Dominican Republic: Funerals of singer Rubby Perez held at 'Eduardo Brito' national theater

The funeral services of merengue singer Rubby Perez were held Thursday in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.

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00:00The funeral service of merengue singer Ruby Perez was held on Thursday in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.

00:08The tribute took place at the Eduardo Brito National Theater in the Nationals Capitals at the end at 4 p.m. local time.

00:17The honors to the singers, who was also known as the highest voice of merengue,

00:22were attended by the singer's families together with prominent figures of the music industry.

00:27The Aries will be buried at the Puerta del Cielo Cemetery in the Municipality of La Cuaba.

00:34Ruby Perez died on Tuesday after the collapse of the nightclub roof where his orchestra was performing.

00:45We lost our great idol Ruby Perez.

00:49We lost many people, many neighbors of this country.

00:52I am very sad and I want to tell the owners of the discotheque that they should have seen if there was a problem,

00:59they should have warned people.

01:01When God commands, God commands, but perhaps this could have been prevented, all those deaths, there was a failure.

01:08If I had been there and see a little piece of ceiling fall on my table,

01:13I would have gone up and taken the microphone and would have asked what was was going on,

01:18because we are God's children and we are all going to die but not like that.

01:23I am really hurt about all those people who have died and their families.

01:26I give them my heartfelt condolences and hope tragedies like that don't happen again,

01:32because we have really lost too many, too many families and too many things.