Wendy Corzo

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Wendy Corzo
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Corzo in 2022
Background information
Birth nameWendy Paola Corzo Carmona
Born1996or1997(age 28–29)
La Mina, Cesar, Colombia
Genres Vallenato

Wendy Paola Corzo Carmona [a] (born 1996 or 1997) is a Colombian vallenato accordionist. She has twice won the accordionist competition of the Encuentro Vallenato Femenino, and was vallenato queen of the Vallenato Legend Festival in 2023.

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Biography

Early life

Wendy Paola Corzo Carmona was born in 1996 or 1997 and grew up in the village of La Mina, in the Colombian department of Cesar. [1] She is Kankuamo, and her family are originally from Atanquez. [1]

Music career

Corzo was given her first accordion at the age of 11 by her parents, and was taught to play by Iván González and Chema Ramos. [1] She then joined Andrés "El Turco" Gil's group Los Niños Cantores y Acordeoneros del Vallenato, with whom she toured Europe. [1]

In 2016 Corzo competed in the accordionist competition of the inaugural Encuentro Vallenato Femenino (Evafe), coming second behind Leidy Salgado. She also performed in the group contest with singer Evelyn Gómez, which they won. [1] Corzo performed with Gómez at the Orchestra Festival of the Barranquilla Carnival in 2017, where they won a Congo de Oro in the vallenato category, with Corzo also winning individually in the best instrumentalist category. [2] She won the Evafe accordionist competition in 2017, and again in 2025. [3]

The Vallenato Legend Festival separated its accordionist competition by gender for the first time in 2019, and Corzo competed, but lost to Loraine Lara. She competed again in 2020 and 2022, and in 2023 she won and was awarded the title of vallenato queen. [1] She performed again at the festival in 2024. [4]

Corzo is a member of Las Musas del Vallenato, the all-female vallenato group founded by Patricia Teherán and Graciela Ceballos  [ es ], and led by Danny Ceballos  [ es ]. [3] She regularly accompanies Arhuaco singer Kandy Maku on the accordion, and they have toured in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Japan. [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Corzoand the second or maternal family name is Carmona.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Liliana Martínez Polo (15 June 2023), "'Desde que tuve uso de razón quería un acordeón': la reina mayor del Festival Vallenato" ['Ever since I can remember, I've wanted an accordion': the queen of the Vallenato Festival], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 17 September 2025
  2. ↑ Liliana Martínez Polo (14 November 2017), "La acordeonera kankuama que conquistó el Evafe" [The kankuamo accordionist who triumphed at Evafe], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 17 September 2025
  3. 1 2 3 Humberto Enrique Carrillo (18 August 2025), "Wendy Corzo, indígena kankuama, es la nueva soberana del Encuentro Vallenato Femenino 2025" [Wendy Corzo, indigenous Kankuamo, is the new sovereign of the 2025 Encuentro Vallenato Femenino], Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish), retrieved 17 September 2025
  4. ↑ "La reina del Festival Vallenato se une al artista nativo Kandymaku" [The queen of the Vallenato Festival joins forces with local artist Kandymaku], El Universal (in Spanish), 23 April 2024, retrieved 17 September 2025
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