Nelly Furtado weds

Grammy-winning Canadian singer Nelly Furtado was secretly married over the summer to the sound engineer on her last album, she revealed to Entertainment Tonight Canada.

She and Demacio Castellon were hitched on July 19, she said. "I love it."

"I just feel kind of free and relaxed and more in tune with trying not to be so stressed out," she said. "I'm happy ... I'm excited about the future."

Furtado, 29, skyrocketed to fame in 2000 with her debut album "Whoa, Nelly!," which included the hit single "I'm Like a Bird."

She won a Grammy for best female pop vocal performance for the multi-platinum debut album, but her 2003 follow-up "Folklore", which used more acoustic grooves, was less successful.

The newlyweds worked together on Furtado's third album "Loose" in 2006, with its songs "Promiscuous" and "Maneater" briefly topping the charts in the US and Britain, respectively.

Furtado grew up in the westernmost Canadian city of Victoria, the daughter of immigrant parents from Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands.

The singer has a child, four-year-old daughter Nevis, from a previous relationship that ended in 2005.

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