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Blu Moon- Biography Blu Moon is the underground hip hop artist sensation and secret weapon of DAE ONE Records, waiting to be unleashed on the mainstream music scene. Showcasing a hybrid style that is a part Battle rapper, part street conscious rapper, part R&B soul, and flavored with a little bit of Bahamas Reggae to give it that "everything-is-going-to-be-alright" feeling; Blu's music is all REAL and his sound is as unique as his message. A message that is challenging the hip hop ganags...

Blu Moon- Biography Blu Moon is the underground hip hop artist sensation and secret weapon of DAE ONE Records, waiting to be unleashed on the mainstream music scene. Showcasing a hybrid style that is a part Battle rapper, part street conscious rapper, part R&B soul, and flavored with a little bit of Bahamas Reggae to give it that "everything-is-going-to-be-alright" feeling; Blu's music is all REAL and his sound is as unique as his message. A message that is challenging the hip hop ganagsta persona with a positive alternative that's quickly winning over the hearts and minds of the street. Blu Moon was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and raised in Florida. It was there that he fell in love with music with influences ranging from traditional hip hop artists like 8-Ball&MJG, Trick Daddy, and Scareface, and included, as well, such diverse styles as Reggae great Bob Marley, Metal band Metallica, Alternative band: Foo Fighters, Blues legend Odes Redding and Classics artists like Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry. It was these open minded formative years that are ultimately responsible for the complexity that is Blu's unique sound which is taking hip hop to exciting new places and unexplored territory. Blu's talents can be traced back to his father, also a musician known as Moon Man. Never having met his father, the Moon Man still played a strong influencing role on Blu and it was his passing that served as the motivation behind Blu Moon changing his name from his previous epithet of Quin La. Blu was raised by his mother along with his brother and two sisters and moved to the US. Growing up in Florida Blu started rapping at the young age of 7, and when he was 17, wrote his first song "Blu Sky, White Clouds, Gray Smoke". At age 20, Blu signed his first record deal with Megabyte Records and since then he has opened up for such artists as Trina, Yin-Yang Twins, Icons, Kia, Money Mark from the Slip N Slide Crew, 8-Ball&MJG, Young Buck, TI and Young Jeezy. Sergio Giles of DAE ONE Records got a hold of Blu's Demo CD and immediately recognized the rare latent talent that was residing deep within the young musician, and signed him with DAE ONE in 2009. DAE ONE has been cultivating the young talent ever since, regulating his exposure with surgical precision and creating the optimal circumstances for a mass market introduction to begin the metamorphosis from underground phenomenon to mainstream superstar. Withholding such talent has not been easy but once fans hear his silky-smooth style with rhythm and rhyme that’s slick as axel grease… it will have been well worth the effort. Like many other hip hop sensations, Blu didn’t have it easy. Fate had him spend part of his formative years growing up in a crack house and witnessing the worst that inner city streets can throw at a young teenager trying to find his way in life. Blu can stare any gangsta rapper in the eye and say "I've been there too brother". However, the storyboard formulaic of the disillusioned street kid-turned gangsta, with a mind to exploit the criminal persona for hip hop stardom, does NOT register with Blu one iota. Unlike those who have become the street in order to beat it, Blu never surrendered to the pressures of surviving the streets, nor has he ever sold out to them. Blu looked at the same challenges, and with music as his sword, managed to pierce through the wall of negative forces that surrounded him. He wrote about his dreams and the things that inspire him, like struggling in his career or trying to find that perfect woman. Things that can resonate with every man and that people recognize as being real. Blu's message speaks to more people than any other hip hop artist and “gangsta wanna be-fan” because he's just a man, like you and me, chasing dreams like you and me. Blu's music can only be described accurately by combining no less than five different genera. He himself though, can be personified in just three simple words. He's "The People's Rapper."