Mon Laferte

Mon Laferte was born in Viña del Mar, Chile, in 1983, but her musical story began long before big stages. At nine years old, she won first prize in a school contest, the Orlando Peña Carvajal, and was given a guitar. That instrument changed everything: she started composing her own songs and that's where everything that came after began. At thirteen, she got a scholarship to study at the conservatory in Viña del Mar, although she preferred to learn on her own. In the meantime, she was already playing in bars in Viña and Valparaíso.Her real name is Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte, and that was how she was known throughout Chile when she appeared in Rojo fama contrafama, the talent show of Chilean National Television in 2003.

She did so well that she stayed as part of the regular cast, the Clan Rojo, and recorded her first solo album: La chica de Rojo, released by Warner Music Group. Within a month of its release, she already had a gold and platinum album.Four years later, she felt she needed to leave almost everything behind. On June 22, 2007, she said goodbye at the Teatro Caupolicán in Santiago, and a month later she crossed the border into Mexico. She settled in Mexico City, although she traveled almost four hundred kilometers every weekend to Veracruz to sing covers of other artists and make a living.Over time, she also went through heavy metal: between 2012 and 2014, she sang in the bands Mystica Girls and Abaddon.