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Nicole Scherzinger
Her Name Is Nicole
Out November 6th

"I'm psyched. I'm jumping out of my skin," says Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger about her solo debut, which is packed with A-list collaborators: Guest vocalists include Sting and Akon, and Scherzinger got beats from Timbaland, Pharrell and Will.i.am. As Scherzinger worked on the disc, she kept racking up big-name guests: A chance encounter with Ne-Yo led him to give Scherzinger the ballad "Happily Never After," which he'd originally written for Britney Spears, and something similar happened when she ran into Kanye West in L.A. "He said, 'So when are we doing a song?' " she says. "The next night, I made him go in the studio before he forgot."

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