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(CBS) Nelly Furtado worked with a group of music industry heavyweights on her upcoming album “Loose.” In-demand hip-hop producer Timbaland, Shakira’s longtime collaborator Lester Mendez, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and Colombian megastar Juanes all worked on the album. But Furtado said it’s her 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Nevis, who deserves the most credit for the album.

“This album wouldn’t have existed if I wasn’t a mother,” she said. “That’s why it’s called “Loose.” (It) has this really youthful energy.

“During the recording process, I was living the life,” she continued. “I had my cake and ate it too, because I was with my daughter. She’s young, she’s not in school yet so she was just with me every day in the morning and we’d go to the park and go to the beach in Miami and have fun and play. And then at nighttime I got to record music with the greatest producers in the world.”

Furtado, 27, added that she’s living her own childhood all over again by seeing the world through her daughter’s eyes.

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