Nelly Furtado posted a long reflection on the 25th anniversary of her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, earlier today on her social media, but it wasn\u2019t until half-way through that she dropped a bombshell: she will be stepping away from the stage to pursue other ventures.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have decided to step away from performance for the foreseeable future and pursue some other creative and personal endeavours that I feel would better suit this next phase of my life,\u201d wrote the 46-year-old mother of three on Instagram.<\/p>\n
It is not the first time the Toronto-based, Victoria-born singer-songwriter, who has sold over 45 million albums worldwide, has stepped away from the spotlight. She did so after the release of her 2017 album, The Ride, until Drake brought her out as a surprise guest at Toronto\u2019s HISTORY for his All Canadian North Stars concert, to perform her breakthrough single, \u201cI\u2019m Like A Bird,\u201d and 2006\u2019s smash \u201cPromiscuous.\u201d It was the encouragement she needed to write and record her next album, 7, which she dropped last year and has been touring globally.<\/p>\n
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Furtado was essentially discovered at Toronto\u2019s Honey Jam all-female showcase by The Philosopher Kings frontman Gerald Eaton whose manager Chris Smith added her to his roster. Along with fellow P-Kings member Brian West, they created the demo that then-lawyer Chris Taylor would shop and land a deal with DreamWorks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
FANS REACT<\/p>\n
Online, fans of the beloved pop singer are reacting to the news with shock and admiration. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhoa Nelly is so special to me it\u2019s so creative and inspiring. It\u2019s one of my favorite albums and have listened to it probably thousands of times \ud83e\ude75\ud83d\udc9b such a goodie for a road trip tooo!\u201d one Instagram user said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSad to see you won\u2019t be performing in the foreseeable future, but I\u2019ll patiently wait for your return to the stage as you have given me some of the best concerts in my life,\u201d another said. <\/p>\n
\u201cCan\u2019t wait to see what you do! Your music will always be part of my formative experiences! Thanks for showing us how to grow up, and show up!\u201d one fan shared.<\/p>\n
\u201cTake your time and come back often because we will always love you and appreciate your art!\u201d another fan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelly Furtado posted a long reflection on the 25th anniversary of her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, earlier today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,112233],"class_list":["post-237755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-nelly-furtado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}