Nelly Furtado to guest star in Portuguese soap opera

Nelly Furtado

Grammy-winning Canadian singer Nelly Furtado is to record a guest appearance on a prime-time Portuguese soap opera, a spokesman for the station which airs the show has said.

The episode of "Floribella" in which Furtado, the daughter of immigrant parents from Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores Islands, stars is set to air later this month on private television SIC, he said Tuesday.

The singer, in Portugal for a series of events to promote her third album "Loose", said on local television Monday that she would like to pursue acting one day.

Furtado, 27, prepared for a role in yet-to-be released independent drama "Nobody's Hero" about an Iraq war veteran, but filming conflicted with the promotion of her latest album.

She won a Grammy for best female pop vocal performance for her 2001 multiplatinum debut album "Whoa, Nelly".

"Floribella", a Portuguese remake of Argentine soap opera hit "Floricienta", draws over one million viewers each weeknight.

Based on the story of Cinderella and targeted mostly at children, it tells the tale of a poor girl who aspires to be a singer.