Laurel Yurchick (born June 1, 1974), known as Icy Blu, is an American recording artist who had a brief

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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. "Pump It (Nice an' Hard)", which samples

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's " Push It", reached the top 10 in AustraliaAustralian (

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) peaks: *Top 50 peaks: *Top 100 peaks: and New Zealand, and was the 40th highest-selling single of 1991 in Australia.

Personal life

In April 2021, the

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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. 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

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, with the Judge recommending incarceration at

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, followed by four years of supervised release under the supervision of the

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Discography

Albums

Singles

References

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