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Blu Cantrell (born Tiffany Cobb on
October 1, 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a Grammy
Award-nominated R&B and soul singer.
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 debut album, So Blu,
which eventually was certified platinum. The record 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. The album also showcases her ability to go
into the whistle register with the song "Waste My
Time."
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 hit singles, these
being "Breathe" and "Make Me Wanna
Scream", of which the first is a collaboration with
Sean Paul. Though "Breathe" failed to reach
the top 50 in the U.S., it peaked at number one for four
weeks in the UK. It eventually became one of the most
successful singles of the year in both Europe and
Australia.
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. Also in 2005, Hit
'em Up Style: Chart and Club Hits was released without
any promotion in the U.S. It was a compilation/remix
album containing Cantrell's two biggest hits, some other
tracks from the former two albums and some remixes of
tracks featured on the first albums.
However, Cantrell has since continued working on her
yet-to-be-titled third album, scheduled for a 2007
release.
Magazine controversy: Cantrell was the subject of
controversy when photos of her aged 19 came to light
from a brief period of work as a nude model for Black
Tail magazine in 1995. |
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