Ricardo Arjona las flores

Amid the sadness and tears, hundreds of people attended the funeral Moscoso Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter father Ricardo Arjona, yesterday afternoon at the cemetery Las Flores, Mixco.

Relatives and friends of Arjona Moscoso and admirers of the singer, came early to the cemetery chapels Las Flores, where he officiated the funeral mass at 15 hours.

Ricardo Arjona son came to the funeral home minutes before religious service, in deep mourning, beardless and without glasses I used to use.

At the end of the Mass, Ingrid Arjona, one of the two sisters of the musician, thanked the public and displays of affection. "We want to thank everyone, because everyone who came to us had a 15 or 20 stories to tell about Dad," Arjona Moscoso and we want to go with great joy (...), he said. " Dad went to heaven with the certainty of having made three wonderful children, "he said, minutes before the burial.

Stated that, although they were difficult, his father's last moments were filled with love and joy, and was accompanied by his family until the end of a "beautiful day."

After the service asked the public to withdraw due to "great pain" felt. Also present were the grandchildren of Arjona Moscoso and friends as Rigoberta Menchú.

Emotional goodbye

While the song sounded Let It Be, The Beatles, one by one the deceased's family, including his son Richard, kissed the coffin.

The singer, visibly moved at the end of the service, gave no statements, but Ingrid had said hours before reporters: "Ricardo ... like us, is hurt and shocked, but we're calm because his father- - gave him the best as children. " The funeral service was held quietly.

The farewell was attended by 500 people, who have withdrawn about 17 hours.

Hundreds of followers of the artist saturated social networks Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

Arjona Moscoso died Monday night, at age 78 because of terminal illness.

The father of Guatemalan singer Ricardo Arjona died aged 78 on Monday at a private hospital in Guatemala, where he was hospitalized for several days by illness, the family said Tuesday.

The father of Guatemalan singer Ricardo Arjona died aged 78 on Monday at a private hospital in Guatemala, where he was hospitalized for several days by illness, the family said Tuesday.

The remains of the artist's father, also known as Ricardo Arjona, will be veiled in a cemetery chapel Flowers of the capital, where they would be buried on Tuesday afternoon.

"Ricardo is greatly affected just like us, he is a good son, good brother, a good human being," he told journalists Veronica Arjona, sister of the singer.

He explained that the balladeer, who lives in Mexico, arrived in Guatemala to attend the funeral, which will be "very private and family life.

The Arjona's father was born in 1932 in the Indian town of Tecpan Guatemala, 90 km west of the capital, where the Spanish settled the first colonial city in the country in the sixteenth century.

He was a teacher of elementary education and in the 1960's lived with his family in Jocotenango, Sacatepéquez department, adjacent to the tourist Antigua Guatemala, Guatemalan singer-songwriter was born there in 1964.

The singer has had a successful career with songs like Women, Lady of the four decades, History of taxi, if the north south and Jesus was not substantive verb, among others.

His most recent album Poquita clothing tops the list as best seller in Argentina, Chile and Mexico.