Fergie

Stacy Ferguson was a former child star on the show KIDS INCORPORATED and a member of the short-lived dance/pop trio Wild Orchid before bottoming out with a drug addiction in the early 2000s. Ferguson cleaned up, joined the pop-rap act Black Eyed Peas, and was reintroduced to the world as Fergie. Fergie's contributions to the Peas (particularly her absurd club-banging ode to her own body, "My Humps") helped launch the group to a new level of stardom and set the stage for her 2006 solo debut, THE DUTCHESS. The album was an immediate smash, moving up the charts on the strength of the ubiquitous singles "London Bridge" and "Fergalicious."

• pop
• hip hop/rap