Nelly & Kid Ce Pp Kiaya

Nelly’s A Mama

By Kiaya Lautenschlager

Nelly

• This is a picture of Nelly Furtado after having her child. This picture came from a story written about her and her baby girl.

CD

• This is the picture of the cover of the new CD that she made after she had her baby.

• This was dedicated to her daughter because of her inspiration from her daughter.

Resource 1A• SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado says she's getting the hang of

motherhood, and is especially happy because she can spend time with her new family on the road.

• Furtado, who turns 25 on Tuesday, recently gave birth to a baby girl named Nevis and has just released her second album, "Folklore."

• "It's actually pretty incredible," Furtado said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's a lot more instinctual than I thought."

• The father is the DJ in her band, Lil Jaz, whose given name is Jasper Gahunia.

• "It's really nice because we're on the road together," Furtado said. "We're like the singing Von Trapps."

• She said that unlike her last tour, when she made her bandmates wear "Nelly Furtado" T-shirts and spray-painted rainbow suits, she's going for a more mature look this time around.

• "It's not because I'm a mom now, but it's just that I got pretty sick of all those bright clothes. I think I just killed it. But that's what I wanted when I recorded 'Whoa, Nelly!' ... I wanted this bright, fun, wicked rollercoaster ride, and it was so amazing. I think for 'Folklore' I'm going for a black-sequined look."

Summary of A

• Nelly goes on the road with her family a lot and with the child its fun.

• Her daughters name is Nevis.

• She doesn’t think that because that she is a mom she got rid of the bright thing she just got sick of it.

Source

• http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/12/01/showbuzz/index.html#2

Resource 1B

• When most people think of folk music, they imagine acoustic guitars, harmonicas and maybe the odd banjo -- not turntables, string quartets, breakbeats, church organs, soccer anthems and tablas.

• But Nelly Furtado is not most people; she's an open-minded musical mixmaster with a palette that includes all kinds of music from all over the world.

• So when the 24-year-old Portuguese-Canadian hip-hop folksinger started working on the followup to her multi-platinum, Grammy-winning debut album, Whoa, Nelly! last year, she decided to incorporate all the sounds that make her who she is, and call it Folklore, out Nov. 25.

• "To me, folklore is just the idea of anyone, anywhere in the world, picking up what they have around them -- a guitar, a cooking pot, a turntable, whatever -- making music and talking about what's going on around them," she says. "I like how all-encompassing the title is. There's folk music all over the world. If you look at my CD collection, I'd say 40% is sung in another language, so I feel like a citizen of the world. Even hip-hop is folk; that's why it's so popular."

• So Folklore includes the sounds of Furtado's ancestral roots on the Portuguese Azores Islands, as well as those of her Canadian upbringing in British Columbia and Toronto. It's a fascinating combination of mainstream pop melodies, Brazilian rhythms, Portuguese fado, hip-hop grooves, church music, acoustic folk and funk.

Resource 2B

• The album was also heavily influenced by the fact that Furtado, who gave birth to her first child, Nevis, in September, wrote and produced most of the album while she was pregnant.

• "I think only one song dates from before the pregnancy," she says. "Most of them we wrote on the spot. In fact, virtually everything you hear was written, mixed and mastered in probably 12 weeks, which was cool. It's a spontaneous record with real emotions.

• "The thing about pregnancy is that it puts you in a different emotional state. You're a lot more mellow and grounded and preoccupied, and the music comes more easily 'cause you've got your perspective in order. Plus, your diaphragm moves, so you can sing a lot lower. On the last album I was singing a lot in a nasally tone, but on this one I think I show more range."

• The subject matter and lyrics also show a progression from Whoa, Nelly!'s youthful exuberance. With a baby, a boyfriend (her DJ, Lil Jaz) and a career all helping to ground her, Furtado is no longer like a bird, as her relentlessly popular first single claimed.

Resource 3B

• Consequently, a lot of the songs on Folklore refer to her maturation as both a person and an artist -- such as One-Trick Pony, Powerless and Try. Meanwhile, several others -- like Fresh Off The Boat, Island Of Wonder, Saturdays and Picture Perfect -- refer to the immigrant experience.

• "The lyrics on this record are important to me," she says. "They're more edgy and insightful this time. They could be about my own life or another person's life. Like Picture Perfect, which is about looking at my parents' photo albums and seeing pictures of my father when he first came to Canada and how perfect everything looked. And that's folklore -- it's my idea of what it was like then."

• Furtado was only 20 when Whoa, Nelly! came out in 2000 -- and she says she still has no explanation as to why it took off the way it did, going multi-platinum around the world and winning Junos, Grammys and numerous other awards for its astonished creator.

• "I have no idea, 'cause that's a weirdo album," she laughs. "I was listening to it about a month ago when I was finishing the new record, and I thought, 'This album's weird. How come five million people bought it? I don't get it.' It's so strange. It's like a really quirky album. But I'm proud of us for being able to push that into the mainstream and have people pick up on it.

Resource 4B

• Consequently, a lot of the songs on Folklore refer to her maturation as both a person and an artist -- such as One-Trick Pony, Powerless and Try. Meanwhile, several others -- like Fresh Off The Boat, Island Of Wonder, Saturdays and Picture Perfect -- refer to the immigrant experience.

• "The lyrics on this record are important to me," she says. "They're more edgy and insightful this time. They could be about my own life or another person's life. Like Picture Perfect, which is about looking at my parents' photo albums and seeing pictures of my father when he first came to Canada and how perfect everything looked. And that's folklore -- it's my idea of what it was like then."

