Nelly Furtado Comes Clean on Secret Marriage

Songbird confirms she quietly tied the knot with her longtime sound engineer boyfriend over the summer

By Gina Serpe Oct 17, 2008 5:05 PMTags
Nelly Furtado, Demacio CastellonTannis Toohey/Toronto Star

Whoa, Nelly. Now that's some good secret-keeping.

Canuck songbird Nelly Furtado has revealed in an interview set to air on Entertainment Tonight Canada Friday that she quietly—very quietly—tied the knot with fiancé Demacio "Demo" Castellon over the summer.

"We got married July 19," she says. "I love it.

"It's a nice phase of my life…I just feel kind of free and relaxed and more in tune with trying not to be so stressed out. I'm trying to enjoy things a little more."

The 29-year-old announced her engagement to Castellon last summer. The duo met when he engineered her 2006 hit album Loose.

Speculation on the state of Furtado's marital status kicked off in recent weeks, when the apparently no longer "Promiscuous" warbler was spotted wearing some serious bling while making the scene in Miami.

The singer has one child, 4-year-old daughter Nevis, from a previous relationship.