Icy Blu | |
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Birth name | Laurel Yurchick [1] |
Born | Austin, Texas | June 1, 1974
Genres | Pop-rap |
Occupation(s) | Rapper, singer |
Years active | 1991–1992 |
Labels | Giant Records |
Icy Blu (born Laurel Yurchick, June 1, 1974) is an American recording artist who had a brief pop career in the early 1990s.
In 1991, Icy Blu released a self-titled album containing the singles "Pump It (Nice an' Hard)" and "I Wanna Be Your Girl". Both singles entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [2] "Pump It (Nice an' Hard)", which samples Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It", reached the top 10 in Australia [3] and New Zealand, [4] and was the fortieth highest-selling single of 1991 in Australia. [5]
In April of 2021, the United States Attorney's Office of the Western District of Texas announced that Yurchick was one of 21 people that had been indicted for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute kilogram quantities of methamphetamine in Texas and elsewhere from August 2019 to March 2021. [6] [7] Yurchick subsequently pleaded guilty to that charge on February 1st, 2022. U.S. District Judge Earl Leroy Yeakel III sentenced Yurchick to 121 months of confinement in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, with the Judge recommending incarceration at Federal Prison Camp, Bryan, followed by four years of Supervised Release under the supervision of the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System. [8]
Album | Details | Peak chart positions |
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Icy Blu |
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Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
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1991 | "Pump It (Nice an' Hard)" | 78 | 8 | 4 | Icy Blu |
"I Wanna Be Your Girl" | 46 | 88 | 15 |
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