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Grammy-winning Canadian singer Nelly Furtado plans to take her two-year-old daughter Nevis with her as she tours the globe over the coming months to promote her new hit album "Loose".
"She loves to travel and today it's easier to fly with children. Conditions are better but it's like a circus. It's crazy but we love it," the 27-year-old told daily Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha.
"Being a mother changed me. I am more feminine, more confident as a woman. It is all very natural, an evolution," she added.
"Loose", Furtado's third album, debuted last week as the top selling album in the United States.
On the Billboard singles chart in the United States Furtado's "Promiscuous" leads while in Britain her "Maneater" tops the chart for the third week. Both come from her latest album.
Furtado grew up in the Canadian west coast province of British Columbia, the daughter of immigrant parents from Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands.
She won a Grammy for best female pop vocal performance for her 2001 multiplatinum debut album "Whoa, Nelly" but her 2003 follow-up "Folklore", which used more acoustic grooves, was less successful.
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AFP 031944 GMT 07 06
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