{"id":242525,"date":"2025-10-27T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242525\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:14:07","slug":"nelly-furtado-says-shes-stepping-away-from-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242525\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Furtado says she&#8217;s stepping away from performing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado says she\u2019s stepping away from performing \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d and will be focusing on other artistic endeavours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Furtado, 46, made the announcement on her social media channels early Friday morning, which coincided with the 25th anniversary of the release of her first album \u2018Whoa, Nelly!\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The singer behind hits like \u201cPromiscuous\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m Like a Bird\u201d has been touring in support of her seventh studio album, 7, released in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She says 25 years later seeing her music reach a whole new generation of fans has been both \u201csurreal \u201d and \u201cjoyful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Furtado says she made a decision to step away and take on other creative and personal endeavours that would \u201cbetter suit this next phase of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Juno and Grammy award winner says she enjoyed her musical career and will always identify as a songwriter, which she describes as a hobby she was lucky enough to make into career and still enjoys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the post, Furtado thanked all those who made her musical dreams come true and wished a next generation of musical talent years of success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 26, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado says she\u2019s stepping away from performing \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d and will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[76,49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-242525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242525","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=242525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}