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Thursday, February 24, 2011
The young singer Justin Bieber is delighted with the news that within weeks will have their own image of wax in Madame Tussauds museum in New York, London and Amsterdam, after a long process of creating figures that has required making of thousands of photos and measurements.
"It's an honor to have my own wax figure at Madame Tussauds. Be immortalized alongside some of my idols as Michael Jackson, Prince, Beyonce and my mentor, Usher, is great and very exciting," said the artist, who has sold over nine million albums worldwide.
At 16 years and won four American Music Awards, Bieber has worked actively in the process of creating the figures, which has lasted for four months, "to capture their distinctive style and, of course, his unique hairstyle," said details the museum on its website.
The general manager of Madame Tussauds New York, Bret Pidgeon, said in a statement that "Justin Bieber is one of the biggest stars of the moment" and that fans and visitors, "have been asking that we did a figure from who jumped on stage. "
Bieber and goes to swell the list of artists that in recent years have earned wax reproductions of the premises of Madame Tussauds museum, among which include the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and even the versatile Lady Gaga.