Legendary Mexican singer Jose Jose's legions of fans had not even&nbsp;finished processing the news of his death when a mystery exploded amid the mourning: where is the body of "The Prince of Song"? 
 
Jose Romulo Sosa Ortiz, a superstar singer of Latin love songs better known by his stage name, Jose Jose, died Saturday at age 71 outside Miami, according to the Mexican government. 
 
Emotional fans were still belting out his classic hits through tears in Claveria, his native Mexico City neighborhood, when the loss took a telenovela-like turn: Jose Jose's two oldest children, Jose Joel and Marysol, accused their younger half-sister and her mother of hiding his body. 
 
When Jose Joel and Marysol, whose mother was the second of Jose Jose's three wives, arrived Sunday at the funeral home where they thought his wake would be held, they were told their father's body was not there. 
 
They said their father's third wife, Sara Salazar, and her daughter Sarita refused to tell them where it is or what the funeral plans are. 
As comparisons to Elvis Presley began to fly -- is he REALLY dead? -- Jose Joel and Marysol went to the police station in Cutler Bay, Florida, to file a report on his missing remains. 
 
"If I don't see my dad's body I can't believe anything. Nothing," Marysol told journalists outside the station house. 
 
"To be clear: We aren't fighting for his money or his inheritance, we aren't interested in that," said Jose Joel. 
 
He called for an autopsy, urged the Mexican government to intervene and suggested that Sarita was acting "as if it were part of a contract" to sell exclusive media rights to their father's funeral. 
 
Telenovela villain&nbsp; 
 
In an exclusive interview with Spanish-language TV network Univision on Sunday, Sarita, 25, made an appeal for family unity and said it was "still very early to decide what will be done" with the remains. 
 
She blamed the confusion surrounding her father's body on US regulations on handling remains. 
 
"US laws are very strict. Unfortunately, not even his wife has been able to view the body," she wrote in a statement published Monday on the Instagram account of a Univision program called "El Gordo y La Flaca." 
 
"People of Mexico: we will bring him to Mexico so you can say goodbye. We promise you will be able to hold a wake for him," she added. 
 
Memes comparing Sarita to the most iconic villains of Mexico's melodramatic telenovela soap operas went viral on social networks. 
In Claveria, the singer's native barrio, fans gathered around a statue of him and chanted: "We want them to give us back Jose Jose!" 
"He was a great man, for his voice but above all for his sensitivity... He was a great man of the people," Rogelio Cuevas, an 86-year-old neighbor, told AFP. 
 
Mexico City authorities are planning a mass karaoke tribute to the late crooner Friday outside the Palace of Fine Arts. 
 
Velvety voice&nbsp; 
 
With his velvety voice and songs for jilted lovers, Jose Jose sold more than 120 million albums in a career spanning over five decades. 
 
The Latin Recording Academy, which gave him a lifetime achievement award in 2004 and named him its person of the year in 2005, said "his music and voice will forever reign in the history of Ibero-American music." 
 
Jose Jose was known for his openness about his personal life, including his romances and struggles with alcoholism.&nbsp;He quit drinking in 1993, but health issues led him to give up singing in the early 2000s.

He married three times and fathered three children. He wed his Cuban third wife, Salazar, in 1995, then moved to Miami with her. 
He had been hospitalized for pancreatic cancer, though Sarita told Univision he was in remission. 
 
Relations had long been strained between her and her half-siblings, who claim she prevented them from seeing their father in later years. 
 
Jose Jose had ceded the rights to his songs to Sarita, and Mexican media reported that she also convinced him to sign the rights to his life story over to her.

Legendary Mexican singer Jose Jose's legions of fans had not even finished processing the news of his death when a mystery exploded amid the mourning: where is the body of "The Prince of Song"?

