The teacher, pride of the Valle del Cauca, moved the attendees to the Primada Cathedral of Bogotá.
News Colombia.
This Wednesday, August 13, 2025 ‘El Guerrero’ again charged prominence when Yuri Buenaventura He interpreted it during the funeral mass of the senator Miguel Uribe Turbay In the Primada Cathedral of Bogotá, accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá.
His presentation, requested by the politician’s family, was one of the most emotional moments of the ceremony and reaffirmed the power of his music as a symbol of strength and hope.
“Miguel told me ‘I really like the warrior’, and his family asked me to be singing that song here,” Yuri Buenaventura said in dialogue with the FM station.
Here, the emotional presentation of the artist:
The Eucharist ends with ‘El Guerrero’, played by Yuri Buenaventura, at the request of the family of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay. The body will be transferred to the central cemetery of Bogotá. pic.twitter.com/welmhkivce
– Teleantioquia (@teleantioquia) August 13, 2025
Who is Yuri Buenaventura
Yuri Buenaventura, born as Yuri Bedoya Giraldo in Buenaventura, Valle del Caucais one of the greatest exponents of Colombian sauce and a renowned cultural ambassador. His career took off in Paris in the early 1990s, where he went from singing in the subway to presenting himself in large international scenarios. His African inheritance album granted him a gold album in France, being the first salsa to achieve it in that country.
His music, loaded with identity and social message, rescues the roots of the Colombian Pacific and denounces problems such as violence and state abandonment. Among his most emblematic compositions is ‘El Guerrero’, included in the Vagabundo album (2003), which was born as a tribute to Luis Carlos Galán But he ended up becoming a hymn for all those who fight day by day for their dreams and dignity.
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