Entre lágrimas y baile, verbeneros despidieron a 'Chicho Pijuán'

The tranquility of Los Olivos Cemetery, located on the Vía al Mar, was shattered yesterday at 11:05 a.m. by the powerful sound of the El Gran Pijuán turbo, a flamenco singer who unleashed the best of his repertoire to bid farewell to its creator, Luis Eljaiek, known within the festival culture as Chicho Pijuán. A white-skinned woman, concentrating on praying the rosary in front of a grave in garden number 2, put aside her ritual to focus her gaze on the crowd accompanying the coffin as it was being carried to the crematorium. The man who grew up in the La Alboraya neighborhood and died last Sunday at the age of 68 after suffering respiratory arrest.