Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cuban cigar guru exits, aged 91

Rapper Keith "Guru" Elam, best experienced as the former frontman of the grouping Gang Starr, gone after a careful bout with cancer along April 19, giving behind a letter to his fans and inspiring an run of love along the network.


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


"Their unique deep mixed Premier's product pallet, which leaned heavily along sampled jazz records and scratched vocals along the Greek choruses, with Guru's hard-line rhymes," MTV's Gil Kaufman stories. MTV gets put up a collection of interviews with Guru, taking one in which he talks over hip hop's influence on pop culture.


A tobacco plant grower whose crops yielded some of Cuba's nigh renowned provides used in the country's cigar output takes passed of cancer, aged 91.


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


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


"He once evidenced me he was a millionaire because he had a trillion friends all over the worldwide," he observed.


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


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

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