Mon Laferte
Mon Laferte was born in Viña del Mar, Valparaíso Region, Chile on May 2nd, 1983 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 40, Mon Laferte biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Career
In 2003, Laferte, then known as Monserrat Bustamante, joined the Chilean reality competition series Rojo. La Chica de Rojo, her first studio album, was released in the same year. The album had a huge success in Chile, receiving Gold and Platinum awards. She became a member of the Clan Rojo and appeared on the television show for four seasons.
Laferte started a new chapter in her musical career in 2007 by transferring from Chile to Mexico City, where she began performing in nightclubs and recording cover songs. In 2009, she released "Lo mismo que yo," which was supposed to be the lead single from a new album. Laferte was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in the same year, effectively ending her career, effectively ending it.
She abandoned her original stage name and introduced the world to Mon Laferte, indicating that the name was a new beginning for her: she was fighting cancer around the time.
Laferte decided to scrap the album she was recording in 2009 and returned two years later with her second studio album, titled Desechable. She was invited to judge the second season of Factor X's Chilean version, alongside Karen Doggenweiler, Tito Beltrán, and José Luis Rodrán.
It's also at this time that she appeared at the beginning of 2012 as a vocalist of Mystica Girls, with whom she also recorded Gates of Hell in February 2014.
Tornasol, she's third album, came out in 2013. With her single "Tu falta de querer" from Mon Laferte's album "Mon Laferte, Vol. 1, she attracted media attention in 2015. She received two nominations on the Latin Grammy Awards of 2016 for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album in 2016, as well as a MTV Millennial Award for the "Latin Video of the Year" in 2016.
In 2017, Laferte unveiled her fifth album, La Trenza, her most well-received album to date. "Amárrame," a Colombian rock star, received the Best Alternative Song award at the 18th Latin GRAMMYs, in which she was also nominated for Best Alternative Music Album, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, and Record of the Year. In addition, she has been named in the MTV Europe Music Awards' category "Best North Latin Artist."
"Antes de Ti" was nominated as "Song of the Year" in February 2018. Mon Laferte's debut was also included in the video. La Divaza, a Venezuelan YouTube celebrity, co-hosted the 2018 MTV Millennial Awards in Mexico City in June 2018.
Mon worked on her sixth studio album, Norma, which was shot in a single session in Capitol Studios of Los Angeles, but all the instruments were playing simultaneously to give the scene the appearance of live recording. In this collection, 13 musicians were included. This album was produced by Omar Rodrpez-López, the recording engineer, Bruce Botnick. The album was released on November 9, 2018.
In a version of the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" by the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano, a collaboration was announced on October 26th for the new Christmas album of American singer Gwen Stefani. Mon Laferte was nominated by HTV in the "Best Southern Artist" category of the Heat Latin Music Awards, which took place at the end of 2018.
In January 2019, she was announced to compete in the American Music Festival Coachella. Mon Laferte received her first nomination in the Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year category, Female, at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in February 2019. Also, the Album Norma has set a Gold record in Mexico for 30,000 copies sold.
The singer's name, "La Gira de Norma," appeared on her US tour in May 2019. Following a European tour that same Summer, the first tour date has been scheduled in Seattle's Neptune Theatre. Mon Laferte made news when she announced her breasts at the Latin Grammys on her bare chest, displaying the word "En Chile Torturan Violan y Matan" (English translation: mon Laferte: Mother In Chile, torture, rape, and murder).
Patricia Janiot of Univision interviewed Laferte on November 19, 2019. Mon Laferte defended the looting and fire of many supermarkets and other buildings by stating that "they were only material products." When asked if she opposed violence, she replied, "I do not approve of any form of abuse." Now, if you ask me personally, if I would go out of my way to rob a supermarket that has robbed me my entire life in order to reclaim the basic rights I feel I deserve." She accused the police and the armed forces of torching the hundreds of subway stations that had been sparked by rioters on October 18, 2019.
Laferte was ordered to testify by Chilean prosecutors on Friday about the facts that she may or may not have to support her assertion that Chilean police and armed forces were actively involved in the arson of subway stations. Chilean police said they would press felony charges against her if they wanted to press criminal charges against her after she announced her name. The charges were later dropped after being outlawed.
Laferte contributed a cover of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist in 2021.
During a press conference in June 2022, she declared her Mexican citizenship. "Llevo 15 aos en México, tengo un hijo mexicano, mi pareja es mexico" - Mi pareja es mexico" explains the Mexicano. Pero es hermoso, es la cereza del pastel!" The now Chilean singer said she was delighted to have her new nationality after having called Mexico her home for the past 15 years. Mon Laferte was born and raised her career during this time.
She opened her debut as a visual artist in Gestures, a solo exhibition at the Museum of the City of Mexico, containing 76 works of art on March 11, 2020. Laferte wrote for ten years as a self-taught artist with some lessons from her father, a painter himself.