Jorge Celedón also known as Jorgito Celedón (born March 4, 1968 in Villanueva

Villanueva, La Guajira

Villanueva is a town and municipality located in the northern Department of La Guajira, Colombia. Villanueva is known in Colombia for being the cradle of many vallenato singers and composers...

, La Guajira

Department of La Guajira

La Guajira is a department of Colombia. It occupies most of its namesake peninsula, the Guajira Peninsula in the northeast region of the country, facing the Caribbean Sea and Venezuela in the northern most part of South America...

) is a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n musician, singer of vallenato

Vallenato

Vallenato, along with cumbia, is currently a popular folk music of Colombia. It primarily comes from the Colombia's Caribbean region. Vallenato literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing this name is located between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía de Perijá in...

 music. Celedón was one of the backup singers for the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de America

Binomio de Oro de América

Binomio de Oro de América is a vallenato musical group from Colombia. It was founded by lead singer Rafael Orozco and accordionist Israel Romero in the Caribbean Region of Colombia on June 16, 1976...

 who joined after the death of Rafael Orozco Maestre

Rafael Orozco Maestre

Rafael Orozco Maestre, was a Colombian singer of vallenato music. He was one of the major representatives of that Colombian popular folk music and lead singer and owner, along fellow accordionist Israel Romero, of the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de América, very popular in Colombia, Mexico and...

. In 1998, he decided to create his own vallenato group and teamed with accordionist Jimmy Zambrano.

As a child

Celedon grew up singing vallenato

Vallenato

Vallenato, along with cumbia, is currently a popular folk music of Colombia. It primarily comes from the Colombia's Caribbean region. Vallenato literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing this name is located between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía de Perijá in...

 making him a very good singer. His first performance was with his uncle Daniel Celedón, in his own group called Doble Poder (Double Power). This helped him to become a great star of vallenato by the time he was an adult.

Latin Grammy

Celedon and his vallenato group were nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards on August 29, 2007 in Miami. At the 8th Annual Latin Grammy Awards

Latin Grammy Awards

A Latin Grammy Award is an accolade by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. Unlike the regular Grammy Award which primarily honors music produced in the United States, the Latin Grammy honors works produced anywhere around the...

 ceremony held on November 8, 2007 in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Strip

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, United States

United States

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, Celedón and accordionist Jimmy Zambrano received the award in the category Cumbia/Vallenato for their album Son... Para El Mundo (Sony BMG Music/North) .
In July 2008, he performed in front of president George W. Bush at an event at the White House in celebration of Colombian independence day.

Jorge Celedon's Work With Son De Cali

On Friday June 6, 2008, it was confirmed that Celedon Was working on a new song along Salsa

Salsa music

Salsa music is a genre of music, generally defined as a modern style of playing Cuban Son, Son Montuno, and Guaracha with touches from other genres of music...

 group Son De Cali. The song is to be named "De lo nuevo... lo mejor"

Discography

Binomio de Oro de América

Binomio de Oro de América

Binomio de Oro de América is a vallenato musical group from Colombia. It was founded by lead singer Rafael Orozco and accordionist Israel Romero in the Caribbean Region of Colombia on June 16, 1976...

• 1993 - Todo Corazón
• 1994 - De la Mano con el Pueblo
• 1995 - Lo Nuestro

Jean Carlos Centeno

Jean Carlos Centeno

Jean Carlos Centeno is Colombian-Venezuelan singer and composer of vallenato, bolero and salsa. Centeno gained fame as singer and composer for the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de America. On December 31, 2005 Centeno left the Binomio de Oro to pursue his own vallenato group along accordionist...

 and Jorgito Celedon became lead singers

• 1996 - A su Gusto
• 1997 - Seguimos por lo Alto
• 1998 - 2000
• 1999 - Más cerca de tí

With Jimmy Zambrano

• 2001 - Romántico Como Yo
• 2002 - Llevame en Tus Sueños
• 2003 - Canto Vallenato
• 2004 - Nuevas Canciones del Alma
• 2004 - ¡Juepa je!
• 2006 - Son Para el Mundo
• 2009 - La invitacion

External links

Jorge Celedon official website

• Jimmy Zambrano - official