This is the fortune left by the famous Vallenato singer Omar Geles, who died in Valledupar

According to those close to the singer and documents, the cornerstone of his businesses is the company La Gente de Omar Geles SAS., established in Valledupar in 2016, where his son, Omar Yesid Geles Carrillo, appears as a representative.
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​The company, now in liquidation, was born after Geles left ‘Los Diablitos’ and created ‘La Gente de Omar Geles’.

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Geles also appear The Agrogelles firms are linked, dedicated to freshwater fishing, wholesale trade in food products, sound recording and music publishing activities and live musical shows.​

Information that is circulating indicates that He earned 60 million pesos for composing songs. But the royalties from his songs are the most important asset left to his heirs.

Geles composed hits such as La falla fue tuya, recorded by Diomedes Díaz; The paths of life, recorded by Los Diablitos; Late I Met Him, recorded by Patricia Teherán; With great pleasure, recorded by Diomedes Díaz; Duele rabada, by The Giants of Vallenato; among dozens of many other hits.

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He also created the company OJS Records, Los Diablitos Musical Organization and Porcicola La Hiperlordosa, most of which were canceled after their separation from ‘Los Diablitos’.

In the name of the Vallenato singer-songwriter – says one of his close friends – there are five properties in Valledupar, among them the emblematic farms ‘Diana Paola’ and ‘Campo Florido 12’.

In addition, a house in the urbanization Los Angeles, in the capital of Cesar. In that same city they registered two more properties.
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One of his friends claims that ‘The Paths of Life’ has been so successful that it was recently used in the film ‘Sound of Freedom’. The song was written in 1992 and has had more than 30 versions.
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One of these was even highlighted by the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in 2021: “The paths of life are not as we imagine (…) it is a vallenato that ‘Gabo’ liked (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)”.

In documents it appears, in 2022, a legal brush with the firm that promoted that success: Prodemus SA