Bite Autumn 2012

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 RTADO

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