Rising to prominence while performing with the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie has become an international phenomenon. Her sultry voice and lyrics, combined with her sexual charisma, has made her a major draw for fans that loved her work with the Peas. She continues to bring a unique flavor to the hip-hop, R&B and pop music industries, blending a variety of styles in her music and producing hit singles that her fans have fallen in love with.Though she's only become a household name since 2003, when she received mass media exposure of her work with the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie has been around the music industry since she was a girl. Born Stacy Ferguson, she worked in commercials before getting a highly visible role on the hit Nickelodeon T.V. show Kids Incorporated. The show was an incubator for talent, also yielding starts to the careers of Jennifer Love Hewitt and Marta Merrero, better known as the pop star Martika. The show was about an all-kid pop band, offering plenty of opportunity for Fergie and her co-stars to show off their vocal talents.Fergie would go on to work in Martika's back-up band and the teen pop group Wild Orchid during the ‘90s before finding her place with the Black Eyed Peas. Merging seamlessly into the hip-hop group, she performed on their 2003 record Elephunk, which provided the single "Let's Get it Started," undoubtedly one of their biggest hits yet. In 2005, they'd score a bigger hit on Monkey Business with "My Humps."Around this time Fergie embarked on her own solo career, releasing The Dutchess in 2006. It proved to be a major hit with those who loved her in the Black Eyed Peas-that was no surprise. But it also established her as a unique and talented performer in her own right, and gave her the chance to shine on all its 13 tracks. Singles like "London Bridge" and "Clumsy" were big hits, and attracted a new group of fans to Fergie's brand of hip-hop.
