Nelly Furtado has the right idea in reinventing herself.

Baseball was popular in the summer, but hockey was big most of the time. With five brothers, you never escaped it. We had an indoor rink in our town, and all the boys would play on it right through high school.

Suddenly, I was in a category with Barbara Striesand, Olivia Newton John, Donna Summer, Carley Simon - it was kind of neat for me.

I'm originally from Nova Scotia.

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.