Her siblings are Michael Anthony and Lisa Anne. Nelly was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim. 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.
In 2012, Furtado released her nostalgia-inspired fifth album The Spirit Indestructible. She released her first Spanish-language album, Mi Plan, in 2009, which won her a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album. Furtado's critically acclaimed duet with James Morrison, " Broken Strings", also topped the charts in Europe in 2008. Her Timbaland collaboration " Give It to Me" (2007) in the same era also topped the charts in the US and overseas. The album spawned four successful number-one singles worldwide " Promiscuous", " Maneater", " Say It Right", and " All Good Things (Come to an End)". Considered a radical image reinvention, Furtado continued to explore her Portuguese heritage while leaning heavier into hip hop. Its singles received moderate success in Europe, but the album's underperformance compared to her debut was regarded as a sophomore slump.įurtado's third album, Loose (2006), was a smash hit and became her bestselling album, with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, also making it one of the bestselling albums of the 2000s.
Furtado's introspective folk-heavy 2003 second album, Folklore, explored her Portuguese roots. The first of the two singles won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She first gained fame with her trip hop-inspired debut album, Whoa, Nelly! (2000), which was a critical and commercial success that spawned two top-10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, " I'm Like a Bird" and " Turn Off the Light". Furtado has sold over 40 million records worldwide making her one of the most successful Canadian artists. Nelly Kim Furtado ComIH ( / f ɜːr ˈ t ɑː d oʊ/ Portuguese: born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
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