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Blu Cantrell

Blu Cantrell on Bittersweet (2003)
Origin Providence, Rhode Island
Years active 2000 — present
Genre(s) R&B, Pop
Label(s) Arista
Blu Cantrell (born Tiffany Cobb on March 16, 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American R&B singer. She was born into a biracial family of jazz enthusiasts from Providence, Rhode Island. She and her five siblings were born of an Italian American mother who is a jazz singer and an African American father who was a NBA basketball player. She was raised by her mother.

She is a strict vegan & never wears costumes made out of animals.

Contents [hide]
1 Career
2 Voice
3 Discography
3.1 Albums
3.1.1 Officially unreleased albums
3.2 Singles
3.2.1 Other Charts
3.3 Specials
3.4 Music videos
4 References
5 External links

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Career
In 2000, Cantrell was discovered by an A&R executive and began singing backup for artists such as Puff Daddy, Truth Hurts and Faith Evans.

She released her debut album, So Blu, in 2001. It featured the hit single "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)", which peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The single earned Blu two Grammy nominations for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song. She also was crowned Lady Of Soul of the year 2001 and won American Music Awards nominations. On the date of August 31, 2001, So Blu was certified Gold, meaning it sold over 500.000 copies in the U.S. [1]

In 2003, she released her second album, Bittersweet, which spawned the single Breathe, a collaboration with Sean Paul, which peaked at #1 for four weeks in the UK, despite failing to reach the top 50 in the U.S. Bittersweet didn't perform as well on the charts as her debut album but did earn Cantrell a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Album and managed to enter the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart at #8.

Blu has hosted a lot of fashion shows from Los Angeles to New York City and Atlanta. Blu co-hosted MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards of 2003.

Cantrell was the subject of controversy when photos from a brief period of work as a nude model for Black Tail magazine in 1995 came to light. The singer has said to the press: "I have posed nude in the past and I will in the future, I'm not making porn, porn is when you do a video of sex. Posing nude is not making porn".

In the fall of 2005, Cantrell's smash #1 Hit "Hit'Em Up Style (Oops!)" appeared on a Canadian compilation CD entitled "One Hit Wonders". In the summer of 2005, Cantrell created her own label Baby Blu/Know Music & a new album entitled "From L.A. To L.O. " was released. Rumors says she has signed a record deal with Columbia Records.

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Voice
Blu posseses a 4 octave voice. She rarely uses her whistle register, the only song the whistle register can be found in is "Waste My Time" from her debut album, So Blu. In the song, Blu hits notes in the seventh octave, saying the word "right" in whistle register in the phrase "Who will treat me right?"

Blu is also known for singing her songs with great emotion, doing vocal acrobatics and belting in nearly every song.

 

Blu Cantrell Album - Bittersweet Lyrics

Blu Cantrell Album - So Blu Lyrics