: Blu Cantrell Background informationBirth nameTiffany CobbBornOctober 1, 1976Providence, Rhode Island, U.
Blu Cantrell (born Tiffany Cobb on October 1, 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American Grammy Nominated R&B singer.
Biography
Early life
Cantrell was born into a family of jazz enthusiasts from Providence, Rhode Island. She and her five siblings were born to an Italian American mother who is a jazz singer and an African American father who was an NBA basketball player. She was raised by her mother, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Music career
After several demo recordings Cantrell was discovered by Red Zone Entertainment heads Tab and Laney Stewart in early 2000. The producers promptly placed her to Antonio "L.A." Reid who offered the singer a contract with his label Arista Records after a successful audition. Afterwards Cantrell went straight into recording sessions with Dallas Austin, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, while - for a start - singing backup for artists such as Puff Daddy, Truth Hurts and Faith Evans.
In 2001, the singer released her Platinum So Blu certified debut album, So Blu. The longplayer saw major success when it peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, eventually selling over 800,000 copies in the United States. The album featured the hit single "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)", which peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and earned Blu a Grammy nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performancethe following year. Winning an American Music Awards nomination.
In 2003, Cantrell released her second album, Bittersweet. The record failed to reprise the success of 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. The album spawned 2 singles. With "Make Me Wanna Scream" and "Breathe", a collaboration with Sean Paul, though it failed to reach the top 50 in the U.S., it later peaked at #1 for four weeks in the UK. It eventually became one of the most successful singles of the year in both Europe and Australia.
2004 mixtape appeared From L.A. to L.O.
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". Ironically, "Breathe" regularly appears on lists of one-hit wonders in the UK, for example on TMF.
Summer of 2005 a Music Video for the previously unheard song, "The Cha Cha" appeared but is not going to be released due to Blu apparently not liking the video.
Many rumours have come and gone about Blu being in the studio recording a third album but so far there has been no official news confirming this.
Rumours concerning Blu had signed to Image Entertainment are false as I personally E-mailed them but to only get this response:
"Thank you for your inquiry. Unfortunately, Blu Cantrell is not signed
with Image Entertainment.
Thank you
Dedra L Dean
Customer Service Representative
Image Entertainment"
Personal life
In 2000 her sister was in a car accident when she was hit by a drunk driver on Atlanta's busiest highway, her sister was thrown from the car and hit the ground head first, and was in a coma for several weeks, but was able to pull out of it with slight memory loss. Blu says that it changed her outlook on life, and to take nothing for granted.
She has said that she suffered from bipolar disorder. [citation needed]
Lately she has been seen with Kyle XY star Matt Dallas
Magazine controversy
 Blu Cantrell on the cover of Black Tail magazine in 2002. 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:[citation needed]
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| 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 se . Posing nude is not making porn.
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Voice
In the opening track, "Waste My Time" from her debut album, So Blu.[IMB Biography] Cantrell hits notes in the seventh octave. According to an interview with Neil McCormick at smh.com.au, Cantrell mentions she has a 5 octave range, as well as her struggles to get noticed in the music business, "I'd get on stage and I'd sing and hit five octaves. I coulda did a backwards flip and they woulda sat there and gone, 'Hmm, I don't know!'
Discography
Albums
Singles
Sales and certifications
Song appearances
References
External links
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