This just in... er, kinda... more like coming out!

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Nelly Furtado Expecting Child This Fall
Wed Aug 13,11:00 AM ET

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It's the fall of new releases for Nelly Furtado. Not only will the Grammy Award-winning singer release her second album, but she and her longtime boyfriend are expecting their first child in September. Two months later on November 25, the singer releases Fresh Off The Boat, the eagerly-anticipated follow-up to her multi-platinum selling debut album Whoa, Nelly!.



Billboard reports the first single to be released from Fresh Off The Boat is expected to be "Powerless." The singer's label hopes to get the track out by the end of the summer.


Fresh Off The Boat is being recorded in Los Angeles and Toronto. The set features a guest appearance from Mike Einziger of Incubus.


Furtado took home the Grammy Award for best female pop vocal performance for "I'm Like A Bird" in 2002.

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June7 thinking of an alibi for where I was about 7 mo's ago...

I found a cool article here:

http://www.shitontheradio.com/

Nelly Furtado's Having a Baby
First child, second album due in fall

By Andrew Strickman, Rolling Stone
Aug 12, 2003

While recording her second CD, Fresh Off the Boat, Nelly Furtado has been keeping a big secret: She's pregnant. The twenty-four-year-old Grammy-winning singer and her boyfriend are expecting their first child in September.

But don't expect maternity to be a theme on Boat, the follow-up to Furtado's multi-platinum 2000 debut, Whoa, Nelly! "Two or three years from now, you'll hear the baby record," she says. "I take a while to reflect on things."

Furtado has been working on Fresh Off the Boat, the title referencing the Canadian singer's Portuguese roots, in Los Angeles and her home base of Toronto. She has again teamed with production duo Track and Field (Brian West and Gerald Eaton), but the album is different from the hip-hop-flavored Whoa: The likely single, "Powerless," has a stripped-down folk sound; and Furtado compares the vibe of "Explode" to the Smashing Pumpkins' "1979." Another track, the moving "Saturday" was inspired by Furtado's years cleaning hotel rooms with her mother.

Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger and drummer Joey Waronker (R.E.M., Beck) are among the guests, and Furtado plans to have Bela Fleck add banjo to the song "Forca!"

Forca? "It means 'Go for it -- kick ass!'" explains Furtado, "in Portuguese."

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The likely single, "Powerless," has a stripped-down folk sound; and Furtado compares the vibe of "Explode" to the Smashing Pumpkins' "1979."

Now that sounds REALLY cool! Go Nelly!

Cool idea: Nelly should do an album of all Prince covers.