The wake of the Cuban singer Tirso Duarte, who was murderedtakes place this Sunday at the María Isabel Urrutia Coliseum in Cali, Colombia.
“In Cali we will remember him as the ‘King of Timba’ and for his great love for our city. Today, October 1, you can attend his funeral until 10 p.m.,” reported that city’s government secretariat on Facebook, which shared images of Duarte’s burning chapel.
Duarte died on Friday in a hospital in Tumaco district, Nariño department, where he was reportedly in serious condition afterwards an attack with knife and club, after a presentation.
Former colleagues and companions of the musician in Cuba such as Mayito Rivera, Yotuel, Yeny Valdés, Alain Daniel, Maykel Blanco and Emilio Frías, They expressed their condolences on social networks.
On Saturday, yesHis son had asked for help so he could hug his father one last time.
Tirso Yerandi Duarte Peláez shared a video from Brazil on Facebook in which he, visibly concerned, asked other Cubans to help him enter Colombia and say goodbye to his father.
Although the musician known as “The Pearl of the Pacific” or “The Black Angel” had developed his career in recent years in Cali, Colombia with his project Tirso Duarte and his orchestra, he is known in Cuba for his time in great island orchestras .
Havana native Tirso began his career as Pachito Alonso’s keyboardist and later was pianist for La Charanga Habanera until 2001.
The singer later became one of the main voices of NG La Banda and was also the founder of the Pupy and Los Que Son Son orchestras.