Nelly Furtado

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Birth Name: Nelly Kim Furtado

Age: 46, born 2 December 1978

Country of origin: Canada

Currently Residing In: United Kingdom

Height: 5' 2"

Relationship Status: Single

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Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous ft. Timbaland

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Nelly Furtado - I'm Like A Bird

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Description: Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer and songwriter born to Portuguese parents'. She has sold over 45 million records, including 35 million in album sales worldwide, making her one of the most successful Canadian artists. Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, which spawned two successful singles, "I'm Like a Bird" and "Turn Off the Light". "I'm Like A Bird" won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Critics have noted Furtado's musical versatility and experimentation with genres. She has won many awards th Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer and songwriter born to Portuguese parents'. She has sold over 45 million records, including 35 million in album sales worldwide, making her one of the most successful Canadian artists. Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, which spawned two successful singles, "I'm Like a Bird" and "Turn Off the Light". "I'm Like A Bird" won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Critics have noted Furtado's musical versatility and experimentation with genres.

She has won many awards throughout her career, including one Grammy Award from seven nominations, one Latin Grammy Award, ten Juno Awards, one BRIT Award, one Billboard Music Award, one MTV Europe Music Award, one World Music Award, and three Much Music Video Awards. Furtado has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame, and was awarded Commander of the Order of Prince Henry on February 28, 2014, by Aníbal Cavaco Silva, the then-President of Portugal.

Furtado was born on December 2, 1978, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Her Portuguese parents, António José Furtado and Maria Manuela Furtado, were born on São Miguel Island in the Azores and had immigrated to Canada in the late 1960s. Nelly was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim. Her elder siblings are Michael Anthony and Lisa Anne. They were raised Roman Catholic. At age four, she began performing and singing in Portuguese. Furtado's first public performance was when she sang a duet with her mother at a church on Portugal Day. She began playing musical instruments at the age of nine, learning the trombone, ukulele and, in later years, the guitar and keyboards. At the age of 12, she began writing songs, and as a teenager, she performed in a Portuguese marching band. Furtado has acknowledged her family as the source of her strong work ethic; she spent eight summers working as a chambermaid with her mother, along with her brother and sister, who was a housekeeper in Victoria. ... (more)