Like a Bard?
Nelly Furtado has revealed she learned how to write plays in the five years between albums.
“I took a playwriting class at the University of Toronto,” she said in an interview with Billboard, “to pursue a few ideas I had.
“I took some time to pursue some personal passions. I did everything from pottery classes to sewing classes.”
Furtado, 38, plans to drop her sixth studio album The Ride at the end of March. It’s her first since The Spirit Indestructible five years ago.
The Canadian singer, who has 10 Juno Awards as well as a Grammy and a Latin Grammy, told Billboard she also spent a lot of time in Kenya working with Free the Children.
“We do youth engagements, community partnerships, empowerment in different places and workshops with girls,” explained Furtado, who is a mom to 13-year-old Nevis.
The Ride, Furtado’s sixth studio album, was produced by John Congleton.
“I’m calling it my ‘hangover album’: The party was fun, but then you crash on the ground and wake up the next day and feel kind of cool, but have stuff to deal with,” she said.
“That’s what all the songs are about.”