«I adore, when music is in the attention center when borders of genres when excitation when people argue» reigns break, - so the autobiography of Nelli Furtado which it then still the teenager, dispatched together with own demos-cartridges and amateur photos to the most different labels, in hope that somebody eventually will pay to it attention began. Unless she could assume, speaking in love to musical passions, how many they will inflame round it and what operations will begin for right to catch it in number of clients of a label. Eventually the winner in this hot struggle had appeared DreamWorks, the main priority for which always was virtuosity of the executor. And Nelli Furtado, undoubtedly, was able to make impression: a vocal, as at the soul star, aplomb, as at the pop princess, and thus - deep enthusiasm for ethnic music.

Nelli Furtado was born on December, 2nd, 1978 in the Canadian city Victoria, state of British Columbia. Her parents have arrived to Canada from Portugal. More precisely even from the Azores located in the middle of Atlantic ocean. Her father was the mason, and mother worked as the parlourmaid in motel, and every summer during vacation of Nelli earned additionally, helping it. Parents always supported the daughter in its musical hobbies which were showed very much early. Hide review