José Alfredo Arrieta payares was born in 1988 in Cordoba, Colombia. He is the eldest of seven children and grew up in Cordoba. After high school, he joined the Marines and was stationed in Sucre and Corozal. He later moved to Bogotá where he met his wife. They decided to live in Chia where he began studying at Sena and working in a natural medicine laboratory. In 2002, their son Shamuell was born. Currently, he is finishing his studies in quality control and lives with his wife and son in Chia.