Icy Blu

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Icy Blu

| image =

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| birth_name = Laurel Yurchick{{Citation | last = Routhier | first = Ray | date = 15 July 1991 | title = Icy Blu hits charts with soft rap song | periodical = Austin American-Statesman }}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|6|1 |mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Austin, Texas

| genre = Pop-rap

| occupation = Rapper, singer

| years_active = 1991–1992

| label = Giant Records

}}

Laurel Yurchick (born June 1, 1974), known as Icy Blu, is an American recording artist who had a brief pop career in the early 1990s.

Career

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, peaking at numbers 78 and 46, respectively.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/icy-blu/chart-history/HSI|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104035643/https://www.billboard.com/music/icy-blu/chart-history/HSI|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 4, 2019|title=Billboard > Icy Blu Chart History > The Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2019-11-04}} "Pump It (Nice an' Hard)", which samples Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It", reached the top 10 in AustraliaAustralian (ARIA) peaks:

Top 50 peaks: {{cite web|url=https://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Icy+Blu|title=australian-charts.com > Icy Blu in Australian Charts|publisher=Hung Medien|access-date=2019-04-26}}
Top 100 peaks: {{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia|edition=pdf|page=135}} and New Zealand,{{cite web|url=https://charts.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Icy+Blu|title=charts.nz > Icy Blu in New Zealand Charts|publisher=Hung Medien|access-date=2019-04-26}} and was the 40th highest-selling single of 1991 in Australia.{{cite web|url=https://www.ariacharts.com.au/annual-charts/1991/singles-chart|title=1991 ARIA Singles Chart|publisher=ARIA|access-date=2019-04-26}}

Personal life

In 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.{{Citation|title=21 Arrested on Federal Drug Trafficking Charges Filed in Austin|date=April 9, 2021|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/21-arrested-federal-drug-trafficking-charges-filed-austin|archive-date= May 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509050932/https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/21-arrested-federal-drug-trafficking-charges-filed-austin|publication-place=}}{{Citation|title=21 arrested, accused of trafficking meth in Texas|date=Apr 10, 2021|url=https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/21-arrested-accused-of-trafficking-meth-in-texas/|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506063356/https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/21-arrested-accused-of-trafficking-meth-in-texas/|publication-place=}} 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.{{Citation|title=Judgment and Commitment – #844 in United States v. Sealed (W.D. Tex., 1:21-cr-00048)|date=February 1, 2022|url=https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59896665/844/united-states-v-sealed/|archive-date= May 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531035525/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59896665/844/united-states-v-sealed/|publication-place=}}

Discography

=Albums=

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rowspan="2"\| Album ! rowspan="2"\| Details ! rowspan="1"\| Peak chart positions
width="35"\| AUS {{cite web\|url=https://i.imgur.com/iNZBfjK.png\|title=The ARIA Australian Top 100 Albums Chart – Week Ending 27 Oct 1991 (61–100) (from The ARIA Report No. 92)\|publisher=Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA)\|access-date=2016-09-05}}{{cite Ryan\|page=135}}
scope="row"\|Icy Blu \| Released: October 1991 Label: Giant Records, Reprise, Warner Format: CD, Cassette, LP \| 100

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rowspan="2"| Album

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{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/iNZBfjK.png|title=The ARIA Australian Top 100 Albums Chart – Week Ending 27 Oct 1991 (61–100) (from The ARIA Report No. 92)|publisher=Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA)|access-date=2016-09-05}}{{cite Ryan|page=135}}

scope="row"|Icy Blu

Released: October 1991
Label: Giant Records, Reprise, Warner
Format: CD, Cassette, LP

| 100

=Singles=

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rowspan="2"\| Year ! rowspan="2"\| Single ! colspan="3"\| Peak chart positions ! rowspan="2"\| Album
style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="35"\| US ! width="35"\| AUS ! width="35"\| NZ
rowspan="2"\| 1991 \| align="left"\|"Pump It (Nice an' Hard)" \| 78 \| 8 \| 4 \| align="left" rowspan="2"\| Icy Blu
align="left"\|"I Wanna Be Your Girl" \| 46 \| 88 \| 15

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rowspan="2"| 1991

| align="left"|"Pump It (Nice an' Hard)"

| 78