Blu Cantrell

Blu Cantrell Profile:
Name: Blu Cantrell
Birth name: Tiffany Cobb
Born: March 16, 1976
Birth place: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Genres: R&B, soul
Occupations: Singer, songwriter, musician (drums and guitar) and producer

Tiffany Cobb was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1976. Her father was a Narragansett Native American and Cape Verdean, and played in the National Basketball Association. Susi Franco, her mother, of Italian descent, was a former Miss Rhode Island, actress, and jazz vocalist. Cantrell's parents split when she was a child, and she and her five siblings—Adam, Tino, Nicky, Kelli, and Summer—were raised by her mother in Rhode Island. At the age of 19 she worked as a nude model for Black Tail. She has defended this by saying: "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 is not making porn."
The reason the singer changed her name from Tiffany Cobb to Blu Cantrell is unknown.