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Stacy Ferguson Stacy Ferguson a.k.a. Fergie really needs an introduction given her storming popularity in recent years. Her work as a vocalist for the Black Eyed Peas has been instrumental in the band's success. More so, her work as a solo artist, in her debut album "The Dutchess" has been very well received. The album spawned three U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number one singles and five Top 5 hits, ("Big Girls Don't Cry", "London Bridge", "Glamorous", "Fergalicious" and "Clumsy") making 'The Dutchess' the seventh album from a female artist to spawn five Top 5 hits. It might surprise some to know that Ferguson started her career as a child actress, appearing on the television program "Kids Incorporated". She was also the voice of Sally Brown in two Charlie Brown specials: "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown" in 1984, and "Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown" in 1985. She also voiced Sally in the 1985 version of "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show". Not long after, Ferguson began dabbling in music forming the female trio "Wild Orchid" along with Stefanie Ridel and Renee Sandstorm, one of Ferguson's co-stars on "Kids Incorporated". Wild Orchid released two albums, but after completing a third album, their record label declined to release it, and she left the group shortly thereafter. Her disappointment with Wild Orchid led to an addiction to crystal methamphetamine. Ferguson has quite often mentioned her youth as being quite troublesome alluding to her sex-and-drugs spree, and being "involved" with members of the Mexican gangs in Hacienda Heights, California. She was addicted to both crystal meth and ecstasy. In an interview with Time magazine about quitting her crystal meth addiction, she stated: "It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with," she says. "It's the drug that's addicting. But it's why you start doing it in the first place that's interesting. A lot of it was being a child actor; I learned to suppress feelings." In 2003, she bounced back into the music biz taking over the lead female vocal duties for the Black Eyed Peas, replacing background singer Kim Hill, who had left the group in 2000. She recorded five songs with the group before she was invited to join them permanently, and the rest is history. She has more recently sought to bounce back into acting, and has thus far appeared in the films, "Poseidon" and Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror". Ferguson is engaged to "Las Vegas" star Josh Duhamel. They met, and began dating, in September 2004 when she and her band appeared on Duhamel's show (in an episode titled "Montecito Lancers"), and more recently purchased a house together. Back to Stacy Fergusons Index |