Nelly Fertado Ringtones
Nelly Fertado Ringtones : Nelly Fertado's Ringtones
Nelly Kim Furtado
(born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter,
instrumentalist, and record producer of Portuguese descent.
Nelly Fertado Ringtones came to fame in 2000 with the release of her
debut album Whoa, Nelly!, which featured the Grammy Award-winning single
"I'm like a Bird" and "Turn off the Light". After giving birth to
daughter Nevis and releasing the less commercially successful Folklore
(2003), Nelly Fertado Ringtones returned to prominence in 2006 with the
release of Loose and its hit singles, "Promiscuous" and "Maneater".
Nelly Fertado Ringtones has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide.
Nelly Fertado Ringtones is known for her musical eclecticism,
continually experimenting with different instruments, sounds, genres,
languages, and vocal styles. This diversity has been influenced by her
wide-ranging musical taste and Nelly Fertado Ringtones's interest in
different cultures.
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Nelly Fertado Ringtones, a
first-generation (Portuguese Canadian) was born as one of three children
to Maria Manuela and António José Furtado,Portuguese parents from São
Miguel Island in the Azores. Nelly Fertado Ringtones was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie
Kim.
Nelly Fertado Ringtones's parents emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s
from the Azores Islands which are located about 1,500 km (900 miles) off
the coast of Portugal. Nelly Fertado Ringtones has stated that visiting
her parents' birthplace, the Azores islands, as a child and experiencing
its culture and learning the Portuguese language has made Nelly Fertado
Ringtones an open-minded person. This has strongly influenced Nelly
Fertado Ringtones's artistry as she has incorporated many cross-cultural
sounds into her music. It is also evident in Nelly Fertado Ringtones's
multilingualism as she can speak English, Portuguese, Spanish and, to a
lesser extent, Hindi. Nelly Fertado Ringtones has acknowledged her
parents as the source of her strong work ethic; Nelly Fertado Ringtones
spent eight summers working as a chambermaid with her mother, who was a
housekeeper in Victoria. Nelly Fertado Ringtones has
stated that coming from a working class background has shaped her
identity in a positive way.
Nelly Fertado Ringtones first sang at the age of four when she performed
a duet with her mother at church on Portugal Day. Nelly Fertado
Ringtones began playing instruments at the age of nine, learning the
trombone, ukulele and, in later years, the guitar and keyboard. Nelly
Fertado Ringtones began writing songs at the age of twelve and,
as a teenager, she played in a Portuguese marching band.
During these early years, Nelly Fertado Ringtones embraced many musical genres,
listening heavily to mainstream R&B, hip hop, alternative rock,
alternative hip hop, trip hop, world music (including Portuguese fado,
Brazilian bossa nova, and Indian music), and a variety of others. Nelly
Fertado Ringtones's
influences have included Jeff Buckley, Caetano Veloso, Amalia Rodrigues,
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Cornershop, Mariah Carey, TLC, Mary J. Blige,
Digable Planets, De La Soul, Radiohead, Oasis, The Smashing Pumpkins,
The Verve, U2, and Beck.
Nelly Fertado Ringtones's music has also been influenced by her current
residence, Toronto, which Nelly Fertado Ringtones calls "the most
multicultural city in the entire world" and a place where Nelly Fertado
Ringtones "can be any culture". Growing up in Canada and experiencing
Toronto's cultural diversity, Nelly Fertado Ringtones has said that she
did not have to wait for the Internet revolution to learn about world
music; Nelly Fertado Ringtones began listening to it at the age of
fifteen and continues to discover new genres. In 2006, Nelly Fertado
Ringtones commented about her diverse taste:
Nelly Fertado Ringtones says : " I always know there's a new genre left to
discover. For me, it's like a metaphor for life. I feel like if you can
get down with any style of music, you can get down with any style of
person. So it's fun for me—I get to expose my fans to different vibes
and they, in turn, open their minds too. I'm always undergoing mind-opening.
"The first musicians
Nelly Fertado Ringtones
interacted with were underground rappers and DJs.During a visit to
Toronto, after the summer of eleventh grade, Nelly Fertado Ringtones met Tallis Newkirk,
member of hip hop group Plains of Fascination and contributed vocals to
their 1996 album Join the Ranks on the track "Waitin' 4 the
Streets". Nelly Fertado Ringtones spent the rest of that summer in
Portugal, opening her mind to native rock acts, and then returned to
British Columbia. After graduating from Mount Douglas Secondary School
in 1996, Nelly Fertado Ringtones moved to
Toronto where she eventually formed the trip hop duo Nelstar in 1997
with Newkirk. The experience led her back to Nelly Fertado Ringtones's
hip hop influences and allowed Nelly Fertado Ringtones to become more comfortable with writing her own melodies and
rhymes. Although, "Like", one of the songs Nelstar recorded, received a
VideoFACT grant to cover for the production of a music video, Nelly
Fertado Ringtones felt the trip-hop style of the duo was "too
segregated" and believed it did not represent Nelly Fertado Ringtones's
personality or allow her to showcase her vocal ability. Nelly Fertado
Ringtones left the group and decided to move back home.
Before moving, Nelly Fertado Ringtones performed at the 1997 Honey Jam,
a female, mostly-black talent show at Toronto nightclub Lee's Palace.
Nelly Fertado Ringtones
performed to a Digital Audio Tape in jeans and a t-shirt. At the club,
The Philosopher Kings singer Gerald Eaton (aka Jarvis Church) was
impressed with Nelly Fertado Ringtones's performance and approached her
to write with him. Eaton and fellow Kings member Brian West,
collectively known as Track and Field, helped Nelly Fertado Ringtones
produce a demo, but Nelly Fertado Ringtones already had plans to
backpack through Europe and return home to take creative writing courses
at Camosun College. Nelly Fertado Ringtones stayed in touch with Eaton
and West who insisted that Nelly Fertado Ringtones return to Toronto to
record more material. Nelly Fertado Ringtones eventually returned for
two weeks; the material recorded during those sessions led to Nelly
Fertado Ringtones's record deal with DreamWorks Records in 1999.
Nelly Fertado Ringtones continued to collaborate with Eaton and West, who co-produced her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, which was released in October 2000. The album saw major success all over the globe supported by its three singles, "I'm like a Bird", "Turn off the Light", and "...On the Radio (Remember the Days)". It received four Grammy nominations in 2002; Nelly Fertado Ringtones's debut single won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Furthermore, Nelly Fertado Ringtones was critically acclaimed for her innovative mixture of various genres and sounds. Slant magazine called the album "a delightful and refreshing antidote to the army of 'pop princesses' and rap-metal bands that had taken over popular music at the turn of the millennium". The sound of the album was strongly influenced by musicians who had traversed cultures and "the challenge of making heartfelt, emotional music that's upbeat and hopeful". Following the release of the album, Nelly Fertado Ringtones headlined the Burn in the Spotlight tour and also appeared on Moby's Area:One tour.