Furtado: Flute Player and Canada

furtado: Someone said, 'Go back to Portugal!' It's fine, I know it's just some stranger with a computer but I felt like the performance touched on a nerve and it actually scared me, Furtado recalled during a visit to Huff Post Canada's studio, according to Huffington Post Canada. I was like, 'Oh crap, we live in Canada and there's this covert racism and xenophobia and prejudice going on.' I've grown up as an ethnic minority. Performing alongside indigenous flute player Tony Duncan, Furtado played an unfamiliar arrangement of O Canada and the response was not just mean, it was xenophobic. I'm first generation and my parents are from Portugal, she adds. Furtado says she is very appreciative of her experience growing up with Portuguese parents and how that shaped her life and music. I think the greatest Canadian story is yet to be told and as we all tell these stories of our experiences, and we are true and honest and real and not afraid, evolution is inevitable. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.