After three albums in English, Grammy Award Winning Canadian-Portuguese Superstar Nelly Furtado has achieved one of her dreams by producing an album entirely in Spanish. Not that she hadn’t sung in Spanish before; of note are past collaborations with artists such as Juanes, Wisin & Yandel and Calle 13. I personally loved her Spanish song "No Hay Igual," from her album Loose.

The time seems ripe for an entire album in Spanish; Nelly has been in the music business for a little over 10 years now, and has produced three acclaimed English albums: Whoa, Nelly, Folklore, and Loose. The last album counted for 10 million of the 18 million albums she has sold up to now.

Released on September 15, 2009, the new album features the same mix of sounds, genres and vocal styles Nelly is known to experiment with. The album also includes collaborations with Alejandro Fernández, Josh Groban, Juan Luis Guerra, Julieta Venegas, La Mala Rodríguez, Buika, and Alex Cuba. It was extremely well received, debuting at number 1 on the Billboard Latin Albums chart.

“I got so much joy out of recording this Spanish album; debuting at #1 is a dream come true," says Nelly Furtado, who doesn’t consider Mi Plan a Latin album. Rather, she describes it as “music in Spanish for the world”. The album is described as a collection of songs full of rhythm, feeling and sensations aimed to hit the heart and soul of her audience, despite language.

The first single released from the album, "Manos al aire" (Hands in the air), is already at the top of many charts. Actually, it started at the top of many charts. Released at the end of August, it was the number one single in Central America for its first two weeks, number two in Germany, number three in the US and in Puerto Rico, was in the top five in Italy and Switzerland and was in the top 10 in Latin America and Spain. And this, despite the fact that the song is in Spanish and that, in many of the countries mentioned above, Spanish isn’t the native language.

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