrived he told me: ‘Boss, thank goodness he told me because something went wrong, but I already solved it’«, Jiménez said in the program ‘Se dice de mí’, on Caracol Televisión, on December 20.
The artist added: «In one of the dreams I did dream that we had killed each other and we were on the news«, as actually happened today in real life.
The artist, 34, died this Saturday along with four of his collaborators and the pilot when his plane crashed shortly after taking off from Paipa city airport (Boyacá) bound for Medellín from where he would continue for a presentation in the town of Marinilla.
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The video of Yeison Giménez’s accident
In another interview, Jiménez explained that two of those dreams occurred during a tour of Spain and that in one of them the plane took off and returned due to a technical failure. In another dream, when there were fifteen days left before the birth of his son, he said, the plane crashed.
According to his testimony, Some time later he experienced a real episode in which, after taking off from Olaya Herrera airport, Medellínthe aircraft in which he was traveling suffered a failure in one of its engines and had to return in an emergency, an experience that, he said, impacted him deeply because «it was very critical.»
Yeison Jiménez, the singer who died in a plane crash. Photo: AFP«That day I almost left, my baby (…) was crying,» the artist said in the interview, in which he described that moment as one of the most difficult of his life in emotional terms.
Jimenez, born in Manzanares, in the department of Caldashad just established himself as one of the main figures of the recent Manizales Fair, where he had a prominent role in the musical programming. In addition, he had an intense concert schedule planned.
Photograph published by Civil Defense of Colombia of the tragic accident. Among his next projects was a new presentation at the El Campín stadium in Bogotá, scheduled for next March 28, which was going to serve as a continuation of the concert he offered there on July 26, 2025, considered by critics and followers as the peak of popularity of the popular music performer.
With successes like ‘Adventurer’, ‘Go Away’ and ‘My Revenge’, Yeison Jiménez became one of the most popular artists in the country and a key figure in the expansion of the popular genre to large stages.
With information from EFE
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