Legendary Mexican singer Jose Jose's legions of fans had not even finished processing the news of his death when a mystery exploded amid the mourning: where is the body of "The Prince of Song"? Jose Romulo Sosa Ortiz, a superstar singer of Latin love songs better known by his stage name, Jose Jose, died Saturday at age 71 outside Miami, according to the Mexican government. Emotional fans were still belting out his classic hits through tears in Claveria, his native Mexico City neighborhood, when the loss took a telenovela-like turn: Jose Jose's two oldest children, Jose Joel and Marysol, accused their younger half-sister and her mother of hiding his body. When Jose Joel and Marysol, whose mother was the second of Jose Jose's three wives, arrived Sunday at the funeral home where they thought his wake would be held, they were told their father's body was not there. They said their father's third wife, Sara Salazar, and her daughter Sarita refused to tell them where it is or what the funeral plans are. As comparisons to Elvis Presley began to fly -- is he REALLY dead? -- Jose Joel and Marysol went to the police station in Cutler Bay, Florida, to file a report on his missing remains. "If I don't see my dad's body I can't believe anything. Nothing," Marysol told journalists outside the station house. "To be clear: We aren't fighting for his money or his inheritance, we aren't interested in that," said Jose Joel. He called for an autopsy, urged the Mexican government to intervene and suggested that Sarita was acting "as if it were part of a contract" to sell exclusive media rights to their father's funeral. Telenovela villain In an exclusive interview with Spanish-language TV network Univision on Sunday, Sarita, 25, made an appeal for family unity and said it was "still very early to decide what will be done" with the remains. She blamed the confusion surrounding her father's body on US regulations on handling remains. "US laws are very strict. Unfortunately, not even his wife has been able to view the body," she wrote in a statement published Monday on the Instagram account of a Univision program called "El Gordo y La Flaca." "People of Mexico: we will bring him to Mexico so you can say goodbye. We promise you will be able to hold a wake for him," she added. Memes comparing Sarita to the most iconic villains of Mexico's melodramatic telenovela soap operas went viral on social networks. In Claveria, the singer's native barrio, fans gathered around a statue of him and chanted: "We want them to give us back Jose Jose!" "He was a great man, for his voice but above all for his sensitivity... He was a great man of the people," Rogelio Cuevas, an 86-year-old neighbor, told AFP. Mexico City authorities are planning a mass karaoke tribute to the late crooner Friday outside the Palace of Fine Arts. Velvety voice With his velvety voice and songs for jilted lovers, Jose Jose sold more than 120 million albums in a career spanning over five decades. The Latin Recording Academy, which gave him a lifetime achievement award in 2004 and named him its person of the year in 2005, said "his music and voice will forever reign in the history of Ibero-American music." Jose Jose was known for his openness about his personal life, including his romances and struggles with alcoholism. He quit drinking in 1993, but health issues led him to give up singing in the early 2000s. He married three times and fathered three children. He wed his Cuban third wife, Salazar, in 1995, then moved to Miami with her. He had been hospitalized for pancreatic cancer, though Sarita told Univision he was in remission. Relations had long been strained between her and her half-siblings, who claim she prevented them from seeing their father in later years. Jose Jose had ceded the rights to his songs to Sarita, and Mexican media reported that she also convinced him to sign the rights to his life story over to her.

Late Mexican superstar Jose Jose's body goes missing

Mexican singer Jose Jose, whose powerful, romantic ballads captivated Latin America for more than half a century, died on Saturday. 
 
Mexico's Culture Ministry expressed its condolences in a statement, calling Jose Jose, whose real name was Jose Romulo Sosa Ortiz, "one of Mexico's most loved voices." 
 
Jose Jose received several Grammy nominations, sold more than 250 million albums and was once courted by music legend Frank Sinatra, who wanted to win him for his own label. 
 
He is often considered Mexico's most successful singer and was also an occasional actor. "It is sad, his passing," Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters. 
 
Mexico City residents gathered for an impromptu tribute at a statue of the singer, laying wreaths, and singing his songs. Some were in tears. 
 
'The Prince of Song',&nbsp;as the Mexican was affectionately called by his fans, was born into a family of musicians and raised in Mexico City. 
 
Son of tenor Jose Sosa Esquivel and pianist Margarita Ortiz Pensado, Jose Jose began his musical career as a child: he debuted in the school choir and in 1963 formed a musical trio formally starting his career at age 15. 
 
Initially, he appeared in nightclubs and even formed a jazz and bossa nova group in which he played the double bass; later, he scored a contract with the Mexican subsidiary of the international label RCA Victor. 
 
In 1969, he released his first album under the pseudonym of "Jose Jose." The singer said later that his artistic name was inspired by the name of his father, who died in 1968 of alcoholism. 
 
Jose Jose conquered the Spanish-speaking world with the interpretation of 'El Triste'&nbsp;at the 1970 Latin Song Festival that took place in the Mexican capital. It became the performance that catapulted him to stardom. 
 
