Stacy Ann Ferguson, or Fergie, as the musical world knows her as the lead female vocalist for The Black Eyed Peas. Currently however she’s trying to carve a niche for herself with a solo career and released her first album ‘The Dutchess’ in 2006.Beginning her career as a child actress in Kids Incorporated, Fergie later went on to form Wild Orchid. The band did well for sometime but soon failed landing Fergie into an emotional crisis. Addicted to drugs like Ecstasy, Fergie herself felt she was going crazy and realized she needed to get back to her career. She recorded five songs for The Black-Eyed Peas and was then signed on as a permanent member. In 2006, Fergie reappeared as an actress on Poseidon.
Cashing on the popularity and success of two Black-Eyed Peas albums, Fergie decided to take a stab at a solo career and released ‘The Dutchess’ . However, BEP fans needn’t worry. Fergie assures everyone that she will manage both equally well and she is not leaving BEP. ‘The Dutchess’ in fact has fellow BEP member will.i.am on board for production duties. However, Fergie adds to it her own talent, her own style and mode of delivery which can be seen in her new single “London Bridge” where we see her rapping. And of course she attempts a fresh new sound as she has worked with a number of talented people on ‘The Dutchess’. All the BEP members make guest appearances apart from other greats such as Ludacris (“Glamorous”), B-Real of Cypress Hill in “Thriller Man”, which is a homage to Cypress Hill’s “How I Could Just Kill a Man” and Rita Marley on a reggae song called “Mary Jane’s Shoes”, to the tune of Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry”. In “Here I Come”, she sings along with The Temptations while “Fergalicious” is all about hot she is!
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