Pop singer Nelly Furtado made multiplatinum waves in the music industry with her 2006 album, Loose. She teamed up with super producer Timbaland to create such number one hits as “Promiscuous” and “Say it Right.” According to the Associated Press, Furtado plans on making a dramatic creative and lingual shift for her latest album, by performing all of the tracks in Spanish.
Timbaland is being sued for stealing music from Finnish artist, Janne Suni. According to Kernal Records (who acquired Suni’s composition in 2007), the popular producer used “original and central identifying melodic, harmonic and rhythmic components” of the song “Acidjazzed Evening,” to create Nelly Furtado‘s “Do It” off of her latest album, Loose.
The Daily Swarm also reports that “Kernel Records has also named the Mosley Music Group, Interscope-Geffen-A&M and Universal Music Distribution as co-defendants in the lawsuit” because of the single’s inclusion on the multi-platinum selling album and a live CD/DVD.
When Timbaland was asked about the lawsuit in a 2007 interview on WWDC’s “Elliott in the Morning,” he replied with the following:
Nelly Furtado has decided to try her hand as a label head and, unlike most of the musicians who begin labels, is doing it without the assistance of one of the major record companies. Furtado will work with Last Gang Labels, a Canadian indie label group, to start Nelstar. The first band signed by the label is Toronto’s Fritz Helder & the Phantoms. Two members of the band are back-up dancers for Furtado. so she has a personal connection to the band. Its first album will be released July 7.
