Year 8, Day 162

Hey guys. Today's song is A Little Work by Fergie.

Photo by: Manfred Werner

All right, I've featured both Fergie and the Black Eyed Peas before so we're just going to do a quick overview today. So Fergie is the stage name for Stacy Ann Ferguson, whose been active since 1984. She started in voiceover work, playing Sally in the Peanuts cartoons and in The Charlie and Snoopy Show. She then went on to star on Kids Incorporated for nine seasons before joining a trio with another costar. That was called Wild Orchid and was made up of Fergie, Stefanie Ridel, and Renee Sandstrom, earning a contract after two years of searching in 1994. Their debut album came out in 1997, with another in 1998 and actually made a third album but the label refused to release it. Fergie left the group in 2001. In 2003 will.i.am asked Fergie to try out for a song for their third album, and the group all immediately just clicked, and she ended up on lots more songs on the album. Following its release, she became an official member of the group. She started doing solo work in 2006, releasing her first solo album. She has continued on with the Black Eyed Peas and released another solo album in 2017, plus dipping her fingers into a bunch of other business endeavours. Her sound has evolved over the years as this song is evidence of, so I hope you check it out.

Peace.