The sudden fame also brought negative consequences. Like his father, he fell into alcoholism and had to take some time out. He returned to the stage in 1971 but continued to suffer from alcoholism for 30 more years. 
 
The 1980s became the most successful decade of his career, during which he sold two million copies of his album 'Secrets'&nbsp;in just a few weeks while also making his debut in the cinema. 
 
But his dipsomania and lack of rest irreparably damaged his vocal cords, forcing him to undergo several operations that failed to restore them. In 2007, he also suffered a facial paralysis. 
 
As a result of his alcohol addiction, Jose Jose`s health deteriorated rapidly since the 1990s. Even so, supported by his wife, Cuban Sarita Salazar, Jose Jose recovered and continued his career. In recent years he gained a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 
 
Mexican broadcaster Televisa reported the singer died in Miami at 71 after complications following treatment for pancreatic cancer. Two years ago he announced that he had a tumor in the pancreas that was being treated with chemotherapy. 
 
Many of his works inspired a younger generation of artists and musicians, including Latin pop star Julio Iglesias, who interpreted Jose Jose`s first big hit 'The Ship of Oblivion'. 
 
His son Jose Francisco, known as Jose Joel, who is also a musician, changed his profile picture on Twitter to a black ribbon. His daughters Marysol and Sara have also followed the family tradition into music.

Mexican singer Jose Jose, whose powerful, romantic ballads captivated Latin America for more than half a century, died on Saturday. Mexico's Culture Ministry expressed its condolences in a statement, calling Jose Jose, whose real name was Jose Romulo Sosa Ortiz, "one of Mexico's most loved voices.

Mexican singer Jose Jose, whose powerful, romantic ballads captivated Latin America for more than half a century, died on Saturday. Mexico's Culture Ministry expressed its condolences in a statement, calling Jose Jose, whose real name was Jose Romulo Sosa Ortiz, "one of Mexico's most loved voices." Jose Jose received several Grammy nominations, sold more than 250 million albums and was once courted by music legend Frank Sinatra, who wanted to win him for his own label. He is often considered Mexico's most successful singer and was also an occasional actor. "It is sad, his passing," Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters. Mexico City residents gathered for an impromptu tribute at a statue of the singer, laying wreaths, and singing his songs. Some were in tears. 'The Prince of Song', as the Mexican was affectionately called by his fans, was born into a family of musicians and raised in Mexico City. Son of tenor Jose Sosa Esquivel and pianist Margarita Ortiz Pensado, Jose Jose began his musical career as a child: he debuted in the school choir and in 1963 formed a musical trio formally starting his career at age 15. Initially, he appeared in nightclubs and even formed a jazz and bossa nova group in which he played the double bass; later, he scored a contract with the Mexican subsidiary of the international label RCA Victor. In 1969, he released his first album under the pseudonym of "Jose Jose." The singer said later that his artistic name was inspired by the name of his father, who died in 1968 of alcoholism. Jose Jose conquered the Spanish-speaking world with the interpretation of 'El Triste' at the 1970 Latin Song Festival that took place in the Mexican capital. It became the performance that catapulted him to stardom. The sudden fame also brought negative consequences. Like his father, he fell into alcoholism and had to take some time out. He returned to the stage in 1971 but continued to suffer from alcoholism for 30 more years. The 1980s became the most successful decade of his career, during which he sold two million copies of his album 'Secrets' in just a few weeks while also making his debut in the cinema. But his dipsomania and lack of rest irreparably damaged his vocal cords, forcing him to undergo several operations that failed to restore them. In 2007, he also suffered a facial paralysis. As a result of his alcohol addiction, Jose Jose`s health deteriorated rapidly since the 1990s. Even so, supported by his wife, Cuban Sarita Salazar, Jose Jose recovered and continued his career. In recent years he gained a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mexican broadcaster Televisa reported the singer died in Miami at 71 after complications following treatment for pancreatic cancer. Two years ago he announced that he had a tumor in the pancreas that was being treated with chemotherapy. Many of his works inspired a younger generation of artists and musicians, including Latin pop star Julio Iglesias, who interpreted Jose Jose`s first big hit 'The Ship of Oblivion'. His son Jose Francisco, known as Jose Joel, who is also a musician, changed his profile picture on Twitter to a black ribbon. His daughters Marysol and Sara have also followed the family tradition into music.

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Late Mexican superstar Jose Jose's body goes missing

Jose Jose, one of Mexico's most-loved voices, dies at 71