Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cuban cigar guru passes, aged 91

Rapper Keith "Guru" Elam, best lived as the former frontman of the group Gang Starr, died after a galore bout with cancer along April 19, going seat a alphabetic character to his buffs and inspiring an spring of love along the Earth Wide Web.


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Guru and his Gang Starr collaborator DJ Premier assisted define the complete of New York's underground hip hop view in the 1990s, reportable to MTV.


"Their unique complete combined Premier's product pallet, which ran heavily on sampled jazz records and scratched vocals along the refrains, with Guru's hard-line rhymes," MTV's Gil Kaufman reports. MTV makes put up a collection of audiences with Guru, accepting one in which he hashes out hip hop's influence along pop culture.


A tobacco grower whose cultivates broke some of Cuba's nearly renowned leaves used in the country's cigar yield makes died of cancer, aged 91.


Alejandro Robaina - such an grand figurehead in the diligence that one of the Caribbean island's top smoke brands was named after him - had, notifiable to local radio announcers, been a "victim of a sombre illness".


His going was confirmed by a family friend, Sergio Hernandez, who recalled the "big heart" of Mr Robaina.


"He once told me he was a millionaire because he had a billion friends all over the planetary," he noted.


One of the agriculturist's grandsons instantly runs his farm, with Robaina cigars marketed the earth over in connective with Habanos and the Imperial tobacco plant group, which is based in London.


Other rising news from the cigar earth included the launch of a new smoke designed specifically for women.

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