“I Love How She Looks”: Nelly Furtado Rings In 2025 With Empowering Bikini Photos

“I always had such a good team around me, that was family. My team around me felt so solid and really looking out for my best interests. And I think I was just raised right,” she told the outlet.

“My mom was really strong, and so is her mom, and her mom, and her mom—a very matriarchal family , in general, on both sides, all my grandmothers, and great-grandmothers,” said the artist, who has three children of her own.

“So I was given a really solid kind of sense of assertiveness, I’m going to call it,” she continued. “So that was a good tool for me to navigate the music industry. And I was given really solid advice from a young age, luckily, from very paternal sort of people around me. So I was lucky, I was one of the lucky ones.”

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In 2024, the I’m Like a Bird singer released her first album in seven years with her 21-year-old daughter, Nevis Gahunia.

“It was a discovery process for both of us … I was just a fly on the wall, absorbing as much as I could,” Nevis previously said about making music with her mom for the album, 7 .

“Being treated like a colleague in that environment was really special and meaningful,” the youngster continued. “The process a hundred percent brought us closer together, and the level of respect and understanding for each other just evolved into something new that we had never been able to access before.”