The magnificent setting of the Holy Trinity Cathedral was grossly underutilised on Saturday due to the few mourners who turned out to pay their respects to the late Shower Posse member Vivian Blake.

"Lawd man, a weh so much police a go? Them look more than the amount of persons coming to the funeral a de big man," a vendor outside the North Street institution said.

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More than 20 police personnel, barely more than the number of mourners, kept a keen eye on proceedings.

"A so it go, Vivian, a so it go. Yu gone but mi still love yu, because you was good to me although wi no related," an elderly woman muttered between sobs.

The most touching part of the service was when Madison Blake, the deceased's granddaughter, gave an innocent but splendid rendition of Halo. She moved some people to tears.

Blake was eulogised by his daughter Dominic as a very loving father who placed his family first and also touched the lives of many through his generosity.

"Some will remember him as a great person others will say something different; however, to us he is greatly missed we love him," she said.

"He was like a father and a friend to me, a person who was greatly misunderstood, a man who was humble but full of wisdom," said Jamila Ellis of the Sound System Association of Jamaica.

Others said the former St George's College old boy, who was a Marcus Garvey Scholarship winner at St Anne's Primary, was a bright person who went the wrong way.

Blake, 54, died at the University Hospital of the West Indies on March 21. He was interred at the May Pen Cemetery.