SEATTLE — With over 20 billion streams and 35 million albums sold, Nellie Furtado is a hitmaker, and a neighbor to the PNW. The artist, who grew up in Victoria BC, gave us the mega hits "Say it Right," "Promiscuous" and "Maneater" - the pop soundtrack of the aughts.
Songs so strong there’s a whole new generation of fans hyping them on TikTok - inspiring this Grammy Award winning pop icon to make new music.
“People started kind of uploading my old songs on TikTok and doing trending videos to it, and then a lot of DJs started remixing a lot of my old material at the same time. So, I kept kind of hearing my music everywhere, and it felt like I was called back. It felt like the industry called me back to make more music,” Nelly Furtado said during a recent interview promoting her new single, "Corazón." It’s part of a much-anticipated studio album, "7," scheduled to be released in September of 2024.
"Corazón" is a collab with Columbia’s Bomba Estéreo. And the single is solid proof this artist is getting better with age.
“I'm a woman in my 40s now, and I think I've been through a lot of life lessons, and I'm able to put that those lessons in the music. I mean, that's what the song 'Corazon' is about,” said Furtado.
This Canadian artist adds that Seattle was one of her musical influences:
“All my favorite radio stations as a kid were all from Seattle, because I had a radio when I was 12, a little radio with an antenna in my bedroom. And in order to get the Seattle stations, I'd have to put up the antenna, and I think I might have even added a bit of tin foil,” Furtado laughed. “I used to listen to KUBE a lot back in the day. I'm lucky I grew up in Victoria, because Seattle's music scene is so epic, but I feel like it got to experience it somehow. You know what I mean?”
Furtado says she hopes to play Seattle live when she tours for her new album.
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