Nelly Kim Furtado was born on 2nd December 1978, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, of Portuguese descent. She is a singer and songwriter who became famous all over the world in 2000, when she released the hit “I’m Like a Bird”. Among her most famous number one hits there are the songs “Promiscuous” and “Say It Right”, both from her third album, “Loose”.
So just how rich is Nelly Furtado? Sources estimate that the singer`s net worth is $25 million, money having been made mostly in the music industry. Nelly Furtado has sold more than 40 million records around the world and she has also been making money from touring, sales and royalties. In 2008, she was number 17 in Forbes` Top 20 Highest Grossing Females in Music with an annual income of $7 million.
Nelly Furtado Net Worth $25 Million
Nelly Furtado sang in public for the first time when she was four, in a duet with her mother, for celebrating Portugal Day at church. When she was nine she started playing the trombone and the ukulele, followed later by the guitar and keyboards. When she was 18, she participated in a talent show in Toronto, called the “Honey Jam”, in which she was seen by the manager of the pop group Philosopher Kings, who asked Nelly to sing with his band. Soon after recording with some of the Philosopher Kings’ members, Nelly Furtado signed a deal with DreamWorks Records. Her net worth had begun.
The singer released her first album, “Whoa, Nelly!”, in 2000 and the record became an immediate international success, receiving four Grammy nominations. Nelly’s debut single, “I’m like a Bird”, brought the singer an award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2002. A year later Nelly released a second album, called “Folklore”, which included “Força”, the song written for the 2004 European Football Championship. Her third album, named “Loose”, was released in 2006. In 2009, she also recorded a Spanish album, which was called “Mi plan”. In 2010, a new album containing the singer`s greatest hits, “The Best of Nelly Furtado”, was released and, in 2012, Nelly Furtado released another album, called “The Spirit Indestructible”. Her music was featured in several soundtracks for films and television shows, including “Six Feet Under”, “Velo de novia”, “The Princess Diaries”, “Melrose Place”, and “The Smurfs 2”. All these contributed steadily to her net worth.
Nelly Furtado has had five important tours, which added money to her income: “Burn in the Spotlight Tour”, in 2001, “Come as You Are Tour”, in 2004, “Get Loose Tour”, between 2007 and 2008, “Mi Plan Tour”, in 2010, and “The Spirit Indestructible Tour”, in 2013: her net worth improved accordingly.
Besides her career as a musician, Nelly Furtado is also known as an actress. She had roles in the television series “CSI: NY”, “Max Payne”, “Anne Murray: Friends & Legends”, “Score: A Hockey Musical”, “The Work of Art”, “90210”, and “A Date with Miss Fortune”. Of course these contributed to her net worth, too.
In her personal life, Nelly Furtado married to Demacio Castellon in 2008, and has a daughter from a previous relationship with Jasper Gahunia. She lives in a house in Toronto estimated to be valued at $1.4 million. The singer is involved in several charity projects, and she donated over $1 million to the “Free the Children” organization, money about which the media had written was made performing for the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album, Juno Award for Single of the Year, Juno Award for Album of the Year, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Album, Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist, Juno Award for Artist of the Year, Juno...
Music Groups
Young Artists for Haiti
Nominations
Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Grammy Award for Best New Artist, MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video, MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video, MTV Video Music Award for Best Electronic Video, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Song, MTV Europe Music A...
Movies
Score: A Hockey Musical, Max Payne, The Making of What's Going On: An All-Star Tribute, Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
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[on working with producer Rodney Jerkins and his music] When you meet people like that, you've got to really deliver. I like feeling like that, like I've gotta hit it out of the park. Every time I pulled up to his studio, I felt like a little kid riding her bike over to a friend's house, saying, 'What are we going to play today?'I took the time to celebrate it. I knew that you can never recreate those moments. They happen once and they are gone.
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I've come to my rose-colored nostalgia moment, where I'm celebrating home. It's taken many years to get to the point where I feel lucky.
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My long-term goal is to be independent, quite frankly. I got quite spoiled doing Mi Plan, and in the context of my English projects I've had a lot of creative freedom. It's quite addictive, that creative independence. You start to crave it more and more as you move forward.
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This idea that artists are always going to make the right choices and do the right thing is kind of a falsehood. That's what my songs are about. Falling down and getting back up again.
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I remember being five years old and it being like there was an orchestra in my mind and there was this soundtrack playing. I didn't know where it was coming from, but it was there. What I'm saying is that I tried on the pop hat for awhile and it was fun. But I'm ready to try new things.
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I put pressure on myself to be musically fresh, which is different from being trendy or being current. I like a fusion of sounds, just as long as it's funky.
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Gave birth to daughter, Nevis Chetan on September 20, 2003, at the age of 24. Her father is Furtado's ex-boyfriend, Jasper Gahunia.
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She was to star opposite Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan in the 2006 award wining film" Rang De Basanti ( Paint It Yellow). She declined the offer as she was very busy with her music career.
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Her middle name is Kim.
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Announced her 2007 world tour, which will start in Canada. [2006]
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Released second song from her new album 'Promiscuous' with Timbaland [August 2006]
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Come-back song from her new album 'Loose': 'Man-eater' reaches No. 1 in the British Charts [June 2006]
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Preparing 3rd Album "Loose" for Spring 2k6. Has a role in the film "Nobody's Hero". [December 2005]
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Ranked #49 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
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Engaged to sound engineer Demacio 'Demo' Castellon [July 6, 2007].
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According to an MTV interview, she self-taught herself how to sing by listening to Mariah Carey albums.
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Ranked #26 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
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Her mother was a motel cleaner.
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Her father was a stonemason originally from Portugal. He couldn't speak English when he first came to Canada.
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Will host the Juno Awards on April 1st, 2007 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Her parents named her after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim.
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Her third album "Loose" was released in June 2006 and reached #1 in US, Canadian and German charts. Four lead singles were released in four different regions of the world, and the "European" song "Maneater" became her first #1 in the UK single charts.
Graduated from Mount Douglas Secondary School in Victoria, B.C.
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She also scored some awards for her work, including Canadian Juno Awards for best new solo artist and best songwriter in 2001 and a Grammy in 2002 for best female pop performance ("Like A Bird.")
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Perhaps as a nod to her diverse influences, she was invited to open for U2 and perform on Moby's Area: One Tour alongside the techno-rocker.
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Ranked #58 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002)
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Her song "Força", in which she sang both English and Portuguese, was the official theme of the Euro 2004 (European Football Championships) in Portugal.
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Parents are Maria Manuela Furtado and Antonio José Furtado. Has a sister, Lisa Anne Furtado, and a brother, Michael Anthony Furtado.
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(Nov 25th 2003) Second album "Folklore" released.
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Daughter Nevis (named after the island on which she was conceived) born on September 20, 2003, in Toronto to Nelly and then boyfriend Jasper Gahunia (aka DJ Lil' Jaz).
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Won "Best Pop Vocal, Female" Grammy for her song "I'm Like A Bird" (2002).
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Voted one of the "Fun and Fearless Females" by Cosmopolitan Magazine (2002.)
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Sang a Hindi song named Kabhi Kabhie.
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Speaks Portuguese fluently.
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Is Canadian of Portuguese decent.
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Learned to play trombone and ukulele at age nine, keyboards at age 11 and began composing at age 13.
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Formed (and an ex-member of) trip-hop group Nelstar.
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Played eight dates on "the village stage" at Lilith Fair.