And so tonight, Belizeans and Garinagu all over the world are mourning the passing of this great on. Like his most famous song "Naguya Nei" says, "I am moving on…" - and so he has. Today we spoke to family, friends and band members about his contribution. First, you'll hear from Barbara Norales who was a close friend of Nabor's. Today in Dangriga, she said Belize and the world have lost a great talent:..

Babara Norales, Friend of Nabor
"I got to enjoy the spiritual and personal side of him and then I'll use this to send condolences to the PG people and Belize, they have lost one of its greatest asset. The Garifuna people has lost something great and condolences to his daughter Marie who is also an artist and I hope that Darius and the people from PG continue with the Paul Nabor birthday every year in January."

Jules Vasquez
"We have his sketch of his personal history outlined, but what is a thing about his personal history that makes you say wow I didn't know that?"

Babara Norales, Friend of Nabor
"What I said wow on was when he told me about his boxing history that he was a boxer and he would tell me about the number of fights that he got into and he referred to his himself as "Terenshal" he was just a trouble person too. His life experience when he tells you the story, I think its interesting that you get to see the person and not the artist on the stage."

Musician and engineer Al Ovando also has a valuable perspective. He toured the world and recorded with Nabor over a period of many years. Today, also in Dangriga, he told us that the story of Belizean music has lost one of its most important chapters:..

Al Ovando
"When we got the word, I just thought about the whole life and history and music in Belize and the legend Paul Nabor. Everything becomes more difficult now to try to tell anybody else about the music of Belize and Paul Nabor was the pinnacle and the best example you could ever have when it comes to music from Belize."

And while it seems like we have always known him, Nabor was known mostly in the Garifuna community as a singer and songwriter. That was up until the late 90's when he was a part of Stonetree Record's groundbreaking album "Paranda". That brought him to the forefront and made his song Naguya Nei one of the most well-known recordings in all of Belize. Al Ovando discussed that seminal recording today:..

Al Ovando
"He was the first to lend himself to be recorded at that level; that level of production and distribution that happened with the Paranda album and thanks to Stonetree Records and Ivan and all the Panaderos who got together and insisted that the world needs to hear this. Naguya Nei is like I mean the anthem of the Garifuna people and the struggle of the people and the whole history of Belize. People that hears the song for the first time; he just steps on stage and once the guitar intro comes in, it's like everybody knows this song for like years and everybody gets up and just waiting for the song to begin and for Nabor to start singing and there is this energy I think that nobody else has. I've never seen it with any other musician or artist up to this time; he just steps on the stage and everybody gets up and like everybody knows Paul Nabor for years and this is like in new countries and we never questioned why, we just appreciate and we accept that phenomenon."

Later on you'll hear from his family who we spoke to today in Punta Gorda Town and from the man himself as we look back at excerpts of the groundbreaking documentary, "Three Kings"