Mon Laferte performs at The Masonic in San Francisco on May 25, 2024. Mariana Garcia/STAFF.

SAN FRANCISCO — With a passionate style all her own, Chilean Mexican superstar Mon Laferte delivered a show full of genre-bending music and theatrical performances at the Masonic on Friday.

Dressed in an opulent baroque-style gown with a picture-framed stage backlit with a bright blue sky behind her, Laferte, fittingly, started with “Tenochtitlán,” the opening song also for her latest album, Autopoiética.

The production played with weather and the cosmos. As she began “Te juro que volveré,” the once-blue sky turned stormy. On the cumbia rebajada song, the artist sang about the painful struggle of not being able to keep a promise to her grandmother upon her return to Chile.

Mon Laferte performs at The Masonic in San Francisco on May 25, 2024.

With her magnetic voice and accompanied by four dancers in pink unitards, Laferte focused on songs Autopoiética, a self-transformation and rebirth project with songs like “NO+SAD,” “Metamorphosis” and “Autopoietic.” During the latter, she left the stage to her dancers, who brought some members of the crowd to join in on the performance.

Laferte then brought the show’s opening act, Ximena Sariñana, to the stage for a duet of “Flaco,” from 2017 album La trenza. Sariñana’s powerful melodic voice intertwined with Laferte’s. The duo also sang ballad “Un Error,” from Sariñana’s debut album, Mediocre.

The performance covered a solid chunk of Laferte’s songbook, including fan favorites like “Amárrame” and “Mi buen amor” from La trenza; “Amor completo” from 2015’s Mon Laferte Vol.1; “A Crying Diamond,” off 1940 Carmen, an album influenced by Laferte’s time spent living in Los Angeles; and a handful of songs off of 2021’s Seis.

On a solo rendition of “Tu falta de querer,” the penultimate song of the night, her raw vocals were accompanied only by an electric guitar. It was a unique, slower interpretation of the original hit, during which the loud chants of the crowd overpowered her singing. Mon Laferte took a step back to take it all in.

After a short break, and the classic chant in Spanish of “otra, otra, otra” from the crowd, Laferte and her dancers, now in all white and resembling Renaissance statues, returned to perform “Casta Diva,” from her latest album. In the eclectic performance, she mixed her impressive vocal range with synth effects for a dramatic effect.

Ximena Sariñana performs at The Masonic in San Francisco on May 25, 2024.

Guadalajara singer-songwriter and actress Ximena Sariñana opened the show with “Mediocre,” from the debut album of the same name, which earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album in 2008.

Sariñana continued by playing unreleased song “ALV,” a bouncy, upbeat pop song with the singer playing the keyboard. She introduced her hit “Cuento” from the soundtrack of the film “Amar te duele.”

As her set came to an end, Sariñana played “Vidas paralelas,” also from Mediocre. The catchy chorus had many on the floor singing along.

Both Mon Laferte and Ximena Sariñana will perform at the BottleRock-Presents-produced Festival La Onda next weekend.

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