Pussycat Dolls

The Pussycat Dolls began as parodying dancing command Los Angeles, which was founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995. Later it grew into a phenomenon with periodically varying circle of celebrities, but the result has become operational with the dance hit Number 1. The troupe attracted actresses and models who wanted to become a 'fluffy doll' for the night. Christina Aguilera, Pamela Anderson, Kelly Osbourne, Pink, Britney Spears, Carmen Electra and Gwen Stefani - just a few names that donned lingerie and seductive suits and joined the statement made by the Dolls.

In 2002 the troupe moved to the club The Roxy, but at the same time and won the world's attention. About them do the transfer at MTV and VH1, they appeared in various magazines, and soon the music makers felt that this success is a sin not to use. Theoretically, the legendary producer Jimmy Ayovina, founder of the label Interscope Records, the troupe held a set of new, young participants, and then it turned into a pop group. The main singer in the group are Nicole Shertsinger; to also include Carmit Bachar, Melody Thornton, Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts.

One of the first performances date was the opening ceremony of MTV Asia Awards in 2004. In 2005 came the debut album by the collective, called simply 'PCD'. The first single from the album, a duet with Busta Rhymes 'Don't Cha', immediately got on top of the charts, and the album sold a hundred thousand copies for any couple of weeks.

Pussycat Dolls were created in 1995 by choreographer Robin Antin. Initially, PCD have been something of a modern cabaret and dance shows staged at prestigious institutions of Los Angeles. After the statement "cats" in the club The Viper Room, . owned by Johnny Depp, . He said: "That's it for this that I, and opened his own club!" Very soon the Pussycat Dolls have earned the glory of the most incendiary girls on the West Coast, . and producers have their idea to invite the different stars spend participating Pussycat Dolls for one night,
. Actresses, models and singers soon lined up: Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Pamela Anderson, Kelly Osbourne, Pink, Britney Spears - this is only part of those who wore sexy Impress and burned them on the same stage. At the same time "dolls" had appeared in several TV shows, on the covers of glossy magazines and even to withdraw the film "Charlie's Angels: Full speed ahead", that made them famous throughout the world. Suddenly, the girls themselves to them have expressed an interest record companies in the past year the Pussycat Dolls debut album PCD. The first single from it - the song Don't Cha, recorded with Busta Rhymes - led the U.S. dance charts. You bet! After all, as producers have worked with rapper Timbaland (friend and producer Missy Elliott), and Will.i.am from Black Eyed Peas. Composition of Pussycat Dolls is constantly changing: over 10 years of existence through the group were 25 people

. The composition of the group The Pussycat Dolls

. Nicole Scherzinger
. Born: June 29, 1978
. Hometown: Honolulu, Hawaii

. In the group since: 2003
. Recipe exotic beauty Nicole is simple: her father - a Filipino and his mother - half Aloha Shirt, half-Russian
. In the five years she studied acting at school and even enrolled in university theater, but in 1999 decided to engage with the theater space for a backing vocalist in the band Days of the New. After 2 years, Nicole gets into the TV show Popstars (such as our "American Idol") and became a party gerlz-band Eden's Crash. But the glory "fabrikantok" even in the United States does not last long, and after a few hits of the group released dissolved. However, Nicole was lucky - it almost immediately invited as a singer in the Pussycat Dolls, who are just going to burn a disc.

Jessica Satti
Born: May 15, 1982
Hometown: Miami, Florida
In the group since: 2002

In jes a mixture of a lot of blood: for the father she has Russian and Polish and Jewish roots, and her mother - Hibernian. Parents gave the girl to dance school when she was only 3 years. Then, when Jessica was 14, she continued dance classes at the prestigious School of Art, but because of excessive zeal sustained injuries on both knees, and she had the time to leave and go to the Dance School of Performing Arts. Once the doctor allowed her to dance again, she joined a dance group, Miami Heat and two years later, in 2001, led the team. A year later jes moved to Los Angeles, . where she worked at the backup dancers in music videos of Will Smith, . Beyoncц?, . Craig David and other, . until one day on the set are not met Robin (choreographer and creator of PCD), . which invited her to join the group,
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Ashley Roberts
Born: September 14, 1981
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
In the group since: 2000

Ashley started dancing at 3 years and 8 years old and still singing. With music helped her father, who was then the drummer in the group The Mamas and the Papas, but with plastic - mom, fitness instructor. During the summer holidays Ashley went to the West Coast to study modern dance, and after graduation moved to Los Angeles. There she starred in a few TV shows, and six months have been a member of the Pussycat Dolls. In the group she was nicknamed Barbie doll, which later changed to Doll-Angel
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. Kermit Becher
. Born: September 4, 1974
. Hometown: Los Angeles, California
. In the group since: 1995

. Kermit's fate was largely determined by its semeika: her father was a dancer, . and her mother a teacher dance, . so that in 10 years she has participated in international competitions in rhythmic gymnastics, . took 5 th place at the Olympics in 1992, . this is not counting the smaller achievements,
. As a member of the national team the United States, Kermit has time to study at the Academy of Music in Los Angeles in the class dance, piano and viola. In 1995, she was casting and got the very first of the Pussycat Dolls. She is now the oldest member of the band and the only one who works in it from the beginning. For 11 years, with "dolls" Kermit had time to implement and several solo projects: rent four movies (including "King Scorpion"), to go as a dancer on tour with Ricky Martin, Janet Jackson, the group No Doubt and many others

. Kimberly Wyatt
. Born: February 4, 1982
. Place of Birth: Uorrensburg, Missouri
. In the group since: 2003

. Kimberly's father was a trucker, and her mother traveled with him, but this did not prevent Kim had seven years to do dances, and at 14 to receive a scholarship for summer study in Broadway dance school in New York
. After high school at age 17, she immediately went to Los Angeles where he became a party to show programs on the largest cruise ship at the time. In 2001, she went to the land and eventually moved to LA. Two years later, Kim has already put herself dancing to a video clip of Nick Leychi (ex-husband, singer Jessica Simpson). It is doing this she met Robin Antin, who immediately invited her to the Pussycat Dolls. According to Robin, Kim - the sexiest dancer, she had just seen in my life

. Melody Thornton
. Born: September 28, 1984
. Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
. In the group since: 2003

. Melody (daughter of Mexican and African American) in contrast to the other participants Pussycat Dolls dance never studied, but with great children sang
. Once she saw the statement Pussycat Dolls on MTV and immediately went to the casting, which was successfully. Now Melody is the youngest in the group, and her singing talent involved much more than dancing. The very same Thornton dreams of a career r'n'b-singer and soon going to release his solo album.