• Furtado was only 20 when Whoa, Nelly! came out in 2000 -- and she says she still has no explanation as to why it took off the way it did, going multi-platinum around the world and winning Junos, Grammys and numerous other awards for its astonished creator.

• "I have no idea, 'cause that's a weirdo album," she laughs. "I was listening to it about a month ago when I was finishing the new record, and I thought, 'This album's weird. How come five million people bought it? I don't get it.' It's so strange. It's like a really quirky album. But I'm proud of us for being able to push that into the mainstream and have people pick up on it.

Resource 5B

• Fleck, who was contacted by co-producer Brian West when he was in town for the Toronto Blues Festival in July, plays banjo on Forca, which Furtado says is "probably" going to be the Portuguese soccer anthem for the European Cup in Lisbon.

• "They asked me to write a theme song for the team," she says proudly. "Forca means kickass, go for it, woo-hoo! -- that kind of thing. Soccer's a beautiful game, and there's a romantic nature to it that I wanted to capture.

• "And I really wanted to put a banjo on this record. I think it's been underused in pop music for a while, and it's a folk instrument and the album's called Folklore, so what better thing to do than get a banjo?

• "It's funny -- I like the idea that I'm this first-generation immigrant girl taking this Americana instrument and putting it in my funny, eclectic music. It's kind of saying that we all have our culture; you don't have to be from somewhere exotic."

Summary of B’s

• This new folk singer with Portuguese roots comes and makes a big splash in the music business.

• Most people think of folksingers as people who play the harmonic or maybe the banjo but not this girl.

• She wrote and produced this album wail she was pregnant.

• She said it was a very emotional state for her and it rose a lot of emotions during the production.

• She thought of her CD as quirky.

• A lot of the songs on her new CD were about maturation as a person and a artist.

• Her lyric’s were more insightful this time and the lyrics are more important to her.

Source

• http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicArtistsF/furtado_nelly.html

Original article• 9/26/03 - 7:13 PM ET• By Adam Gonshor Print Article• Email Article

• (andPOP) - Nelly Furtado might not "wanna be your baby girl," as she sang on her song "Baby Girl." But her daughter has no choice.

• Furtado gave birth to her first child, a baby girl named Nevis, on September 20 in Toronto, People Magazine reports. The magazine also says that the father is her DJ, Lil Jaz, whose real name is Jasper Gahunia.

• So what does Nevis mean? Nevis is one of the Leeward Islands of the eastern West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493, and colonized by the English after 1628.

• However, that doesn't explain why she chose the unique name of Nevis.

• Nevis is also a city in Minnesota. At press time, the Mayor of Nevis could not be reached.

Original article source

• http://www.andpop.com/article/2742

Who? What? Why? When? Implications: how dose it affect: Me, State, Nation, and World.

• Who- Nelly Furtado

• What- Had a baby

• Why- She was pregnant during making a song.

• When- September 20, 2003

• Implications: How dose this affect:

• Me-I gives me a new musical talent to look forward to.

• State-It gives something to talk about.

• Nation-It is an exciting fact of life that this is an accomplishment in the news industry and the music industry.

• World-This happening in Toronto makes people like the world more.

Bringing it up in Math, Science, English, and Social Studies.

• Math- In math it wouldn’t really be relative. You could use in determining how much the baby weighs in kilograms in stead of pounds. You could find out how tall the baby is in inches in stead of feet. You could use it to find out how many days it takes for the baby to grow a foot if it grows .04 inches a day. You could find out the ratio of age if the ratio x/y is the ratio the babies age to the mothers age what is the mothers if the baby is 3. Another is to find the difference of the babies weight now and two years from now.

Bringing it up in Math, Science, English, and Social Studies.

• Science- You could use it to determine the color of her hair, height, and weight through the table of science. You could talk about it in reproduction. You could also use in the discussion about DNA.You could talk about the time about human births compared to the time in elephants birth. So it takes 9 months for a human baby to be born it takes longer for a baby elephant to be born. You could also use science to determine what the height of the baby is going to be about.

Bringing it up in Math, Science, English, and Social Studies

• English- You could bring this up in English maybe by saying that an article about it has misspelled words in it. Also say they said a sentence wrong. They could also pronounce a word or words wrong in an article about it. This is a hard class to bring up this topic in but there are ways to do this. Like when you are studying about adverbs, you could say Nelly grew rather large during pregnancy. Or if you were studying nouns you could say, Nelly Furtado just gave birth to a newly born baby called Nevis.

Brining it up in Math, Science, English, and Social Studies

• Social Studies- You could use this to make a pie graph of all babies born that year, day, and country. Then you could also make a pictograph of girl babies born in that hospital in that year. You could talk about the life style of a pregnant woman today compared to the 1950’s or earlier. You could talk about the life style of a mom today compared to the Native Americans mothers in the 1600’s. Talk about how mothers raise their children and the children’s education. Last but not least you could talk about The rich mothers compared to the poor mothers in the 1800’s.

Article wrote from different view

– Hi I am Nevis being the baby in a musical family is a big thing. I am a little confused on what my place is going to be in this family. I am wondering what I will have to do in this family, will I have to sing, will I have to play an instrument in the band, or what. I like the new attention I am getting since I got here. Not knowing my place is confusing but it’s interesting for me. I like the fact I was excited to find out that my mother Nelly dedicated a new song to me in her new CD. I was kind of sorry for the pain I put my mother through, her being pregnant with me and her having to give birth to me. I found out from all the screaming that it must of hurt her more than it hurt me. But it is fun traveling in this new world on this fun bus with all of my family, it is very comforting to me. The music is also calming, its nice to go to sleep to, also the bus is kind of comfortable to. My mom looks after me and I think that this music thing wont be so bad.