Jeimy Arrieta

Jeimy Arrieta
Born
Jeimy de Jesús Arrieta Ramos

1996 or 1997 (age 28–29)
Arjona, Colombia
GenresVallenato
Years active2006–present

Jeimy de Jesús Arrieta Ramos[a] (born 1996 or 1997) is a Colombian accordionist. She won the child accordionist competition of the Vallenato Legend Festival in 2007, and was crowned vallenato queen for winning the acordeonera mayor competition in 2020.

Biography

Jeimy de Jesús Arrieta Ramos was born in 1996 or 1997 in Arjona, in the Colombian department of Bolívar.[1][2] Her brother, father, and grandfather are all accordionists, and her sister Sandra plays the caja.[2][3]

Arrieta started learning to play accordion at the age of 7.[1] She first competed in the child accordionist competition of the Vallenato Legend Festival in 2006, and she won in 2007.[4] In 2017 she appeared as Cecilia Meza Reales in the telenovela La Cacica.[5]

In 2019, the Vallenato Legend Festival split the accordionist competitions by gender for the first time, and Arrieta competed in the acordeonera mayor competition, whose winner is given the title of vallenato queen.[3] She competed again in 2020 and won, becoming the second vallenato queen after Loraine Lara. She was accompanied by Alberto Camacho on caja and Jorge Luis Daza on guacharaca.[2] Arrieta has also won accordion competitions at several other Colombian festivals, including the Bolivarense Accordion Festival and the Mar de Acordeones Festival.[3][2]

In 2021, Arrieta released the EP Los Cuatro Aires with vallenato singer Iván Villazón. Villazón claimed to have conceived of the project while judging at the 2020 Vallenato Legend Festival, as a "tribute to the winner, Jeimy Arrieta...in order to give my full support to the women's movement that is taking place in vallenato music, which is very strong."[2]: q 

Notes

  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arrieta and the second or maternal family name is Ramos.

References

  1. ^ a b Julie Parra Benítez (10 December 2017), "Jeimy Arrieta creció con la música" [Jeimy Arrieta grew up with music], El Universal (in Spanish), retrieved 14 October 2025
  2. ^ a b c d e Juan Rincón Vanegas (26 April 2021), "El sueño cumplido de Jeimy Arrieta, la Reina del Vallenato" [A dream come true for Vallenato Queen Jeimy Arrieta], El Universal (in Spanish), retrieved 14 October 2025
  3. ^ a b c Jonathan Diaz (9 September 2020), "Jeimy Arrieta le madruga a la corona", El Heraldo (in Spanish), retrieved 14 October 2025
  4. ^ Cristian Agámez Pájaro (9 September 2020), "Yeimy Arrieta, primera inscrita en el Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata" [Yeimy Arrieta, first to register for the Vallenato Legend Festival], El Universal (in Spanish), retrieved 14 October 2025
  5. ^ Jenny Cifuentes (30 August 2025), "Las pioneras ocultas del vallenato: la historia de las primeras acordeoneras" [The hidden pioneers of vallenato: the story of the first female accordionists], Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish), retrieved 14 October 2025
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