Mon Laferte

Mon Laferte, a Chilean singer-songwriter, producer and visual artist, performs at the Barbican Hall in London with a cabaret-style live show built around the album Femme Fatale.

Mon Laferte is a Chilean musician born in Viña del Mar in 1983, whose work spans bolero, Latin pop and independent pop. Her career began in 2003 with the album La chica de rojo. Her output across nine studio albums moves between bolero and electronic music, and she also works as a painter, photographer and performance artist. Her performances have included Coachella, the Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Garden, and her artistic process was the subject of the Netflix documentary Te Amo, Mon Laferte.

This London date follows an earlier sold-out appearance at Electric Brixton. The show presents the album Femme Fatale in a cabaret style, an approach shaped by the singer's time in musical theatre, including a role as Sally Bowles in Cabaret in Mexico City. The album looks at women historically labelled dangerous for being independent, sexually liberated and unwilling to conform.

The Barbican Hall is the concert hall of the Barbican Centre on Silk Street in the City of London. It is home to the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and also hosts classical and jazz concerts, so this pop and Latin evening is a departure from its usual programme.