Zuleta Poncho, singer-songwriter from Guajiro, has starred in one of the most high-profile news in Vallenato show business in recent times. And it is that the composer would apparently be the boyfriend of Maria Laura Marriaga, a woman who is 42 years apart. “Poncho” is 73 years old and “La Frunita” (as she calls herself) is 31 years old.
![Confirmed: Poncho Zuleta's courtship was a marketing ploy 1 Juanda Caribbean. Photo: Instagram @juandacaribeshow](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/GlobeLiveMedia/G4M5UHP4QJAYLIQPWJOL3YPFKE.jpg)
Juanda Caribe was criticized in the networks for receiving the Congo de Oro at the Barranquilla Carnival
The comedian from Barranquilla has shown that he is very focused on his musical facet and on February 1 he launched ‘El Parao’, which has already racked up millions of views on YouTube.
The two were trending on social media on February 24, 2023, when Zulueta posted a video in which he gifted Marriaga a luxurious 2023 Toyota Land Cruiser-branded van worth over 500 million pesos.
However, and according to the media Vallenato Portalthis whole “show” was put together by Zuleta Poncho and the singer Juanda Caribbean as a marketing strategy or prelude to the musical production premiered on February 25, 2023, which is called “La Frunita”.
“Romance is nothing more than a curated, chained publicity montage to attract an audience and capture looks that achieve the new musical goal of singer and urban music influencer Juanda Caribe, who, along with maestro Poncho Zuleta, collaborated on the theme ‘La frunita’. The videos of the vehicle delivery and the alleged birthday party are part of the music video shoot for the song,” Portal Vallenato said.
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Poncho Zuleta gave his girlfriend a million dollar birthday present and they ‘stubbornly’ kept pace with Feid
The singer lives a romantic idyll with a young woman 42 years his junior, but they both care little about the criticism against him.
There have been many comments on this relationship between Zuleta Poncho and social communicator Maria Laura Marriagasome of them very supportive wishing them many congratulations, and others claiming that “Poncho no longer has the gas to walk those trots”.
Likewise, we must congratulate both the person who planned this marketing strategy, as well as Zuleta and Marriaga, since both generated a great expectation campaign through social networks that led us to believe that this relationship in is a “very serious”. “
![Confirmed: Poncho Zuleta's courtship was a marketing ploy 3 Juanda Caribe and Poncho Zuleta would create a new song. / Photo @juandacaribeshow](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/GlobeLiveMedia/EO7V5GLE2VFH7P2AIFCWBAUXMY.png)
On Tuesday, February 21, 2023, singer Vallenato Zuleta Poncho He posted a video on his Instagram account in which he officially introduced what his new romantic partner would be. This publication has generated a lot of interactions because “The Golden Lung” of 73 years is in a relationship with a woman visibly younger than him, Laury Marriaga, 31 years old.
![Confirmed: Poncho Zuleta's courtship was a marketing ploy 4 Carlos Vargas spoke about the relationship between Poncho Zuleta and Laury Maria Marriaga (@carlitosvargasm and @frunita103/Instagram)](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/GlobeLiveMedia/I24MGW65C5FG7AJWI2BGBVQPXA.jpg)
In this sense, one of the reactions that most caught the attention of Instagram users was that of Carlos Vargas, gossip host The Web. He used the stories from his profile on said social network to share a post from the show aired by the snail channel where they talked about Zuleta’s new relationship. The communicator uploaded a photo in which he referred to the said relationship and in which he underlined how happy he looked and how lucky he was to have found a person who returned his feelings :
![Confirmed: Poncho Zuleta's courtship was a marketing ploy 5 María Laury Marriaga, the new partner of Vallenato singer Poncho Zuleta. / Photo @frunita103](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/GlobeLiveMedia/NQ3JHIQYQRBXFMIHIIRKN3UZXM.png)
Meet María Laury Marriaga, the new love of Poncho Zuleta
“Frunita”, as she is called on Instagram, is 42 years younger than singer Vallenato
“Poncho Zuleta is luckier in love than me hahaha. I would have liked to come out like that bagged and cuddled from the carnivals hahahaha ”
Vargas’s post did not go unnoticed by Zuleta, who reacted by reposting said message and responding with a few words where, jokingly, he invites the presenter not to lose hope: “My dear friend, Carlitos Vargas, who gonna get hit they dungeon”.