Nelly Furtado

Neil Smith, BBC News Entertainment reporter, talked to chart-topping pop singer Nelly Furtado about her music, career and her hopes for the future.

'Reinvigorated' Nelly cuts Loose
By Neil Smith Entertainment reporter, BBC News

Looking out the window of Nelly Furtado's hotel suite in central London, the skies look overcast and gloomy. From where the diminutive Canadian pop star is sitting, though, the view must look pretty good.

Her third album Loose is her most successful to date and has spawned two hit singles - Maneater, her first UK number one, and Promiscuous, her first number one in the US.

A five-continent tour is planned for early 2007, and earlier this month she was named best pop/rock artist at the World Music Awards.

One imagines that this acclaim and attention must feel all the sweeter given the tepid response her second album, Folklore, received in 2003.

But if Nelly is feeling vindicated or triumphant, she certainly does not show it.

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