This is surprising because a lot of people hate on her over there for not speaking Portuguese.
And making a spanish album before a Portuguese album lol. It's hard to understand her on that one portuguese track she did for Euro 2004 too. The languages are so extremely similar that it really didn't sit well with people that she opted for spanish lool.
Source: am portuguese/canadian and lived in portugal for a bit.
This is surprising because a lot of people hate on her over there for not speaking Portuguese.
It's not surprising because they were recognizing all the Portuguese people that are successful in Canada (I think) or just in general outside of Portugal and well Nelly is a proud Portuguese singer.