With five major wins, Nelly Furtado swept Canada's Juno Awards over the weekend. A total of 39 Juno trophies were handed out over two nights, Saturday (March 31) and Sunday (April 1) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.Furtado, host of the two-hour CTV televised event on Sunday, won the five categories in which she was nominated: artist, album and pop album (both for her third Mosley Music Group/Geffen ...
So this is the high budget 'teaser' for Nelly Furtado's upcoming Spanish single, "Manos Al Aire," which will precede an album release on September 26. After ten years of study in the language, I have deduced that the title translates roughly to "Manos: The Hands Of Fate."The song sounds both very good and very celebration ready. Perhaps this is the sound of an artist finding true freedom post-T...
photo:ecstaticistOnly a week now and I’ll be on holiday so I have some stuff to organise before I go. I hurt my ankle playing football as well so that’s not looking great. Anyway, news. Biffy Clyro have released the video for their new single “The Golden Rule.” It’s an interesting video, bizarre for the most [...]
Those crazy Canadians are slaphappy with music videos this week, with two brand spanking new clips from both Nelly Furtado and Avril Lavigne.Nelly Furtado, currently touring the US with hot new artist Kenna, releases the video for "In God's Hands," the fifth single of Loose. The album, Furtado's third studio effort, has sold more than three million copies worldwide. Avril Lavigne, who scored th...
This Week three pop star, Nelly Furtado, Christina Aguilera and Lily Allen have made announcements that suggest there urge to settle down.Noticing a shiny diamond on Nelly Furtado's ring finger, gossip blog PerezHilton.com broke the news of the Canadian singer’s engagement to her Cuban boyfriend Demacio Castellon. Castellon, a sound engineer for uber-producer Timbaland met Furtado while working.
MUSIC NEWS - Nearly 6 months ago it was announced via Twitter that LILITH FAIR, the all-female festival would make its return next year. This week, the new, official Lilith 2010 website launched, with a new look and feel of Lilith 10 yrs later, and the basic info with the group of cities that the show will be hitting--New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, London and more. No confirm
MUSIC NEWS - Grammy Award winning Canadian / Portuguese singer-songwriter-music entrepreneur, Nelly Furtado has made history by reaching # 1 on Billboard’s HOT LATIN SONGS chart with her single "MANOS AL AIRE," the lead single off of "Mi Plan," her 4th studio album which is her first completely recorded in Spanish. This is the first time that a North American artist makes this achieve
A few weeks back we told you Nelly Furtado was in the process of prepping an all-spanish album. Now, we have the first clip of what is rumored to be the first single, “Manos Al Aire.”Be sure to give a listen below. Again, it’s only a clip, so it’s hard to get an overall sense [...]
Nelly Furtado, the Grammy award winning artist, made history today with her lead single “Manos al Aire” as she became the first North American artist to score a #1 hit with an original Spanish song on Billboard’s “Hot Latin Songs” Chart. “Manos al Aire” is also number #1 overseas in Italy, Colombia, Chile and Central [...]
According to Billboard, Nelly Furtado will return to her Latina roots with an all Spanish album on Universal Music Latino.The singer-songwriter burst on the mainstream scene back in 2000 with the highly infectious “I’m Like a Bird,” off the successful debut album Whoa…Nelly. While Furtado transformed into pop star status with her last release, Loose, [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Singer-songwriter-record mogul Nelly Furtadohas announced the signing of the first act to her record company, Nelstar. It's Toronto's electro-pop 4 piece, Fritz Helder & the Phantoms. The band's album, Greatest Hits, is to be released July 7, 2009 in North America thru Last Gang Records' (via Fontana/Universal in the USA and Universal in Canada). Their album's fi