Canadian Singer: Nelly and Debut Album

canadian singer: The Canadian Press By Ben Rayner Pop Music Critic Mon., March 27, 2017 Nelly Furtado has an admirable track record of doing whatever Nelly Furtado isn't supposed to be doing at a given moment, according to Toronto Star. She followed up a 2003 debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, certified platinum or better in territories spanning three continents, with an earnestly multicultural big-budget folk-pop followup, Folklore, that contained nothing remotely resembling I'm Like a Bird. The Canadian singer says her new album The Ride is her most raw work to date. Then she followed that up with Loose, a sexy, au courant club record produced by Timbaland that had some fans worrying about a sellout and which subsequently moved 12 million copies worldwide on the back of monster singles like Maneater and Promiscuous to become her biggest album to date. Now, after a five-year layoff following 2012's clubby-again The Spirit Indestructible during which she sought escape from the music industry in pottery and playwriting classes and other art projects, the 38-year-old has teamed up with unlikely producer John Congleton an incredibly busy chap whose exhaustive resum includes records by such indie-rock stalwarts as Spoon, Explosions in the Sky, Sleater-Kinney, the War on Drugs and St. The logical thing for a Portuguese-Canadian gal from Toronto via Victoria to do next Why, a Spanish-language album entitled Mi Plan, of course. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.