In 2012 she released her last album, "Indestructible The Spirit", and now, at the end of 2016, Nelly Furtado returned to the scene with their sixth studio album "The Ride" betting better luck.
(Here's "Pipe Dreams" theme of the recent album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dardmy1eNw)
And it is that after having shone strongly in the first years of the third millennium, with awards and more than 40 million copies sold, the fifth album would not let him taste good success. That's how Nelly Furtado preferred to retire and devote time to other things.
And literally were other things he made several kinds of odd jobs, including a job in a record store.
"So I could really realize why I really wanted to be a musician," he said in an interview that replied the German agency Dpa, and in these works, said that people treated her open and frank way, which helped him back to making music.
"On stage and before the spotlights one lives a kind of parallel world," said the Canadian singer of Portuguese origin: "You do not really feel what people think and neither knows one's place in life".