Nelly to Perform at “2012 Billboard Music Awards”
Nelly have been announced as the second round of artists to perform at the “2012 Billboard Music Awards,” airing live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on SUNDAY, MAY 20 on the ABC Television Network. Additional acts and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.
Nelly Furtado’s upcoming fifth album, “The Spirit Indestructible,” will be released on June 19th, 2012. The album’s first single, “Big Hoops (Bigger is Better)” (Interscope Records), which Furtado co-wrote with Rodney Jerkins, was released on April 17th. “The Spirit Indestructible” is Furtado’s first English-language studio album since 2006′s double-platinum “Loose,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, was certified multi-platinum in 32 countries, and sold 10 million copies worldwide. “Loose” also spawned three hit singles, including the #1′s “Promiscuous” and “Say It Right,” both of which earned Furtado Grammy Award nominations.
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Nelly got it right
In an article that appeared in Canada’s ‘Globe’, Nelly declares that ‘I now laugh at the term the Third World. The Third World is so full of human triumph. In many ways, it is the heart of the spiritual world’. Furtado was writing about her experiences during a trip to Africa earlier that year.
I must confess that I rarely pay attention when musicians, actors and other prima donnas make sweeping statements in favour or against one thing or the other. So, under normal circumstances if I heard a millionaire musician pontificating about the spiritual purity of the materially disposed, I would have given it the same consideration as the last sighting of Elvis. While some of her declarations could be described as naive, I do believe that Furtado’s observation that ‘the Third World is so full of human triumph’ merits exploration by us who dwell in the Third World because we tend to look outward for inspiration and ignore the essential goodness of the ordinary people around us.
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Nelly announces new album
Nelly Furtado promising fans that her next album will be in stores this summer!
“It’s official: Album out for summer. and I’ll be out on the road promoting it for at least 2 years cuz I love it,” the Canadian musician promises yesterday. While this follows Furtado’s 2009 Spanish album, “Mi Plan,” we’re hoping that the singer returns to her sexy pop sound from her 2006 album “Loose.” Why, you might ask?
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Nelly Furtado releases new English single
Nelly Furtado, whose parents are both Portuguese, speaks English, French, Spanish and of course Portuguese. She too plays ukulele, trombone, guitar and piano.
Back in 1999 those who watched Claire Danes’ film Brokedown Palace, heard the first glimpse of Nelly before her first album Whoa, Nelly! was released the following year. “I’m Like a Bird”, her official first single, became her staple track reaching #1 in Canada and #9 in the US, and winning her the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, making Furtado the first recipient of such Grammy for a first single since Mariah Carey did so a decade prior for “Vision Of Love”.
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Nelly Release Hits Collection
Nelly will release a 10-year retrospective hits collection this fall. The album, titled the Best of Nelly Furtado, is due out November 16th and features all hits along with previously unreleased tracks. It will be available in standard and double-disc deluxe editions.
The first single from the collection will be a new track titled the “Night Is Young.” It joins a mix of Furtado’s hits including “I’m Like a Bird,” “Promiscuous“, “Say It Right” and “Maneater.” The other two new songs are called “Stars” and “Girlfriend.” A video for “Night Is Young” will be coming in the near future.
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Nelly Furtado – Free
Nelly Furtado is back to singing in English on new tune “Free”. The tune, which Idolator reports is off her upcoming album Lifestyle, is a bubbling bit of dance pop, which would suggest the Promiscuous Girl is still stuck in the club.
As Furtado told Portuguese outlet IOL late last year, she reteamed with Loose producer Timbaland to record some of the new tracks. But as she puts it, Lifestyle is shaping up to have a different “energy” than that 2006 smash.
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Nelly Furtado Introduces Her Fritz Helder & The Phantoms
Last Friday, Nelly Furtado introduces her Fritz Helder & The Phantoms at the group’s CD release party at Mr. Black in New York City. The album, named “Greatest Hits! Platinum Edition,” is released on Nelly Furtado’s new Nelstar record label.
Hosted and introduced by Nelly Furtado, Toronto-based Fritz Helder & the Phantoms – comprised of lead singer Fritz Helder, sporting a Dorothy Hamill haircut, keyboardist Diego Superstar and his exaggerated eyelashes, the fabulous Pastel Supernova and guitarist Silk Helder – put on a raucous set of 11 songs. Right off the bat, you can’t deny their comparison to the Black Eyed Peas simply because of the make-up of their band members (3 multi-ethnic guys and a hot girl). But these guys really have their own thing going on. Loved their style, music, and syncopated moves.
Nelly Furtado launches her own record label
Nelly Furtado has launched her own record label in a bid to lend a helping hand to hopeful musicians.
The ‘Hey Man’ hitmaker has launched her own record label called ‘Nelstar’. Nelly will work in co-operation with Canadian record company Last Gang Labels.
Nelly Furtado has already signed up a Toronto-based electro-pop quartet ‘Fritz Helder and the Phantoms’ under her newly launched record label.
“I’ve been thinking about a way to help Fritz Helder for a while and this venture grew out of my love for the band, their art and their work ethic. I am as committed as they are to bringing their creativity to the world,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.
“We love Nelly and this new partnership is a very exciting opportunity for us. It’s empowering to work with a combination of people who believe in our project and are willing to help us see it through,” remarks Fritz, the group’s main vocalist.
life Nelly.
When is this Hollywood baby boom gonna end? Star is reporting that Nelly Furtado is
knocked up with her second child. Who’s the baby daddy? It’s her sound engineer
fiance Demacio Castellon.
“She’s not very far along yet, so she’s trying to keep the pregnancy under wraps,” a “source” told Star magazine.
Nelly – who are you?
AND WITH SONG TITLES LIKE “PROMISCUOUS” AND “MANEATER”, SHE’S ALREADY EMBRACING HER INNER BISEXUAL STEREOTYPE
Nelly Furtado Portuguese-Canadian singer Nelly Furtado–who broke out in 2000 with hit singles “I’m Like a Bird” and “Turn Out the Light”, and whose new album, Loose, has already produced the hit singles “Promiscuous” and “Maneater”–was recently asked by Genre magazine if she was attracted to women, to which she gave this response:
“Absolutely. Women are beautiful and sexy. It is interesting, because I’m reading a book about Chinese medicine, which claims that people are inherently bisexual to balance their energies. And, in a way, that makes so much sense. As humans we have both male and female energies. I believe in Kurt Cobain’s statement that, in the end, everyone is gay. Everybody should have the freedom to experiment. I believe sexual experimentation is part of human history.”
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