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Nelly Furtado shocked as she executed as aspect of NPR’s Little Desk Live efficiency collection in a video created on Friday, May possibly 24. Enjoying a vocation-spanning 20-minute set, Nelly, 45, introduced her classics to the studio with a major band. For the duration of the established, she sported a white tanktop, which seasoned the look on a moist t-shirt displaying a black bra beneath it.

Other than the white tank and black bra, the “Promiscuous” singer also sported a pair of dim denims, a choker, a for a longer time necklace with a star pendant on it, and some major hooped earrings. Throughout the efficiency, Nelly also shipped her tracks with a neat, laidback really feel, exhibiting off some of her groove with her band accompanying her. She also busted a quantity of dance moves as she rapped and sang her hits.

Nelly executed an 11-music setlist for her Little Desk debut. Her established supplied classics like “Promiscuous” and her remix of Missy Elliot’s “Get Ur Freak On”, as completely as much more current tunes like “Love Bites.” She closed out with her conventional “Maneater.” In the course of her efficiency, she also shouted out her typical collaborator Timbaland, and she stated that he have to have to have his possess Tiny Desk Concert.

As she launched her band, Nelly also revealed that her ex and longtime friend DJ Lil Jaz (whose genuine determine is Jasper Gahunia) is in the band, and she gave a shoutout to the daughter they share collectively. “Last but not the very least, we have like the final throwback these days here. From my OG authentic band, this is DJ Lil Jaz, [an] extraordinary pioneer in the scratching entire world,” she claimed. “This set has been resourceful directed by my daughter Nevis, which this is her father. And, thank you Nevis, terrific task!” In addition to DJ Lil Jaz, Nelly pointed out that lots of customers of her band have been persons that she’d worked with for a prolonged time just before.

The Small Desk visual look comes on the heels of her hottest single “Love Bites,” which dropped on Wednesday, Could 22. The tune features Tove Lo and SG Lewis.