Peggi Blue

Like many of today's top singers, Peggi Blu got her start in the church. At the age of three her
mother used to sit her on the stage where she would, in the words of someone who remembers
being there, "...sing up a storm!". By the time she was a teenager, she had toured all through the
Carolinas, and decided to try her luck in New York. For the next fifteen years she established
herself as one of New York's top background singers, backing up such stars as Stevie Wonder,
Luther Vandross, Irene Cara, The Crusaders, Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan, and many others.
All this ‘backing up’ led to a record deal in 1980 with MCA, resulting in the album "I Got Love".
This album yielded a single, "Dancing In The Streets", which reached #35 on Billboard's dance
music chart; the title song "I Got Love" was featured in the ABC movie "Off The Minnesota Strip"
(starring Hal Holbrook). Peggi also co-starred in two Broadway musicals - "The Wiz" (1983, with
Stephanie Mills) and "Marilyn, An American Fable" (1984, with director Kenny Ortega and star
Scott Bakula).
In 1986, though, she got her biggest break yet. Her agent submitted her to "Star Search". They
loved her. In only eight minutes and four shows (two minutes per song) Peggi Blu became the
1986 Grand Champion Female Vocalist, winning the $100,000.00 prize money.

This massive television exposure led to a huge recording contract with Capitol Records. Moving to
California, Peggi spent the rest of 1986 and most of 1987 working on "Blu Blowin'". This album did
very well in England, reaching as high as #4 on the club charts. It also received critical raves from
reviewers in Billboard, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, USA Today, and Entertainment
Tonight. TV appearances included "Entertainment Tonight", and "Good Morning America". A single,
"Tender Moments", stayed on Billboards' R & B charts for a respectable eight weeks, peaking at #28.
On January 1st, 2000, Peggi sang with one of the biggest stars in the world at the biggest, most
expensive concert ever - Barbra Streisand’s Millenium Concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
That event has been broadcast on FOX television repeatedly.
At President Clinton’s inauguration in Washington Peggi was personally requested to appear and sing.
She even got to ‘jam’ with the President at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Pasadena at an exclusive party
thrown by his friends.

In 1993 she released another single in England “Love Is The Magic”. It peaked at #9 on the Urban
Contemporary chart and continues to sell well throughout Europe. From December of 1996 to May
of 1997, Peggi headed to Germany to star in Michael Jackson’s Production of “Sisterella” - a successful
4-month long tour. A single from that show featuring Peggi was released by MJJ/Sony in Europe - “I
Got The Money”. In February of 1998 she returned to Germany to co-star with Linda Hopkins in a revue
“Wild Women Blues”. Peggi is a featured soloist on the title song to the Jean-Claude Van Damme
movie “Desert Heat”, as well as singing on the soundtracks to “Set It Off” (with Queen Latifa & Jada
Pinkett-Smith) and “Hurricane” (with Denzel Washington). She sings a duet with Gerald Alston on
the new “Manhattans” CD “Even Now”, and has performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra under Esa Peka-Salonen, and with the Memphis and Hawaiian Symphony Orchestras with
Burt Bacharach. Peggi has just finished up her new album - “Livin’ On Love”, being released initially in
the UK on Expansion/Sony Records.
Peggi has also added her talents to recordings of some very major stars: Quincy Jones (“Back On
The Block”), Tracy Chapman, Kylie Minogue, Aaron Neville, David Foster (“The 1996 & 2002 Olympics
Themes”), Brian Setzer, Young M.C., Barbra Streisand, Cherelle, Arif Mardin, Burt Bacharach, Gino
Vanelli, The Staple Singers, Phyllis Hyman, Sweet, Leonard Cohen, Philip Bailey of “Earth Wind &
Fire”, and a host of others.