Birth Name
Nelly Kim Neto Furtado
Date of Birth
2 December 1978, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Height
5' 2½" (1.59 m)
Spouse
Demacio (Demo) Castellon (19 July 2008 - present)
Trivia
Played eight dates on "the village stage" at Lilith truthful.
Formed (and an ex-member of) trip-hop cluster Nelstar.
Learned to play trombone and ukulele at age 9, keyboards at age eleven and started composing at age thirteen.
Is Canadian of Portuguese tight.
Speaks Portuguese fluently.
Sang a Hindi song named Kabhi Kabhie.
Voted one in all the "Fun and Fearless Females" by Cosmopolitan Magazine (2002.)
Won "Best Pop Vocal, Female" Grammy for her song "I'm sort of a Bird" (2002).
Daughter Nevis (named when the island on that she was conceived) born on September twenty, 2003, in Toronto to Nelly and then boyfriend Jasper Gahunia (aka DJ Lil' Jaz).
Second album "Folklore" released. [Nov twenty fifth 2003]
Parents are Maria Manuela Furtado and Antonio José Furtado. features a sister, Lisa Anne Furtado, and a brother, Michael Anthony Furtado.
Her song "Força", during which she sang each English and Portuguese, was the official theme of the Euro 2004 (European soccer Championships) in Portugal.
Ranked #58 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest girls within the World" (2002)
Perhaps as a nod to her various influences, she was invited to open for U2 and perform on Moby's Area: One Tour alongside the techno-rocker.
She conjointly scored some awards for her work, as well as Canadian Juno Awards for best new solo artist and best songwriter in 2001 and a Grammy in 2002 for best feminine pop performance ("Like A Bird.")
Graduated from Mount Douglas Secondary college in Victoria, B.C.
Was a significant smoker throughout her teenage years.
Fan of Kylie Minogue and Dannii Minogue.
Her third album "Loose" was released in June 2006 and reached #1 in US, Canadian and German charts. Four lead singles were released in four completely different regions of the globe, and therefore the "European" song "Maneater" became her 1st #1 within the UK single charts.
Her folks named her when Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim.
Will host the Juno Awards on April first, 2007 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Her father was a stonemason originally from Portugal. He could not speak English when he 1st came to Canada.
Her mother was a motel cleaner.
Ranked #26 on the Maxim magazine Hot a hundred of 2007 list.
According to an MTV interview, she self-taught herself a way to sing by being attentive to Mariah Carey albums.
Engaged to sound engineer Demacio 'Demo' Castellon [July six, 2007].
Ranked #49 on the Maxim magazine Hot a hundred of 2008 list.
Where Are They currently
(December 2005) making ready third Album "Loose" for Spring 2k6. features a role within the film "Nobody's Hero".
(June 2006) Come-back song from her new album 'Loose': 'Man-eater' reaches No. one within the British Charts
(August 2006) Released second song from her new album 'Promiscuous' with Timbaland
(2006) Announced her 2007 world tour, which can begin in Canada.
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