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- (Cancun '07) MTV performance at The City Beach Club, American Eagle performance at The City
Stacey Ann Ferguson began her career in 1983 as the voice of Sally Brown in the children's cartoon series Charlie Brown. Shortly afterwards at the age of eight, she made her first appearance on the variety television program Kids Incorporated. Since, Fergie has blossomed into a pop icon with both the Black Eyed Peas and as a recent solo artist. She performed for Spring Breakers in Cancun during the 2007 American Eagle Concert Series that also featured Ludacris. StudentCity.com travelers got to see Fergie perform at The City and at MTV's daytime concert series.
Fergie is an American pop/R&B singer, songwriter and actress who got an early start in the entertainment industry. Stacey Ferguson was born in Hacienda Heights, California to Terri Gore and Patrick Ferguson with one sister who is now an actress. She came from a strict Roman Catholic upbringing. During her teen years attending Glen A. Wilson High School, Ferguson was involved in various gangs in her home town leading to further drug addictions. Her early start in the industry as a child actress, eventually led to the music industry where she began her true recognized success.
Music Career
During her teen years, finding time in-between being a child star and her small career as a cartoon voice, she decided to put her voice to greater lengths as a singer of 1994’s pop group Wild Orchid, which she fronted along with former Kids Incorporated members, Stefanie Ridel and Renee Ilene Sandstrom. Writing songs as early as high school together, they received the help from songwriter Bobby Sandstrom. They signed with Sony Publishing as a group called NRG, but for legal reasons was forced to change their name to Wild Orchid. As Wild Orchid, they signed with RCA Records in 1994. The group released their self-titled debut album Wild Orchid in 1997 featuring the Billboard hit "Talk to Me," which was included in the hit movie Fools Rush In. They toured vigorously on the album along side with N*Sync and 98 degrees. The video and single “Talk to Me” received recognition and awarded the group nominations within Billboard, The Soul Awards, and The American Music Awards. The group released two more albums and supported them touring along side Cher and Cindy Lauper, which was very successful. The group has recorded an album entitled FIRE, but the record company refused to release it due to the industries change. Because of the frustration with the record companies and failure of the groups final record, Fergie began to use crystal methadone and checked into rehab.
After overcoming the drug addiction Fergie became the lead singer and sole writer for the already formed group The Black Eyed Peas. They released their major label hit “Let’s Get Retarded.” The track gained the group worldwide success and also captured the attention of many companies who later purchased the song for TV commercials.
On September 19, 2006 Fergie released her debut solo album entitled The Dutchess. The album had many Billboard top hits such as "London Bridge", "Glamorous", and "Big Girls Don't Cry" She continues her success today as a solo artist, a member of The Black Eyed Peas and still, as an actress.
Acting Career
She stared in a music oriented children's show called Kids Incorporated, created by Thomas W. Lynch and Gary Biller in 1983. The show was never picked up by a major broadcasting channel, forcing it to be pushed around time slots on various stations. This eventually became the reason for the shows cancellation in the mid 1980’s. The show continued to try its success in the early 90’s with the Disney Channel, however, with the loss of Fergie and the original cast, the show was handicapped, leading it to a second cancellation.
After Kids Incorporated, Ferguson continued in Hollywood doing various cartoon voices. Her voice can be recognized as Sally Brown of the Peanuts Gang and Charlie Brown. Her voice was featured on a number of Peanuts Gang animated films including It’s Flash Beagle, Charlie Brown, Snoopy’s Getting Married, Charlie Brown, and The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show during the 80’s.
She later continued her acting career with a cameo in the Nickelodeon show Rocket Power as a fictitious pop music star named Shaffika. Her biggest roles in film would include her action/horror roles in the film Poseidon and more recently, the Grindhouse production films directed by Quentin Tarantino.