Costa Rica Says Goodbye To Fidel Gamboa

Thousands attended an all night memorial and the same number are expected to take part in the funeral of Costa Rican musician Fidel Gamboa, who died Sunday of a heart attack. Last night Costa Rica's Centro Nacional de Arte y Cultura was filled by fans who wanted to say their last goodbye front man of the musical group Malpaís.

Family, friends, fellow band members, colleagues an fans all lined up to bid their farewell to an immensily talented singer/songwriter.

The line began Monday afternoon and is to continue until 8am this morning, followed by funeral and burial later today.

Gamboa's talent was featured through his band Mailpaís which fused Latin American folk and jazz.

Gamboa was a graduate in history of art from Cuba’s University of Habana. In the mid nineties was awarded Costa Rica’s Aquileo Echeverría Prize for his work Inhombre - a strings, percussion and contralto quartet.

For decades had played with Costa Rica’s Adrián Goizueta experimental group. In Costa Rica, he did the soundtrack for both short and feature films including: Victor Vega’s Witches and Hilda Hidalgo’s Our lady´s passion and Of love and other demons

President Laura Chinchilla and the Ministro de Cultura de Costa Rica, Manuel Obregón, pay their respects on Monday.

Gamboa has recorded with Rubén Blades and Pedro Aznar among others.

Gamboa performed with the group for the last time on Saturday night at a concert in Heredia’s Club 212 with Guatemalan rock band Alex Nahual. He suffered a heart attack shortly after the show.