Portuguese heritage and thus captured
the attention and tastes of fans around the
world.The album went platinum in Canada
and sold thousands of copies across the
seas.The iconic single ‘Forca’ even went on
to become the official anthem of the 2004
European Football Championship!
Timbaland was the producing genius
behind Nelly Furtado’s third and most
successful studio album so far. Singles like
‘
Promiscuous’, ‘Man-eater’, ‘Say It Right’
and ‘All Good Things (Come To An End)’,
were unleashed onto the public in 2006
on Nelly’s album
Loose
and were arguably
her most notorious and career-defining
singles to date. Perhaps it was her more
that saw her perform a duet with her
mother at church on Portugal Day when
she was a small child, and stayed on the
musical path. True, she did form her own
record label ‘Nelstar’ in conjunction with a
Canadian label, but even then her passion
for music and her determination to blur
the lines between musical convention and
unfamiliarity overruled and once again
she has exploded back onto the scene
with an avant-garde album that spills a
gamut of organic, obscure yet enchanting
songs. With her good friend Timbaland
being a prominent producer on her album
The Spirit Indestructible
,
amongst other
high-profile names, you can expect to
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youthful sound that enabled her to score
her first UK and US number ones with her
respective singles ‘Promiscuous’ and ‘Man-
eater’, or maybe it was because we were
so in awe of her chameleon-like vocals that
were so advanced that she could belt out a
ballad and a contemporary and high tempo
tune within one show with such ease and
grace. Whatever it was that owed to her
commercial success, Nelly undoubtedly
became a household name following the
release of
Loose
.
So with three internationally-acclaimed
albums under her belt, a Spanish album
and a Greatest Hits album to her name,
it would have been a perfectly acceptable
time for Nelly to immerse herself into
other ventures, so popular a trend it is
for singers and celebrities to do. However,
she stayed true to her vocalist roots