Nelly Furtado has enlisted the assistance of a Drag Race icon for her new album. (Getty/YouTube/RuPaul’s Drag Race)
Quickly-to-be Mighty Hoopla headliner Nelly Furtado has introduced that her new studio album will function a Drag Race famous person.
The Grammy Award-winning singer is sticking to her Canadian roots and has teased the upcoming collaboration with Canada’s Drag Race star Tynomi Banks.
Chatting with Homosexual Occasions, “I’m Like a Chook” hitmaker Furtado stated: “Sure, there’s a Tynomi function. She’s on my album. You’re going to have to attend to listen to it. She’s very gifted.
“You’ve solely simply seen the start of Tynomi Banks. She’s simply getting began.”
The collaboration is at the moment untitled, as is the album, which is due for launch later this 12 months.
Tynomi, who completed ninth within the inaugural season of the Drag Race spin-off, responded to the information on her Instagram web page over the weekend, writing: “This simply blew my thoughts. Thanks a lot for our friendship. Your ambition, your ardour has impressed me a lot over time.
“I can not start to explain how giving and real you might be. It’s an honour to work with you and to be in your inventive presence. I’ve a lot love. Thanks once more.”
Banks additionally shared a sequence of photographs of the pair hugging and hanging out collectively, and a brief clip of them within the studio, with Furtado singing her 2006 hit “Say it Proper” within the background.
Furtado has made her love of drag performers crystal clear. Earlier this 12 months, she was a visitor decide for the ultimate episode of Canada’s Drag Race season 4.
She stated showing on the present was “a lot enjoyable”, including that she and host Brooke Lynn Hytes frolicked collectively final summer season.
Though Furtado’s album continues to be within the works, the lead single – a banger that includes Tove Lo and SG Lewis, entitled “Love Bites” – dropped final week.
Nelly Furtado will headline Mighty Hoopla in London on Saturday (1 June).