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Jorge Luis Velosa Ruiz was born in Ráquira Boyacá in 1947, son of Ema and Jorge, is the youngest of six brothers of whom he is the only one dedicated to music, is the expression of his people, is a constant animator , Creative, researcher y composer, he loves his country and his land.

He studied veterinary and music. He has more than a hundred couplets and poems - for singing and reciting - and 20 recordings that are part of the national folklore. He is responsible that the carranga would turn the world around. He has two iconic characters in the history of Colombian television: Florentino Bautista (Don Chinche) and Trino Epaminondas Tuta (Romeo and Buseta). He is the author La Cucharita and Julia, Julia, Julia. He inspired the name of two endemic frogs: the Eleutherodactylus Jorgevelosai and the Eleutherodactylus carranguerorum.

He is an ordinary man, humble, dreamy, with the strong temperament of Boyacense; With very clear goals in his life and search for reasons to write that so many people have wanted to say, and he, with the best humor, the greatest frankness and with its form without equal writes, says and sings the everyday in terms that all his people understand and enjoy.