JadeZ

Explore Nelly Furtado net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! In this article, we will discover how old is Nelly Furtado? Who is Nelly Furtado dating now & how much money does Nelly Furtado have?

Nelly Furtado Biography

Nelly Furtado is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on December 2, 1978 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian singer-songwriter, who released two Top 10 singles in 2000, “I’m Like a Bird”, and “Turn Off the Light”. Other number-one singles include “Promiscuous,” Maneater, and “Say It Right.” She has been awarded multiple Grammy and Juno Awards.

She was featured in the 2002 She was featured on the 2002 Juanes song “Fotografía.” track “Fotografia.”

Nelly Kim Furtado ComIH (/f ɜːr ˈ t ɑː d oʊ / , Portuguese: [fuɾˈtaðu] ; born December 2, 1978) is a Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter. Furtado first gained fame with her 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”. The first of the two singles won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 2003, she released her second album, Folklore, which was preceded by the lead single, “Powerless (Say What You Want)”.

During a visit with her sister Lisa Anne in Toronto in mid-1995, Furtado met Tallis Newkirk, member of the hip hop group Plains of Fascination. She contributed vocals to their 1996 album, Join the Ranks, on the track “Waitin’ 4 the Streets”. After graduating from Mount Douglas Secondary School in 1996, she moved to Toronto to reside with her sister Lisa Anne. The following year, she formed Nelstar, a trip hop duo with Newkirk. Ultimately, Furtado felt the trip hop style of the duo was “too segregated”, and believed it did not represent her personality or allow her to showcase her vocal ability. She left the group and planned to move back home.

With her boyfriend Jasper Gahunia she had a daughter, Nevis. They were together from 2001 to 2005. From 2008 to 2016, she was married to Demacio Castellon.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

Many peoples want to know what is Nelly Furtado ethnicity, nationality, Ancestry & Race? Let's check it out! As per public resource, IMDb & Wikipedia, Nelly Furtado's ethnicity is Caucasian. We will update Nelly Furtado's religion & political views in this article. Please check the article again after few days.

Furtado continued the collaboration with Eaton and West, who co-produced her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, which was released in October 2000. The album was an international success, supported by three international singles: “I’m Like a Bird”, “Turn Off the Light”, and “…On the Radio (Remember the Days)”. It received four Grammy nominations in 2002, and her debut single won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Furtado’s work was also critically acclaimed for her innovative mixture of various genres and sounds. Slant Magazine called the album “a delightful and refreshing antidote to the army of ‘pop princesses’ and rap-metal bands that had taken over popular music at the turn of the millennium”. The sound of the album was strongly influenced by musicians who had traversed cultures and “the challenge of making heartfelt, emotional music that’s upbeat and hopeful”. According to Maclean’s magazine, Whoa, Nelly! had sold six million copies worldwide as of August 2006. Portions of the song “Scared of You” are in Portuguese, while “Onde Estás” is entirely in Portuguese, reflecting Furtado’s Portuguese heritage. Following the release of the album, Furtado headlined the “Burn in the Spotlight Tour” and also appeared on Moby’s Area:One tour.

Nelly Furtado Net Worth

Nelly Furtado is one of the richest Pop Singer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nelly Furtado's net worth $20 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a teenager, she was a member of a Portuguese marching band. Nelstar was her first band.

Her albums have been sold more than 50 million times around the world. Loose was her third album and became her most-sold album.

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 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.

Furtado has graced the cover of numerous international fashion magazines, including Canada’s Flare and Elle; Russia’s Elle Girl; Hungary’s Shape; Portugal’s Vogue; Germany’s Maxim; and US’ Teen People, Vanidades and YM. She has appeared on the cover of several international editions of Cosmopolitan (Turkey, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia and Hungary). She was voted one of the “Fun and Fearless Females” by Cosmopolitan in 2002.

