Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cuban cigar guru exits, old 91

Rapper Keith "Guru" Elam, better lived as the former frontman of the group Gang Starr, passed after a rank bout with cancer along April 19, leaving alone seat a varsity letter to his lovers and prompting an outpouring of love connected the world Wide Web.


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Guru and his Gang Starr collaborator DJ Premier served define the solid of New York's black hip hop shot in the 1990s, reported to MTV.


"Their unique deep blended Premier's yield pallet, which leaned heavily along sampled jazz records and scratched vocals on the chorus lines, with Guru's hard-line rhymes," MTV's Gil Kaufman stories. MTV features put up a collection of questions with Guru, taking on one in which he discusses hip hop's influence along pop culture.


A tobacco grower whose dresses yielded some of Cuba's nigh renowned provides used in the country's cigar product has gone of cancer, aged 91.


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


His running was confirmed by a home friend, Sergio Hernandez, who retrieved the "big heart" of Mr Robaina.


"He once said me he was a millionaire because he had a trillion friends all over the Earth," he mentioned.


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


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

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