The Record, a music mag out of Bombay, ran an interesting interview with Nelly Furtado:
My daughter Nevis [with her DJ, Lil Jazz] is actually a quarter East Indian so I have family there now…… I grew up with a lot of Asian and Indian friends speaking Punjabi and Hindi. And I grew up watching a lot of bhangra, Bollywood, religious music and we even had it on television on Saturdays. Actually sometimes while I would clean hotel rooms… my friends invited me to sing at their Indian cultural festival when I was about 18 years old, and my friend’s father said I should sing in Hindi, and I really liked it. I learnt Kabhi Kabhi and I really like Lata Mangeshkar and of course Asha Bhosle who I did a little collaboration with…
I’ve already done Indian remixes in the past. In particular I had an ‘I’m Like A Bird’ remix… And Josh (the Indian band who did the remix), are Canadian — they’re from Montreal actually… It has a lot of hip hop energy to it.
Heck, with that surname she could’ve been Goan :) Here’s a previous post on the Josh remix of ‘Powerless’ (thanks, Sajit).
