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Christine and the Queens review – a brilliant, fevered musical force of nature | Musique Non Stop

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Christine and the Queens review – a brilliant, fevered musical force of nature

Koko, London
The French superstar’s hip-hop chamber pop is energising and she goes all out to impress with a potent mix of sincerity and absolute authenticity – this is pop at its transformative best

In 2010, Heloise Letissier arrived in London searching for an identity and seeking adventure. Six years later, she’s back with a new guise, playing to a sold-out crowd for her first headline gig in the capital. “This is where it all started for me,” she says, her mile-wide smile one of pride and disbelief. “A freaky idea, to let a stage character live my thoughts.”

That alter-ego is Christine – “I believe I am a little boy dreaming of being Beyoncé,” Letissier explains – and the Queens, her imaginary band named after three London drag queens encountered on that fateful trip. It’s a construct that’s made the 27-year-old ex-theatre student a superstar back home in France, with two Victories de la Musique awards, the French equivalent of the Grammies, to her name and the dubious honour of having been spanked by Madonna at the latter’s recent Paris show. In February, Christine and the Queens released an English version of their 2014 debut album Chaleur Humaine and Letissier describes this show not as a homecoming, but a “first date”. And, like an ardent suitor, she goes all out to impress.

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