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Nelly Furtado was born one of three children to Azorean-Portuguese parents in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. At the age of nine started to learn playing trombone and ukulele, followed-up by the keyboard at eleven. When she was thirteen, Nelly also began composing her own songs. After finishing high school, (Mt. Doug Secondary), Furtado moved to Toronto where she formed the trip hop duo Nelstar* in 1997 with local musician Tallisman with whom she had already worked the previous summer, contributing vocals to the song “Waitin’ 4 the Streets” on Join the Ranks, the 1996 album of his band Plains of Fascination. “Like”, one of the songs Nelstar* recorded, received a VideoFACT grant to cover for the production of a music video, but Furtado felt the musical style of the Nelstar* recordings did not represent her personality and vocal talent, and the clip was never released… @