{"id":100992,"date":"2025-10-25T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100992\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:41:07","slug":"nelly-furtado-announces-live-concert-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100992\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Furtado Announces Live Concert Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nelly_furtado\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nelly Furtado<\/a> is ready to turn off the stage lights.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cI\u2019m Like a Bird\u201d singer announced a major career shift, revealing her plans to take an indefinite break from live shows and touring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have decided to step away from performance for the foreseeable future,\u201d she wrote in a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nellyfurtado\/p\/DQLkry9jQL0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> Oct. 23, \u201cand pursue some other creative and personal endeavors that I feel would better suit this next phase of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old went on to thank her fans and collaborators \u201cfor all the years of fun, community and wonder\u201d since the release of her debut album Whoa, Nelly! in October 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have enjoyed my career immensely, and I still love writing music as I have always seen it as a hobby I was lucky enough to make into a career,\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019ll identify as a songwriter forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nelly also shared a positive message for budding musicians hoping to follow in her footsteps, wishing \u201cmany years of fruitful and passionate performance\u201d to the \u201cnew generation of artists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelly Furtado is ready to turn off the stage lights. The \u201cI\u2019m Like a Bird\u201d singer announced a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-100992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}