Fergie is an
American pop/R&B singer-songwriter, actress, and rapper. She is a former member of the kids' television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the television show Great Pretenders. She is currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group the Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, releasing her debut album, The Dutchess, in 2006. The album has so far spawned three U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number one singles and five Top 5 hits, making The Dutchess the seventh album from a female artist to spawn five Top 5 hits.
Ferguson was born in Hacienda Heights, California, the daughter of Terri and Patrick Ferguson.She has one sister, Dana, who is an actress. Her parents are Roman Catholics of Irish, Scottish and Mexican descent.The daughter of devout Catholic schoolteachers, she was raised in a suburban area with strict Roman Catholic values while attending Glen A. Wilson High School and Mesa Robles Middle school.She is quoted as saying that as a child she was so hyperactive doctors wanted to put her on Ritalin until her mom vetoed the idea. Through dance school, her mom found her an agent and voiceover work, providing the voices for Lucy and Sally in Peanuts cartoons. From 1984 to 1989, she spent summers performing chart hits on the TV show Kids Incorporated.
As a child actress, Ferguson appeared on the television program Kids Incorporated for several years with Renee Sandstrom, who became a fellow member of Wild Orchid. On the show, the actress displayed her singing talents, singing Whitney Houston's "One Moment In Time". Ferguson's well-scrubbed image on that show presents quite a contrast with the "hip-hop funk" image she has more recently begun to cultivate. Ferguson was the voice of Sally Brown in two Charlie Brown specials: It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown , and Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown.She also voiced Sally in the 1985 version of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
