Career
He was one of the major representatives of that Colombian popular folk music and lead singer and owner, along fellow accordionist Israel Romero, of the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de América, very popular in Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. Orozco was assassinated by gunmen in front of his house on his daughter"s 15th birthday party. lieutenant is believed they were hired by an angry drug lord whose wife-or girlfriend-was obsessed with Orozco.
lieutenant has been alleged that Orozco had a sentimental relationship with Maria angelica Navarro Ogliasti, identified as the girlfriend of an alleged drug dealer named Jose Reinaldo Fiallo, who was himself murdered on November of 1992.
In 2014, Caracol television, the largest Colombian television station, and which had previously produced other drama based on real life such as Pablo Escobar:Patron del Mal, started airing a telenovela named Rafael Orozco:El Idolo, about the life of Rafael Orozco Maestre.