Nelly Furtado Net Worth (Updated 2023) – Bio Overview

Nelly Furtado is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress, from Victoria, British Columbia who has a net worth of $40 Million as of 2023. She is one of the most prominent singers of all in the music industry and has been releasing albums and hit tracks for many decades.

Furtado’s hit singles such as  “I’m Like a Bird” and later track “Promiscuous” no doubt defined an era. The British Columbian-born artist dominated the music scene back in the day but despite her impact, she slowly started to retreat from the spotlight.

Nelly Furtado may not be in the spotlight any longer but she still has a net worth of a whopping 40 million dollars. Her breakthrough single I’m Like a Bird led her to win the Grammy award in 2002.

Furtado rose to fame after releasing her debut album Whoa, Nelly! which became commercially successful hitting the Billboard Hot 100 with two popular singles. Nelly has a pretty successful career in which she has managed to sell more than 40 million records worldwide and won numerous awards. So in this post, we are going to talk about the total net worth of Nelly Furtado her much more. 

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Early Life

Nelly Kim Furtado was born on the 2nd of December 1978 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to Potagues parents António José Furtado, and Maria Manuela. The singer and songwriter didn’t necessarily come from a musical family but it seems like she knew it was her calling from a very young age and her mother did like to sing.

Her mother Maria was a hotel cleaner while her father António worked as a stonemason. Inhaling from São Miguel Island in the Azores Portugal, they immigrated to Canada in the late 1960s. Nelly was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim and her brother’s name is Michael Anthony Furtado she also has a sister Lisa Anne Furtado.

All the siblings were raised Roman Catholic. Nelly Furtado began performing and singing first in Portagues at the age of four. Her first public performance was when she sang a duet with her mother at church on Portugal Day.

The sounds of Nelly’s heritage had a strong influence on her even when she was listening to hip hop dance, pop R&B, Rock, as well as Brazilian and Indian music. When she wasn’t busy working as a maid helping out her mother, Nelly learned to play instruments in her free time.

At the age of nine she started learning the trombone, and ukulele, then in later years came the guitar and keyboard. Nelly began writing her own songs by the age of 12 and as a teen, she was in a Portagues marching band. She credited her family as the source of her own strong work ethic considering she actually spent a total of eight summers working as a chambermaid with her mom and Victoria.

Career

During a visit with her sister in Tronto in 1995, Nelly first met a member of the hip-hop group  Plains of Fascination, Tallis Newkirk. A year later she would contribute vocals to their album called  Join the Ranks on the track Waitin’ 4 the Streets. 

After Nelly graduated from Mount Douglas Secondary School in 1996 she moved to Tronto to live with her sister Lisa and the year after she formed a trip-hop duo called Nelstar alongside Newkirk. In the end, Nelly believed the style of the musical duo was too segregated and didn’t accurately represent her persona or her vocal ability. She left the group with plans to move back to British Columbia.

In 1997 Nelly performed at the Honey Jam talent show which attracted the attention of the singer Gerald Eaton of the band The Philosopher Kings, who then approached her to write some music with him. Gerald and another member of the group Brian West helped Nelly with producing a demo and while she left Tronto she did come back to record more material with them.

This content from these sessions was shot by record companies which finally led to Nelly’s 1999 record deal with DreamWorks signed by A&R executive Beth Halper. That same year Nelly’s first single Party’s Just Begun (Again) was released and on the soundtrack for the Brokedown Palace. 

Breakthrough

Nelly first rose to fame with her trip-hop-inspired album Whoa, Nelly! in 2000 which became a critical and commercial hit. It was known internationally and three singles from the album were major hits including “I’m Like a Bird”, “Turn Off the Light”, and “…On the Radio (Remember the Days).

Nelly’s debut album received 4 Grammy nominations in 2002 and her debut single won the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Not to mention her work was praised for the innovative mixing of genres and sounds. Furthermore, as per Maclean’s magazine, Nelly has sold 6 million copies worldwide as of August 2006.

