Enduring as a innovator in today's music world against a myriad of commericially-oriented studio voices is no serene task, especially for an artist with an inbred ability to take any sony and make it sound like a harmonious cantata of lyrics and soulful tones being shared with the world through the mouth of a prophet. When BLU opens his mouth to canter verse, every ear hearkens to his angelic modulation of every word known to the finest or hippest scholars. If you ask him his assessment of his musical flair he'll respond by saying, "I don't take this voice for granted by any means. I'm often amaze myself by what comes out of my mouth every time I sing a verse or listen to myself."
BLU, whose musical genre can best be described as a southern-style cocktail served straight-up with a splash of the forgotten blues, jazz, gospel and down-home soul sound, added with a twist of contemporary R&B; was exposed at an early age to some of the music world's phenomenal talents such as the legendary Scatman Carruthers (with whom BLU's father Jewel was vocal partners), B.B. King, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor and Bobby Blue Bland. He says that , "one of the reasons I got my nickname 'Blu' was because I always sang the blues as a child." If you listen closely to any one of his songs, you can hear the influes of any of these folks, yet BLU's music is clearly uniquely his own.
BLU, whose musical genre can best be described as a southern-style cocktail served straight-up with a splash of the forgotten blues, jazz, gospel and down-home soul sound, added with a twist of contemporary R&B; was exposed at an early age to some of the music world's phenomenal talents such as the legendary Scatman Carruthers (with whom BLU's father Jewel was vocal partners), B.B. King, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor and Bobby Blue Bland. He says that , "one of the reasons I got my nickname 'Blu' was because I always sang the blues as a child." If you listen closely to any one of his songs, you can hear the influes of any of these folks, yet BLU's music is clearly uniquely his own.
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