Mourners gather to say goodbye to local musician Omar Higgins
Local musicians, fans, friends and family sing "When the Saints Go Marching In" as they march in a Beale Street funeral procession to honor Memphis musician Omar Higgins. A crowd led Higgins' casket on April 30, 2019, second-line style to Clayborn Temple for a visitation and funeral service. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Joseph Higgins (right) welcomes mourners during a visitation and funeral on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, for his late brother, Omar Higgins, leader of the reggae band Chinese Connection Dub Embassy. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Tiffany Canerday (left) and Sandy Ellison (right) react as the casket of Memphis musician Omar Higgins is carried into Clayborn Temple for a visitation and funeral service on Tuesday, April 30, 1019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Members of Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) act as pallbearers for the Memphis musician Omar Higgins as mourners gather at Clayborn Temple on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, to honor the late leader of the reggae band Chinese Connection Dub Embassy. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Local musicians, fans, friends and family gather for a Beale Street funeral procession to honor musician Omar Higgins, who was leader of the reggae band Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and hardcore punk band Negro Terror. A crowd led Higgins' casket in a second-line style march to Clayborn Temple for a visitation and funeral service on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Laura Fackler (left) and Sandy Ellison embrace during a visitation for late Memphis musician Omar Higgins on April 30, 2019, at Clayborn Temple. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Local musicians, fans, friends and family gather for a Beale Street funeral procession to honor musician Omar Higgins, who was leader of the reggae band Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and hardcore punk band Negro Terror. A crowd led Higgins' casket on April 30, 2019, ion the second line style to Clayborn Temple for a visitation and funeral service. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Local musicians, fans, friends and family gather for a Beale Street funeral procession to honor musician Omar Higgins, who was leader of the reggae band Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and hardcore punk band Negro Terror. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Members of the local music community gathered to pay their respects to Memphis musician Omar Higgins during his funeral Tuesday at Clayborn Temple.
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