Nicole Scherzinger Biography

Fast Facts

• Majored in theatre and minored in dance at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio
• Decided she wanted to be a singer when she was 6 years old and her parents gave her a small, purple boom box and a cassette tape of Whitney Houston's self-titled debut album
• Quote: "[on Whitney Houston] "Her voice was so powerful; every note she sang just felt like the truth․""
• Best known as the lead singer of "The Pussycat Dolls," she has also ventured into acting
• Her debut solo album, "Killer Love," combines the styles of rock, soul, funk and pop
• When she auditioned to be in The Pussycat Dolls, she was actually only intending to give Ron Fair her demo tape in the hopes of being a solo artist
• Though she spent her first few years in Hawaii watching her family perform traditional Polynesian numbers complete with her mother as lead hula dancer, her family relocated to Louisville, Ky․, when she was 6 years old