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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.

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In 2001, the singer released her debut album, So Blu, which eventually was certified platinum. 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 Cantrell a Grammy nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, as well as 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.

In 2004, a compilation titled From L.A. to L.O. was released.

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.

In the summer of 2005, a music video for the previously unreleased song "The Cha Cha" was produced, but never released because Cantrell ended up dissatisfied with the final result.

Blu Cantrell has a new album coming spring of 2007

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.

Lately she has been seen with Kyle XY star Matt Dallas

Magazine controversy

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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:

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

| width="25" rowspan="2"| Year | width="100" rowspan="2"| Album | colspan="4"|Chart positions | colspan="2"|Sales and sertifications |

| width="60"| US 200 | width="80"| US R&B/Hip-Hop | width="60"| UK | width="60"| SUI | width="60"| US | width="60"| UK |

| 2001 | So Blu | align="center"| 8 | align="center"| 5 | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| [Platinum album|Platinum]](500,000) | align="center"| ? |

| 2003 | Bittersweet | align="center"| 37 | align="center"| 8 | align="center"| 20 | align="center"| 82 | align="center"| -(300,000) | align="center"| Silver(60,000) |

| 2005 | From L.A To L.O | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - |

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Singles

| width="28" rowspan="2"| Year | width="150" rowspan="2"| Title | colspan="6"| Chart positions | width="100" rowspan="2"| Album |

| width="50"| US 100 | width="50"| US R&B/Hip-Hop | width="50"| UK 75 | width="50"| SUI 100 | width="50"| AUT 75 | width="50"| FR 100 |

| 2001 | "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" | align="center"| 2 | align="center"| 6 | align="center"| 12 | align="center"| 77 | align="center"| - | align="center"| 47 | So Blu |

| 2001 | "I'll Find A Way" | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | So Blu |

| 2001 | "Till I'm Gone" | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | So Blu |

| 2003 | "Breathe" (featuring Sean Paul) | align="center"| 70 | align="center"| 83 | align="center"| 1 (4) | align="center"| 5 | align="center"| 11 | align="center"| 13 | Bittersweet |

| 2003 | "Sleep In The Middle" | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"|

|align="center"| - | align="center"| - | Bittersweet |

| 2004 | "Make Me Wanna Scream" (featuring Ian Lewis of Inner Circle) | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| 24 | align="center"| 60 | align="center"| 68 | align="center"| - | Bittersweet |

| 2004 | "Round Up" (with Lady May) | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | Bittersweet |

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Sales and certifications

| align="left"|Year | align="left"|Single | align="left"|Country | align="left"|Certificator | align="left"|Certification | align="left"|Sales |

| align="left"|2001 | align="left"|Hit 'Em Up Style | align="left"|Australia | align="left"|ARIA | align="left"|Gold | align="left"|35,000 |

| align="left"|2003 | align="left" rowspan="2"|Breathe'' | align="left"|United Kingdom | align="left"|BPI | align="left"|Silver | align="left"|200,000 |

| align="left"|2003 | align="left"|Australia | align="left"|ARIA | align="left"|Gold | align="left"|35,000 |

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Song appearances

| width="28" rowspan="2"| Year | width="150" rowspan="2"| Title (main artist) | colspan="3"| Chart positions | width="100" rowspan="2"| Album |

| width="50"| US 100 | width="50"| US R&B/Hip-Hop | width="50"| UK 75 |

| 2001 | "Round Up" (Lady May) | align="center"| - | align="center"| 26 | align="center"| - | Bittersweet 1 |

| 2001 | "U Remind Me" [Remix] (Usher, Method Man) | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | The Dome, Vol. 19 |

| 2004 | "Take My Heart" (Kool & the Gang) | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | align="center"| - | The Hits: Reloaded |

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*1 "Round Up" is featured on the Australian and European version of the Bittersweet album. |

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References

*Howell, Stephen. "Blu Cantrell bio". Accessed Jun. 16, 2005.

*Top 40 world charts

*Official website

*''Blu Cantrell'' on MTV

*''Blu Cantrell'' at AskMen.com

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