Live: Fans fire Tito Rojas, “El Gall Salsero”, in Humacao

Humacao – To the beat and chorus of the song “No One Is Eternal,” dozens of fans received at noon this afternoon the coffin of the salsa player Tito Rojas who died Saturday morning at the age of 65.

With flags, keys, skeletons and cell phones, fans surrounded the white hearse that entered the vicinity of the Coliseum Marcelo Trujillo Panisse at about 12.40 pm Some arrived from various villages on the island and went start queuing on the outskirts of the sports center early in the morning.

Funeral services for the singer who died on Saturday as a result of what appeared to be a heart attack will be held between 1:00 pm and 6:00 pm with due distancing protocols.

The mayor of Humacao, Luis Raúl Sánchez Hernández, decreed five days of mourning on Saturday in the municipality where Rojas grew up and lived and where he died at the home of a relative.

“The family is going through a difficult time and we want to be the support for them right now. Tito raised the name of Humacao and Puerto Rico, the least we can do is offer this last goodbye as it deserves.” Sanchez Hernandez said in a statement yesterday.

An activity is expected to be held at 5:00 pm in which the pastor of the church Rojas attended will perform a small ceremony of about 20 minutes. Then the daughters and the mayor of Humacao will speak.

“People will be able to come in, they will be given the temperature and given a hand sanitizer. People will come in, pay their respects and leave. Inside the coliseum there is a space for the media, another for to the relatives of the family and, as the coliseum is so large, at the request of the daughters, there will be a space for the musicians who worked with him. But the public can at no time congregate inside the coliseum, “he stressed yesterday. the artist’s former manager, Robert Cruz.

Burial will be on Wednesday, Dec. 30, from 10 a.m. But it will be private.