Nelly Furtado to sing Euro 2004 anthem 'Forca'

LISBON, Portugal (Euro 2004 website/Nelly Furtado Fans Website) - A song by grammy-winning Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado is to be the official anthem of the three-week Euro 2004 football tournament, organisers said.
"I am very excited, I wrote the song 'Forca' especially for the tournament. It is about the love of the game," the singer said in a videotaped message broadcast on Monday at a news conference in Portugal, the country of origin of her parents and the venue for the championship's final.

Furtado will perform the upbeat song, whose title means "Strength" in Portuguese, before the start of the final match of the 16-nation tournament on July 4 in Oporto, Portugal's second-largest city.
The song, its chorus performed in Portuguese, is the sixth track on the 25-year-old singer's second album "Folklore" which has sold over a million copies around the world since its release in November.

Furtado grew up in the Canadian west coast province of British Columbia, the daughter of immigrant parents from Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands. She won a Grammy in 2002 for her catchy first single "I'm Like a Bird," off her hugely successful debut album "Whoa, Nelly," which has sold sold over six-million discs around the world since its release in 2000.