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I wanted to discuss this for a long time.. but only now I remembered to open a thread for this. Something about Nelly Furtado that keeps annoying me...

Back in 2001, I'm Like a Bird was a huge hit here as well as Turn off The Light. Both songs were highly played on the major radio stations for months (TOTL is actually still being played once in a while). Then, on 2004, Try was choosed as the theme for a romantic couple of a sucessful soap opera and it was someking of a cult hit here. Now, with Loose, Promiscuous might have been one of the biggest hits on the past 5 years here, it was everywhere for more than a year. Say it Right and Give it to Me were also huge.

The problem is: A lot of people, and when I say this I really mean it... a lot of people doesn't know who the hell Nelly Furtado is. They know her songs, they like her songs, but they just doesn't know who sings it and most of them doesn't even know that the person who sings Say it Right is the same one singing Promiscuous or I'm Like a Bird.

For example, even if she had two huge hits from Loose, the cd itself never achieved the Top 40 here, because the name Nelly Furtado isn't well known to sell cds.

I don't know if its because the name 'Nelly Furtado' doesn't appear much on the media (gossip magazines, scandals, controversial interviews, etc). Or if its because she keeps changing her vocals and styles and because of that most of people doesn't relate her songs... I don't know. Does it happen in your country too or is it just here in Brazil?