Monsieur Periné is a Bogotá-based musical ensemble from Colombia with an Afro-Colombian sound that mixes Latin and European flavors. Lead singer Catalina García sings in a mixture of Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese.

Over the last decade, the multilingual pop-jazz-swing band has been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards, taking home 2 of those for Best New Artist (Caja de Música, 2015) and Best Alternative Music Album (Bolero Apocalíptico, 2023), not to mention numerous Latin Grammy nominations.

Their self-described style, "Suín a la Colombiana," is a rich blend of swing/jazz meets cumbia, bolero, danzón, bossa nova, salsa and tango that the Montreux Jazz Festival characterizes as a joyful, rockin' cosmopolitan sound.

Catalina García is a Colombian singer and actress, known as the vocalist and writer for the band Monsieur Periné. She was born in Cali, Colombia and attended the Paul Valery French high school in the same city. She moved to Bogotá and began studying Anthropology at Javeriana University.

While living in Bogotá, García met musicians Santiago Prieto, Nicolás Junca and Camilo Parra, with whom she began to play various genres of Latin American music and jazz, performing at various venues in the city. They took the name Monsieur Periné from the French word "perineum" (pelvic floor). In 2012 they released their first album called Hecho a Mano. The album turned out to be a commercial success, leading the group to perform throughout Latin America and at jazz festivals in Europe. Their second album, Caja de Música, was released in 2015 and produced by musician Eduardo Cabra (Calle 13). The album earned the group a Latin Grammy that same year in the "Best New Artist" category.

During the pandemic, in 2021, they achieved unprecedented global recognition when “Nuestra Canción” went viral, reaching #1 on both the TikTok U.S. Chart and the Spotify Global Viral Chart, accumulating more than 2 billion views and over 2 million uses in videos worldwide.

Monsieur Periné has also collaborated with modern Cuban soul-funk band Cimafunk -- who have been living part-time in New Orleans since 2023 -- on the percussive track "Catalina" (featuring Fux Beat), which was nominated for Record of the Year at the 2025 Latin Grammy Awards. The song is featured on Cimafunk's 2024 album, Pa' Tu Cuerpa., which was also nominated for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album of the Year at the US Grammy Awards the same year.

Following this bevy of international awards, Monsieur Periné has found themselves on grand stages such as Carnegie Hall, Montreux Jazz Festival - Miami, Montréal International Jazz Festival - Canada, Tecate P'al Norte Festival - Mexico, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, Fusion Festival Berlin, and many more over the last two years.

Now, almost two decades after its founding, Monsieur Periné begins a new chapter with its upcoming album, Instrucciones Para Ser Feliz ("Instructions to Be Happy," expected on April 30, 2026), a project that reaffirms its ability to evolve and reinvent itself within contemporary Latin music and from which it has already released three singles: the controversial electronic guaracha “Aguaráchate”, the song “Grande” together with the collective Piso 21, and the hit “El Avión” in which, together with the legendary Carlos Vives, they raise their voices about the problems within migration.

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TONIGHT, experience Monsieur Periné inside the intimate historic New Orleans venue Tipitina's for their Crescent City stop on their Instrucciones Para Ser Feliz Tour.

New Orleans' own rising cumbia outfit Los Güiros warms up the room with an opening set at 8pm.

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7pm Doors

8pm Show

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