Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cuban cigar guru exits, old 91

Rapper Keith "Guru" Elam, optimal lived as the former frontman of the group Gang Starr, died after a bad bout with cancer on April 19, giving seat a letter of the alphabet to his devotees and prompting an discharge of love on the Earth Wide Web.


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Guru and his Gang Starr collaborator DJ Premier served define the complete of New York's tube hip hop scene in the 1990s, matching to MTV.


"Their unique rank united Premier's product pallet, which heeled heavily along sampled jazz records and scratched vocals along the choirs, with Guru's uncompromising rhymes," MTV's Gil Kaufman studies. MTV takes put up a collection of audiences with Guru, taking one in which he hashes out hip hop's influence connected pop culture.


A tobacco plant grower whose works established some of Cuba's nigh renowned results used in the country's cigar product makes passed of cancer, aged 91.


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


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


"He once stated me he was a millionaire because he had a million friends all over the worldwide," he noted.


One of the agriculturist's grandsons nowadays runs his farm, with Robaina cigars marketed the planetary over in junction with Habanos and the Imperial tobacco plant grouping, which is based in London.


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

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