Icy Blu (born Laurel Yurchick, June 1, 1974) is an American recording artist who had a brief pop career in the early 1990s.
Icy Blu | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Laurel Yurchick[1] |
| Born | June 1, 1974 Austin, Texas |
| Genres | Pop-rap |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper, singer |
| Years active | 1991–1992 |
| Labels | Giant Records |
Career
editIn 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, peaking at numbers 78 and 46, respectively.[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 40th highest-selling single of 1991 in Australia.[5]
Personal life
editIn April 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 1, 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]
Discography
editAlbums
edit| Album | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| AUS [9][10] | ||
| Icy Blu |
|
100 |
Singles
edit| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [2] |
AUS [3] |
NZ [4] | |||
| 1991 | "Pump It (Nice an' Hard)" | 78 | 8 | 4 | Icy Blu |
| "I Wanna Be Your Girl" | 46 | 88 | 15 | ||
References
edit- ^ Routhier, Ray (15 July 1991), "Icy Blu hits charts with soft rap song", Austin American-Statesman
- ^ a b "Billboard > Icy Blu Chart History > The Hot 100". Billboard. Archived from the original on November 4, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ a b Australian (ARIA) peaks:
- Top 50 peaks: "australian-charts.com > Icy Blu in Australian Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- Top 100 peaks: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 135.
- ^ a b "charts.nz > Icy Blu in New Zealand Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- ^ "1991 ARIA Singles Chart". ARIA. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- ^ 21 Arrested on Federal Drug Trafficking Charges Filed in Austin, April 9, 2021, archived from the original on May 9, 2021
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ 21 arrested, accused of trafficking meth in Texas, Apr 10, 2021, archived from the original on May 6, 2021
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Judgment and Commitment – #844 in United States v. Sealed (W.D. Tex., 1:21-cr-00048), February 1, 2022, archived from the original on May 31, 2023
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Albums Chart – Week Ending 27 Oct 1991 (61–100) (from The ARIA Report No. 92)". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 2016-09-05.
- ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 135.