Career
Around 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 freed her debut album, And so Blu, inside 2001. It featured a hit individual "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)", which peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. A lone earned Blu ii Grammy nominations for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song. She likewise was crowned Lady Of Soul of the season 2001 & won American Music Awards nominations.

Around 2003, she released her 2nd album, Bittersweet, which spawned a individual Breathe, the collaboration by having Sean Paul, which peaked at #1 for four weeks in the UK, despite failing to reach a top L in the U.S. Bittersweet didn't perform too on the stock and index charts when her dehowever album but did earn Cantrell the 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 great deal of fashion shows from either Los Angeles to New York City and Atlanta. Blu co-hosted MOBO (Music Of Black Origin) Awards of 2003. She has won Three Grammy Awards and 2 American Music Awards prizes. She has performed at Teen Choice Awards more than once & at much of MTV Awards. She has won the Brit Awards prize too.

Cantrell was the subject of disputation once exposure from either a brief period of operate as a nude model for Black Tail magazine in 1995 came to light. Supplementary contestation followed fallowing a release of Bittersweet, which featured the DVD by having an locate by using Wendy Williams mentioning a preceding relationship sustaining rapper Jay-Z. This sparked many hearsay of tension between Cantrell & singer Beyoncé Knowles, who is presently (when of 2005) dating the rapper. A rumour were denied by each parties. Blu as well got career difficulty when she posed nude for Stuff Magazine and Playboy. A singer has said to the click: "''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 isnot making porn''". However of these tool glorified Blu's pictures for Man-about-town: she was simply a third African-Our contries woman world health organization posed for the noted magazine.

In the summertime of 2005, she released a individual & streaming of "The Cha Cha"; and then far up to now, neither use been super successful. Disappointing Miss Cantrell's expectations, a song didn't email a Top 100 on the Hoarding. Let's say her fans come avid to hear her forthcoming album Binky users Blu which is supposed to exist as freed in her fresh Recording Company Know Music.

Discography
Albums
And so Blu (2001) Bittersweet (2003) From either L.The. To L.O. (2004) ''Hit'Em Higher Style: Chart & Club Hits Of Blu Cantrell (2005) Child Blu (2005)

Singles
"Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" (2001) #2 US "Till I'm Gone" (2001) "I'll Find A Way" (2001) "The One" (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
#"Waste My Time" (featuring L.O.)