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Abuse, Success & Strength in ‘Mon Laferte, Te Amo’ Documentary: Why ‘Talking About My Mother Was Healing’ for the Singer-Songwriter

Abuses, success and strength in the documentary 'Mon Laferte, Te Amo', released on Aug. 1 on Netflix. Billboard Español spoke with the Chilean singer.

In the back and forth between stages, dressing rooms and her home, Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte (her real name) recalls a complex childhood, marked by the abandonment of her father and economic struggles, as well as the differences that distanced her from her mother at a young age. The artist compares her experience to that of Beyoncé, whose documentary Homecoming(2019) records the days leading up to her highly anticipated performance at the 2018 Coachella Festival and the emotional path the American superstar and also mother went through, from creative concept to the concert’s moment. Other passages in Mon Laferte, Te Amo talk about her life after leaving school, her beginnings as a singer in local bars in Chile and her relationship with a man 21 years older than her who soon became her first manager, and she the victim of emotional and economic abuse.

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