Will Nelly Furtado Break Down Pop Music Language Barriers With “Manos Al Aire”?
Will Nelly Furtado Break Down Pop Music Language Barriers With “Manos Al Aire”? Saturday June 27, 2009 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Three years ago Nelly Furtado made a dramatic transformation into a pop-dance artist and conquered the pop charts with “Promiscuous,” the biggest single of the summer of 2006. Now the Canadian singer of Portuguese ethnicity will be heading in another new direction by releasing her first Spanish-language album Mi Plan which is due in stores September 29, 2009. The first single “Manos Al Aire” (translates to “Hands In the Air”) goes to radio stations Monday, June 29, 2009. It is firmly in pop-dance mode. In recent years it has not been unusual for Spanish-speaking artists to hit the pop charts in the US, but they have not had s