In 2002, Furtado appeared on the song “Thin Line”, on underground hip hop group Jurassic 5’s album Power in Numbers. The same year, Furtado provided her vocals to the Paul Oakenfold song “The Harder They Come” from the album Bunkka. She also had a collaboration with Colombian artist Juanes in the song “Fotografía” (“Photograph”), where she showed her diversity of yet another language, Spanish. Furtado was also featured in “Breath” from Swollen Members’ Monsters in the Closet release; the video for “Breath”, directed by Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, won the 2003 Western Canadian Music Awards Outstanding Video and MuchVIBE Best Rap Video. In 2002, Furtado was the recipient of an International Achievement Award at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto for her song “I’m Like a Bird”.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Nelly Furtado height Not available right now. Nelly weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

In 1997, she performed at the Honey Jam talent show. Her performance attracted the attention of The Philosopher Kings singer Gerald Eaton, who then approached her to write with him. He and fellow Kings member Brian West helped Furtado produce a demo. She left Toronto, but returned again to record more material with Eaton and West. The material recorded during these sessions was shopped to record companies by her attorney Chris Taylor and led to her 1999 record deal with DreamWorks Records, signed by A&R executive Beth Halper, partner of Garbage drummer and record producer Butch Vig. Furtado’s first single, “Party’s Just Begun (Again)”, was released that year on the soundtrack album for Brokedown Palace (1999).

Furtado’s second album, Folklore, was released in November 2003. One of the tracks on the album, “Childhood Dreams”, was dedicated to her daughter, Nevis. The album includes the single “Força” (meaning “strength”/ “power” or “you can do it!” in Portuguese), the official anthem of the 2004 European Football Championship. Furtado performed this song in Lisbon at the championship’s final, in which Portugal’s national team played. The lead single released was “Powerless (Say What You Want)” and the second single was the ballad “Try”. The album was not as successful as her debut, partly due to the album’s less “poppy” sound, as well as underpromotion from her label DreamWorks Records. DreamWorks had just been sold to Universal Music Group at the time of the album’s release. Eventually in 2005, DreamWorks Records, along with many of its artists, including Furtado, were absorbed into Geffen Records. “Powerless (Say What You Want)” was later remixed into a Spanish version called “Abre Tu Corazón”, featuring Juanes, who had previously worked with Furtado on his track “Fotografía”. The two would collaborate again on “Te Busqué” (“I Searched for You”), a single from Furtado’s 2006 album Loose. In 2003, Furtado won an International Achievement Award at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto for her song “Turn Off the Light”.

Who is Nelly Furtado Dating?

According to our records, Nelly Furtado married to Demacio Castellon . As of December 1, 2023, Nelly Furtado’s is not dating anyone.

On September 20, 2003, Furtado gave birth to her daughter, Nevis Chetan. The child’s father is Jasper Gahunia, Furtado’s boyfriend since 2001 and a close friend for several years. The couple broke up in 2005 but, according to Furtado, continue to be good friends and share joint responsibility of raising Nevis. On July 19, 2008, Furtado married sound engineer Demacio Castellon, with whom she had worked on Loose. In April 2017, during an appearance on the British daytime panel show Loose Women, Furtado announced she had separated from Castellon during the summer of 2016 and said she is now single.

Top Facts about Nelly Furtado

Facts & Trivia

Nelly Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Nelly Furtado celebrates birthday on December 2 of every year.

In November 2006, Furtado revealed that she once turned down US$500,000 to pose fully clothed in Playboy.

Why did Nelly Furtado disappear?

Why did Nelly Furtado disappear? Nelly Furtado took a step back from music and the public spotlight after a nervous breakdown in 2006. “I had a nervous breakdown on stage,” she told the Daily Mail in 2017. “I was on the Loose tour [2007] and my daughter was with me — I was being a mum and a singer on the road.

What is Nelly Furtado doing these days?

In October 2020, she re-released her debut album Whoa, Nelly! with acoustic versions and remixes of original songs. She did the same with her album Loose in June this year. Furtado also occasionally posts photos on her Instagram Story, but her last one was taken in February 2021.

Where is Nelly Furtado net worth?

Is Nelly Furtado Latina?

Canadian singer/songwriter Nelly Furtado has embraced her Latin roots — and the Latino music market — with the release of her first Spanish language album, “Mi Plan.” Although raised in Victoria, British Columbia, her parents are of Portuguese descent and she has been speaking Spanish since the age of 14.

Did Nelly Furtado have a nervous breakdown?

As her fame and its accompanying pressures grew, Furtado suffered a breakdown in the most public way. “I had a nervous breakdown on stage. I was on the Loose tour and my daughter was with me – I was being a mum and a singer on the road. I was exhausted,” she later revealed to the Mail on Sunday.

ncG1vNJzZmiZnKGzornOrqqboaKptaWt2GeaqKVfo7KtuNhmna6qpJaxsHs%3D