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Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts, Ran­dall Mitchell, has paid trib­ute to Su­san Maicoo, de­scrib­ing her as one of the most icon­ic fig­ures in this coun­try’s so­ca parang are­na.

Maicoo, known for her hit song Tri­ni Christ­mas, died at the age of 62 on Sun­day af­ter be­ing ad­mit­ted to hos­pi­tal.

She had been ail­ing since Feb­ru­ary. She was be­ing treat­ed at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and had been dis­charged on March 14.