A pop singer is pausing her performing career to focus on other pursuits, 25 years after her debut album.

Nelly Furtado took to Instagram on Friday, explaining she is putting performing on hold “for the foreseeable future [to] pursue some other creative and personal endeavours that I feel would better suit this next phase of my life.”

Her post included two photos, the first showing her at 20 years old before performing at her “first show as a professional artist at Lilith Fair.”

The second photo was a video of her performing in Berlin this summer, where she was “finally understanding what receiving flowers means” as the crowd shouted her name.

Reflecting on her first performance, the “Maneater” singer remembered buying the pink dress from a store called Original on Queen West in Toront

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