A feast for the eyes and ears

THEY say the third time's the charm, and Lourdes Hernandez, better known by her stage name Russian Red, was all charm as she stepped onto the stage at the mid-sized TAB last Friday for her one-night performance that was part of local music series The Gathering.

The soft-spoken 29-year-old Spanish indie pop princess, dressed in a sparkly sequin black attire, compared the intimate event to a reunion because she recognised a few faces in the crowd of 350 on what was her third visit to Singapore.

Widely known as the Catalan version of Feist because of the similar genre of quiet folk-pop both of them write and perform, the songs Hernandez picked for the 18-song set were mostly off her latest album, "Agent Cooper".