Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cuban cigar guru passes, aged 91

Rapper Keith "Guru" Elam, optimal known as the former frontman of the group Gang Starr, died after a bad bout with cancer connected April 19, leaving seat bottom a alphabetic character to his buffs and moving an discharge of love along the humans Wide Web.


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Guru and his Gang Starr cooperator DJ Premier served define the sound of New York's secret hip hop picture in the 1990s, notifiable to MTV.


"Their unique sound compounded Premier's production pallette, which heeled heavily connected sampled jazz records and scratched vocals on the refrains, with Guru's hardline rhymes," MTV's Gil Kaufman reports. MTV gives put up a collection of audiences with Guru, taking on one in which he talks about hip hop's influence along pop culture.


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


Alejandro Robaina - some an essential figurehead in the industriousness that one of the Caribbean island's top smoke-filled brands was named after him - had, reportable to local radio announcers, been a "victim of a sombre illness".


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


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


One of the agriculturist's grandsons now 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 fresh news from the cigar planetary included the launch of a new smoke designed specifically for women.

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