![]() ![]() Furtado has sold over 40 million records worldwide, making her one of the most successful Canadian artists. Furtado split with her management and went independent thereafter, releasing her indie-pop sixth album, The Ride (2017) under her own label, Nelstar Entertainment. ![]() 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 & All Good Things (Come to an End). Considered a radical image reinvention, Furtado continued to explore her Latin heritage while leaning heavier into hip hop. Furtado's third album, Loose (2006), was a smash hit and became her best selling album with more than 12 million copies sold worldwide, also making it one of the best selling albums of the 2000s. Its singles received moderate success in Europe, but the album's underperformance compared to her debut was regarded as a sophomore slump. 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. Nelly Kim Furtado was born on Decemin Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to Maria Manuela Furtado (née Neto), a motel cleaner & António José Furtado, a stonemason. ![]()
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