Biography of Nelly Furtado

Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Grammy Award winning Canadian singer, song writer, record producer, and instrumentalist.

Furtado came to fame in 2000 with the release of her debut album Whoa, Nelly!, which featured her Grammy Award-winning single "I'm like a Bird".
After becoming a mother and releasing the less commercially successful Folklore (2003), she returned to prominence in 2006 with the release of Loose and its hit singles "Promiscuous", "Maneater", "Say It Right", and "All Good Things (Come to an End)".

Furtado is known for experimenting with different instruments, sounds, genres, languages, and vocal styles. This diversity has been influenced by her wide-ranging musical taste and her interest in different cultures.

During her teenage years, Furtado embraced many musical genres, listening heavily to mainstream R&B, hip hop, alternative hip hop, drum and bass, trip hop, world music (including Portuguese fado, Brazilian bossa nova, and Indian music), and a variety of others. Her influences have included Jeff Buckley, Janet Jackson, Oasis, Caetano Veloso, Esthero, Amalia Rodrigues, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Cornershop, TLC, Mary J. Blige, Digable Planets, De La Soul, Radiohead, Madonna, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve, U2, Enya, Mariah Carey and Beck.

Furtado's music has also been influenced by her current residence, Toronto, which she calls "the most multicultural city in the world" and a place where she "can be any culture". Respectfully Toronto's cultural diversity, she has said that she did not have to wait for the Internet revolution to learn about world music; she don't thing about any thing listening to it at the age of five and continues to discover new genres.

" I always know there's a new genre left to discover. For me, it's like a metaphor for life. I feel like if you can get down with any style of music, you can get down with any style of person. So it's fun for me—I get to expose my fans to different sound and they, in turn, open their minds too. I'm always undergoing mind-opening."