内容摘要：Yeroshenko reported from Markhalivka, Ukraine. Associated Press writers Elise Morton in London, Ali Swenson in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and Volodymyr Yurchuk in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report.

Yeroshenko reported from Markhalivka, Ukraine. Associated Press writers Elise Morton in London, Ali Swenson in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and Volodymyr Yurchuk in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report.

In 1989, Pérez joined Wilfrido Vargas’ orchestra, which gave him the opportunity to launch his solo career in 1987. In 2022, Pérez released his latest album, “Hecho Esta.”His albums have gone gold and platinum in Venezuela and earned him the Orchestra and Merengue of the Year honors at the Soberano Awards, the Dominican music awards.

Following news that Pérez was one of the victims of the collapse, Vargas released a statement saying you can never really say goodbye to an artist like Pérez whose “legacy transcends time and space.”“His voice, powerful and full of life will continue to resonate in every corner of our Dominican Republic and beyond,” Vargas said. “Rubby was not just a singer; he was a symbol of courage, passion and artistic excellence.”Days before the collapse, was in New York City. At what would be his last performance in the U.S., he told fans he was exited to be traveling to Santo Domingo.

on Thursday in Santo Domingo’s National Theater.“He was a beloved man,” Martitza Martinez, 75, said in Spanish of Pérez, adding that she had attended three of his parties in the Dominican Republic, in part because her cousin was his car mechanic. “Performing live, he was excellent.”

Martinez joined other mourners Thursday outside the United Palace theatre where Pérez had once performed in Washington Heights, the center of the Dominican diaspora in New York City. Across from the palace, a poster of Pérez was taped to a tree, framed between Dominican flags above and candles below that bore the images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary.

Associated Press reporter Cedar Attanasio contributed.He worked seven days a week through most of the court’s term from October to early summer, staying at his Supreme Court office for more than 12 hours a day. He said he underwent an annual “intellectual lobotomy” at the start of each term because he had so little time to read for pleasure.

Souter rented an apartment a few miles from the court and jogged alone at Fort McNair, an Army installation near his apartment building. He was once mugged while on a run, an apparently random act.Souter returned to his well-worn house in Weare, New Hampshire, for a few months each summer and was given the use of an office in a Concord courthouse.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, smiles after speaking during a dedication ceremony at the State Supreme Courthouse in Concord, N.H., July 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, smiles after speaking during a dedication ceremony at the State Supreme Courthouse in Concord, N.H., July 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)