{"id":225916,"date":"2025-10-26T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225916\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:16:10","slug":"nelly-furtado-announces-shes-quitting-music-for-the-foreseeable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225916\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Furtado announces she’s quitting music for the ‘foreseeable future’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It comes as the pop star revealed she had faced a slew of cruel body-shaming attacks from online trolls<\/p>\n

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Nelly Furtado sings at Mayfield depot during Manchester Pride 2025.<\/p>\n

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Pop icon Nelly Furtado has revealed she’s stepping back from music for the ‘foreseeable future’ in a shock online announcement.<\/p>\n

Taking to social media on Saturday, the Maneater hitmaker thanked fans for their support as she celebrated the 25th anniversary of her debut album Whoa, Nelly!.<\/p>\n

Posting a throwback image of herself preparing for her debut release aged 20, the singer made the announcement that she is now preparing for “the next phase of my life”.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have decided to step away from performance for the foreseeable future and pursue some other creative and personal endeavors that I feel would better suit this next phase of my life,\u201d Furtado wrote in the Instagram post. <\/p>\n

\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. <\/p>\n

Adding that she will “identify as a songwriter forever,” the hitmaker reflected on her love of music and the joy that has come from her music capturing a new, younger audience in recent years.<\/p>\n

Taking to Instagram, the 20-year-old posted the image of her shopping for a \u201cpink dress and some sparkly platform shoes to perform in.\u201d <\/p>\n

“25 years ago today my first album Whoa, Nelly! was released,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“In the first slide I am 20 years old, about to play my first show as a professional artist at Lilith Fair . I went down to a store called \u201cOriginal\u201d on Queen West in Toronto and shopped for that pink dress and some sparkly platform shoes to perform in . It was so meaningful and my artist self felt so actualized.<\/p>\n

“25 years later., my music has reached a whole new generation of fans and I couldn\u2019t be happier about that.”<\/p>\n

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Nelly Furtardo has announced she’s stepping down from music.<\/p>\n

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The singer went on to “deeply thank all of those who have worked so hard to help me make my pop dreams come true”.<\/p>\n

Furtado ended her post with a recent video of the crowd cheering back at her during her performance at Citadel Music Festival in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Signing off, the Canadian popstar added: “Thank you and goodnight!”<\/p>\n

It follows her long-awaited comeback in 2024, releasing her newest album \u20187\u2019.<\/p>\n

The release made her the latest popstar to attempt a return to the limelight, riding a wave of 90s nostalgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes as the pop star revealed she had faced a slew of cruel body-shaming attacks from online…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-225916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}