Rubby Pérez, the singer who was performing on Tuesday when the ceiling of the Jet Set nightclub collapsed in Santo Domingo, claiming at least 218 lives including his own, spent his long career devoted to merengue, the signature style of the Dominican Republic.

Fans and countrymen on Thursday shared their remembrances of Dominican Republic music icon Rubby Pérez, who was among the scores of people killed this week after the roof at the Jet Set club in Santo Domingo collapsed.

Famed Dominican singer Rubby Pérez, who was performing at the Jet Set nightclub when its roof collapsed on Tuesday night, has died at 69. The tragic news was first reported by Rolling Stone and Listín Diario and later confirmed to People by Pérez’s manager,

Memorials were taking place Thursday for a merengue star and others killed when a cement roof collapsed at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic, as the number of dead surged to 221 and crews completed their search for bodies.

Family members bade a tearful farewell Thursday to merengue singer Rubby Perez, who died this week when the roof of a Dominican Republic nightclub crashed down on him as he did what he loved best: perform for an adoring crowd.

Rubby Perez, a popular Dominican merengue singer, has died after the roof collapsed during his concert at a Dominican nightclub early Tuesday morning. The singer was 69 years old. The catastrophic incident claimed at least 124 lives and injured another 155 attendees at the Jet Set club in the Dominican Republic’s capital of Santo Domingo early Tuesday morning,

The roof of an iconic nightclub in the Dominican capital collapsed during a merengue concert this week, killing at least 221 people and injuring

The death toll after a roof collapsed at a crowded nightclub in the Dominican Republic has climbed to 218, the head of rescue operations said Thursday, in the Caribbean nation's

The number of people killed when a roof collapsed at an iconic nightclub in the Dominican Republic has surged to 221