Editing Nelly Furtado (section)

== Early life ==
Furtado was born on December 2, 1978, in [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]], [[British Columbia]], Canada. Her Portuguese parents, António José Furtado and Maria Manuela Furtado, were born on [[São Miguel Island]] in the [[Azores]]<ref name="dmg">[http://www.dailymusicguide.com/Interviews/nelly_furtado_interview.aspx Nelly Furtado Interview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525103401/http://www.dailymusicguide.com/Interviews/nelly_furtado_interview.aspx |date=May 25, 2008}} at DailyMusicGuide.com</ref> and had immigrated to Canada in the late 1960s.<ref name="rsjan01">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5918613/furtado_goes_portuguese/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625045453/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5918613/furtado_goes_portuguese/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 25, 2007 |title=Furtado Goes Portuguese |magazine= [[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=May 27, 2006}}</ref> Nelly was named after [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] gymnast [[Nellie Kim]].<ref name="ym" /> Her elder siblings are Michael Anthony and Lisa Anne. They were raised [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name="ym" /><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/nellyfurtado/articles/story/5931858/fly_girl |title=Fly Girl |magazine=Rolling Stone |quote= ...raised their brood according to the traditions of their Roman Catholic faith. 'It was a big part of my life,' Furtado says about church. 'Very exciting and colorful. It was just so customary that I didn't really take the time to think about what everything meant, besides the basics. I still believe in the [[Ten Commandments]] and the [[seven deadly sins|Seven Sins]]. It keeps me on the straight and narrow, though I get jealous of people sometimes who can just let go and give in to sin.' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408220527/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/nellyfurtado/articles/story/5931858/fly_girl |archive-date=April 8, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> At age four, she began performing and singing in Portuguese.<ref name="dmg" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.netparque.pt/NPShowStory.asp?id=315351 |title=Entrevista: Nelly Furtado |work=netparque.pt |access-date=November 3, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20080314173807/http%3A//www.netparque.pt/NPShowStory.asp?id%3D315351 |archive-date=March 14, 2008 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Furtado's first public performance was when she sang a duet with her mother at a church on [[Portugal Day]]. She began playing musical instruments at the age of nine, learning the [[trombone]], [[ukulele]] and, in later years, the guitar and keyboards. At the age of 12, she began writing songs,<ref name="ym" /> and as a teenager, she performed in a Portuguese [[marching band]].<ref name="rsjan01" /> Furtado has acknowledged her family as the source of her strong work ethic; she spent eight summers working as a chambermaid with her mother, along with her brother and sister, who was a housekeeper in Victoria.<ref name="amg">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic |class=artist |id=p451535/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Nelly Furtado Biography |website=Allmusic |access-date=May 27, 2006}}</ref>