Nellys A Mama

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Nellys A Mama

• By Kiaya Lautenschlager

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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 doesnt think that because that she is a mom
  she got rid of the bright thing she just got sick
  of it.

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Source

• http//www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/12/01/showbuzz/ind
  ex.html2

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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Summary of Bs

• 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 lyrics were more insightful this time and
  the lyrics are more important to her.

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Source

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

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Original article

• 9/26/03 - 713 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.

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Original article source

• http//www.andpop.com/article/2742

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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.

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

• Math- In math it wouldnt 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 1950s or earlier.
  You could talk about the life style of a mom
  today compared to the Native Americans mothers in
  the 1600s. Talk about how mothers raise their
  children and the childrens education. Last but
  not least you could talk about The rich mothers
  compared to the poor mothers in the 1800s.

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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 its
  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.