On top of that, her work was praised for the innovative mixing of genres and sounds. Following the release of the album, Furtado headlined the burn-in spotlight tour and also emerged on Moby’s Area: One tour. Furtado’s second album titled Folklore was released in 2003.

The lead single was “Powerless (Say What You Want) and the second was the ballad “Try”. However, the album was nowhere near as successful as Nelly’s debut album. 2006 was the time for Nelly to make her comeback and she did that perfectly with her third album entitled Loose.

After the spontaneous decision, she made while creating the album. The project Loose was a smash hit and became her best-selling album with more than 12 million copies sold worldwide and remains the most successful album of her career thus far.

On this album which was mainly produced by Timbaland, Nelly experienced sounds from R&B hip-hop and 80s music and she described the sound herself as punk-hop. 

The album had 4 successful tracks all of which reached number one worldwide such as “Promiscuous”, “Maneater”, “Say It Right”, and all good things come to an end. Nelly’s collab with Timbaland in 2007 titled “Give It to Me” also topped the chart.

In terms of her music career, Nelly released a few more albums her first one is Spanish titled Mi Plan in 2009 which won her a Latin Grammy Award, and then in 2012, she dropped The Spirit Indestructible. She then took a five-year break where she spent her time traveling as well as doing charity work with saving the children.

After her 2012 album Nelly decided to split with her manager and go independent releasing her indie-pop sixth album The Ride, in 2017 with her own label named Nelstar Entertainment.

After her last album in 2017, likely, she will never make a comeback to mainstream music. Apart from releasing her tracks, Nelly collaborated with many other artists including her work with Alex Cuba for the track “Is Anybody Out There” in 2010. 

Other Ventures

Instead of only focusing on music Nelly also tried acting working on the romantic comedy movie titled A Date with Miss Fortune in 2016 as well as some episodes of CSI New York. Recently focusing on music and acting Nelly has been involved in a lot of Philanthropic work including the Charity artist against Racism.

In 2017 Furtado has stated she was residing in Toronto and New York City while other sources claim she further has a property in British Columbia. While either way Nelly Furtado has sold over 40 million records worldwide becoming one of the most successful Canadian artists out there.

She also owns various awards throughout her career including the Grammy Award, a Latin Grammy Award, a Billboard Music Award, 10 Junos, a BRIT Award, and many others.

Apart from having success in the music industry, in 2006, Nelly suffered from a nervous breakdown which would lead her to take a step back from the theme and music. Nelly explained the incident in more recent years “I had a nervous breakdown on stage, I was on the Loose tour and my daughter was with me’, I was exhausted”. 

Personal Life

Nelly Furtado and composer Jasper Gahunia started dating back in 2001. Previously the two had been close friends for a long time. Nelly welcomed her daughter named Nevis Chetan, in 2003. The superstardom at the same time was quite demanding. She had her daughter with her boyfriend Jasper but they would later call it quits in 2005. 

In 2008 Nelly Furtado married a sound engineer Demacio Castellon who she worked on her album Loose. By 2017 the couple had broken up and Nelly announced she was single again. But in recent years Nelly revealed on her Instagram that she now has two more children. 

Biography

Nelly Furtado Net Worth

As of 2023, Nelly Furtado’s Net Worth is estimated to be around $40 million. She is one of the richest singers in the country and has released numerous hits music throughout her successful career. In 2006 it was revealed by Nelly that she once turned down US$500 thousand to pose fully clothed in Playboy, Magazine.

The singer accumulated a lot of wealth from releasing tracks as well as her appearance on television shows, and movies. She was also featured in a Canadian TV commercial where she endorsed the “Turn Out the Light” back in 2007.

Nelly Furtado’s annual income is more than 3 million dollars. She also has a YouTube channel where she has over 2 million subscribers. The music video for her song Say It Right amassed more than 840 million views. 

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