Nataly Patiño

Nataly Patiño
Born
Nataly Yishell Patiño Amarís

1999 or 2000 (age 25–26)
Valledupar, Colombia
GenresVallenato

Nataly Yishell Patiño Amarís[a] (born 1999 or 2000) is a Colombian vallenato accordionist. She won the accordionist competition of the Encuentro Vallenato Femenino in 2018, and was crowned vallenato queen for winning the acordeonera mayor competition of the Vallenato Legend Festival in 2021.

Biography

Early life

Patiño was born in 1999 or 2000 in Valledupar, in the Colombian department of Cesar, to Karina Amarís and Wilmar Patiño.[1] Her father is an accordionist, and began teaching her to play at the age of 7; the first song she learned was "La Piña Madura", written by Guillermo Buitrago.[2] She was later taught by Jairo Suárez Reales.[2]

Music career

In 2016 Patiño won the accordionist competition of the Festival Femenino del Vallenato, which was organised by the Cacique Tayrona Foundation.[2] She was the only woman to compete in the accordionist competition of the Festival Cuna de Acordeones in 2019.[2] Also in 2019, Patiño competed in the inaugural acordeonera mayor competition of the Vallenato Legend Festival, whose winner is crowned reina vallenata (Spanish for "vallenato queen").[3] In November 2019 she won the accordionist competition of the Encuentro Vallenato Femenino (Evafe).[4]

Patiño competed again in the acordeonera mayor competition of the Vallenato Legend Festival in 2020, and came second; during the competition, her mother died of breast cancer.[1] Patiño had sold an accordion to pay for her mother's treatment, and sold another to pay her funeral expenses.[1] In the competition she played two songs of her own composition, the puya "Comenzó el Festival" and the son "El Derecho de las Mujeres".[1] In 2021, Patiño competed once more, and won. Sara Arango came second, and María Sara Vega came third.[5]

Notes

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

References

  1. ^ a b c d Ludys Ovalle Jácome (5 October 2020), "Promesa vallenata debió empeñar sus acordeones para sepultar a su mamá" [Vallenato player had to pawn her accordions to bury her mother], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 23 September 2025
  2. ^ a b c d Eveling Rico Albañil (22 September 2019), "Puya con alma de juglaresa, el acordeón de Nataly Patiño" [Puya with the soul of a juglaresa, Nataly Patiño's accordion], Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish), retrieved 23 September 2025
  3. ^ Liliana Martínez Polo (20 April 2019), "Las mujeres en su camino al primer título de reina vallenata" [Women on their way to the first vallenato queen title], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 23 September 2025
  4. ^ Liliana Martínez Polo (18 November 2019), "El Evafe: el vallenato femenino cada vez más internacional" [Evafe: female vallenato becoming increasingly international], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 23 September 2025
  5. ^ Alberto González Martínez (17 October 2021), "Daniel Paternina y Nataly Patiño: ¿quiénes son estos dos reyes vallenatos?" [Daniel Paternina and Nataly Patiño: who are these two vallenato monarchs?], El Espectador (in Spanish), retrieved 23 September 2025
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