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Blu Cantrell

Blu Cantrell (born Tiffany Cobb on October 1, 1975 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American R&B singer. She was born into a biracial family of jazz enthusiasts. She and her five siblings were born of a caucasian american mother who is a Jazz singer and an african-american father who was a NBA player.

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.

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.

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. More controversy followed after the release of Bittersweet, which featured a DVD with an interview with Wendy Williams mentioning a past relationship with rapper Jay-Z. This sparked several rumors of tension between Cantrell and singer Beyoncé Knowles, who is currently (as of 2005) dating the rapper. The rumors were denied by both parties. Blu also had difficulty to seem serious after she posed nude for Stuff Magazine and Playboy. The singer has said to the press: «I have posed nude in the past and I will in the future, I'm no making porn, porn is when you do a video of sex. Posing nude isnot making porn». But one thing glorified Blu's pictures for Playboy: she was only the third african-american of origins woman who posed for the famous magazine.

Discography

Albums

  • So Blu (2001)
  • Bittersweet (2003)
  • From L.A. To L.O. (2004)
  • Baby Blu (2005)

Singles

  • "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" (2001) #2 US
  • "Till I'm Gone" (2001)
  • "I'll Find A Way" (2001)
  • "Waste My Time" (featuring L.O.) (2002)
  • "Round Up" (featuring Lady May) (2002)
  • "Breathe" (Original Version) (2003)
  • "Breathe" (featuring Sean Paul) (2003) #1 UK
  • "Sleep In The Middle" (2003)
  • "Make Me Wanna Scream" (featuring Ian Lewis of Inner Circle) (2004)
  • "The Cha Cha" (2005)

Videos

  • "Hit' Em Up Style (Oops!)"
  • "Round Up"
  • "Breathe"
  • "Breathe" remix
  • "Make Me Wanna Scream"
  • "The Cha Cha"

Track listings of albums

So Blu

  1. "Waste My Time" (featuring L.O.)
  2. "Hit' Em Up Style (Oops!)"
  3. "Till I'm Gone"
  4. "U Must B Crazy"
  5. "The One"
  6. "I'll Find A Way"
  7. "Swingin'"
  8. "10,000 Times"
  9. "When I Needed You"
  10. "All You Had To Say"
  11. "Can't Believe"
  12. "So Blu"
  13. "Blu Is A Mood"

Bittersweet

  1. "I Love You"
  2. "Sleep In The Middle"
  3. "Unhappy"
  4. "Impatient" (featuring Lil' Kim & Fat Joe)
  5. "Breathe" (featuring Sean Paul)
  6. "Risk It All"
  7. "Don't Wanna Say Goodbye"
  8. "Happily Ever After"
  9. "Holding On To Love"
  10. "Let Her Go"
  11. "Make Me Wanna Scream (featuring Ian Lewis of Inner Circle)
  12. "No Place Like Home"

From L.A. To L.O.

  1. "Make Me Wanna Scream"
  2. "Girl Please" (feat. Troy Cash)
  3. "Ready" (feat. Tony DeNiro)
  4. "Can't Go For That"
  5. "Straight Rider" (feat. Snoop Dogg)
  6. "Spank My A**" (feat. Missy Elliott)
  7. "Lady" (feat. Dirt-T)
  8. "I Got A Man"
  9. "Roll-Up" (feat. The Brigade)
  10. "My My My" (feat. Troy Cash)
  11. "Be Grateful"


===Baby Blu=== (actually not released)

References

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