IVÁN FRANCISCO VILLAZÓN APONTE, born in Valledupar on October 25, 1959. Son of Dr. Crispín
Villazón de Armas and Clara Elisa Aponte López. He attended elementary school at the "María
Montessori" School in Valledupar, continuing to high school at the "Refous" in the country’s
capital and attending University Externado in Colombia where he takes four years of Law,
changing this career for vallenato songs, against the will of his parents and relatives, but
which has become their greatest satisfaction with the passing of time.
He is currently married to the barranquillera Aida Mercedes García Tolosa and had three
children: Crispín Enrique, Iván David and Daniel Camilo, who from an early age have shown
different artistic qualities playing the accordion, drums, performing musical productions
and singing, inheriting from his father the passion for this beautiful art.
From a very young age, VILLAZÓN showed an aptitude and talent for performance and music in
general. Asides from singing, he masterfully performs the Box and the Guacharaca. The
musical talent of this excellent performer of our folklore was inherited from his paternal
grandmother, Ana María de Armas Pumarejo, who played piano seamlessly. Watching well known
masters of the standing of "Colacho" Mendoza, Adán Montero, Ovidio Granados, Rodolfo
Castilla, Alejo Durán and many more, play and sing, and who were taken to parties organized
by the old "Crespo" at his own home, IVÁN refined his musical aptitude.