Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cuban cigar guru passes, old 91

Rapper Keith "Guru" Elam, easiest loved as the former frontman of the group Gang Starr, passed after a bad bout with cancer along April 19, leaving bottom bottom a alphabetic character to his sports fans and motivating an spring of love on the reality Wide Web.


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


"Their unique good combined Premier's yield pallette, which heeled heavily on sampled jazz records and scratched vocals on the chorus lines, with Guru's hardline rhymes," MTV's Gil Kaufman stories. MTV gets put up a collection of questions with Guru, accepting one in which he talks over hip hop's influence along pop culture.


A tobacco grower whose cultivates gave some of Cuba's nearly renowned results used in the country's cigar product makes gone of cancer, aged 91.


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


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


"He once stated me he was a millionaire because he had a meg friends all over the world," he observed.


One of the agriculturist's grandsons directly runs his farm, with Robaina cigars marketed the man over in conjunction with Habanos and the Imperial baccy group, which is based in London.


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