Nelly Furtado: I used to be in a high school gang
Nelly Furtado used to be in a high school gang.
The singer admits she was in a group called the ‘Portuguese Mafia’ when she was at school but got thrown out because she wasn’t very good at throwing stones.
She said: “I was in a high school gang called the Portuguese Mafia. But I was the most hopeless rebel of all time. We drove around in a van with the windows covered in black paper. We specialised in crashing parties and throwing stones at buses. I was pretty good at crashing parties but the other gang members questioned whether I could throw the stones hard enough to break the windows – so they threw me out of the gang.”
The ‘I’m Like A Bird’ hitmaker also revealed how she once had a near-death experience live on stage after she fell 10ft off it.
She told live magazine: “I thought I was going to die when I fell 10ft off stage. In 2002 I was performing at a big arena in New Orleans. I was in the middle of singing the most sensitive part of ‘I’m Like A Bird’ when I stumbled and fell 10ft to the ground. The crowd seemed to think it was part of the show. ‘She’s singing about being like a bird and she’s trying to fly. How cool.’ But I was hurt.”
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