Mon Laferte in her role as Sally Bowles. Credit to Criteria Entertainment.
Los Angeles, California (July 22, 2025)- Mon Laferte is captivating Mexico City with a stunning and deeply personal transformation in her debut as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Performing to sold-out crowds at the legendary Teatro de los Insurgentes, she has earned standing ovations and glowing reviews for a portrayal that seamlessly blends concert, theater, and raw emotional storytelling.
Playing every Friday through Sunday until September 7, the production reimagines the iconic theater as the alluring, shadow-filled Kit Kat Club. Far from a simple tribute to the role made famous by Liza Minnelli, Laferte’s Sally Bowles is a fearless reinvention—an embodiment of vulnerability, passion, and intensity that echoes the themes already woven through her music.
This powerful emotional connection feels less like a detour in her career and more like a natural evolution. For years, Laferte has delved into identity, heartbreak, and transformation through her songs, and now she channels those same forces into a theatrical experience that is both radiant and heartbreaking, playful and tragic. Her performance balances precise control with raw abandon, revealing an artist fully in command of her creative power.
This dramatic reinvention grew from seeds planted earlier this year when Laferte debuted a new visual and performative language at Vive Latino 2025. The show, a fusion of vaudeville and cabaret with period costumes and choreographed narrative, blurred the lines between concert and theater. Since then, this concept has traveled widely across Latin America and the United States, including stops in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Bogotá, Monterrey, Ciudad del Carmen, Hermosillo, Napa Valley’s BottleRock Festival, and most recently, the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
While this theatrical world continues to expand on stage, Laferte is also exploring it in the studio. Soon she will release “Esto Es Amor,” a new single that channels the emotional complexity of Cabaret into a fresh sonic language. The song, a collaboration with Argentine singer-songwriter Conociendo Rusia, is the second preview from her eagerly awaited album Femme Fatale.
Produced by Manú Jalil alongside Laferte herself, “Esto Es Amor” draws on the nostalgic, romantic pop of the 1980s, blending warmth and restrained intensity. Where her Sally Bowles reveals love’s drama under bright lights, this song captures a quieter, more intimate love—one found in glances, silences, and unspoken desires.
With Femme Fatale, Mon Laferte continues to build a richly layered artistic world where theatricality, intimacy, and cinematic storytelling converge. “Esto Es Amor” offers a perfect glimpse of that vision—a ballad that smolders quietly yet powerfully beneath the surface.
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