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Ekin Karasin

Madonna’s daughter performs tiny London show for price of a pint

Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon performed an intimate gig at an industrial estate in south London with tickets going for just £7.50.

The 28-year-old is the eldest child of pop icon Madonna, who is worth a reported £630 million, and has been carving out her own music career under the name Lolahol.

She played at Ormside Projects in South Bermondsey on Wednesday night, with her brother Rocco Ritchie in the audience supporting her.

Leon arrived 20 minutes late for her set, taking the stage at 9.45pm, according to The Sun.

The singer sampled the ‘90s garage song Sincere by MJ Cole and even covered Judy Garland’s The Boy Next Door, telling the audience with a laugh: “I feel like there are enough gays in the audience to know who that is.”

Leon also told the crowd she secretly wrote one of her mother’s songs, which is “why it sounds like a stupid person wrote it”.

The musician said she wrote It’s So Cool, which Madonna released as a bonus track on her 2009 Celebration greatest hits compilation.

Before singing it, Leon claimed: “I wrote this song when I was like eight. That’s why it sounds like a stupid person wrote it.”

She will perform in Ibiza on Friday, August 29 and at Lava Festival in Berlin on Sunday, August 31.

The singer - who once dated Timothee Chalamet - has been working on her music for several years and has performed at different festivals and events, including Primavera Sound, Madrid Brava, and Parklife in Manchester.

Leon, whose father is Carlos Leon, previously revealed the advice she received from her global superstar mother as she began to enter the entertainment industry.

Lourdes with Madonna in 2022 (Getty Images for NYFW: The Shows)

"She’s very much like, 'Proceed with caution and think about what you want to be known for,’” Leon told Interview magazine in 2021.

“I’ve thought a lot about that recently, because as a 'model,' you’re basically relying on your looks. It can feel very overwhelming, and can potentially cause a lot of insecurity. Obviously, you’re not going to look the same your whole life.

“My mom is very insistent on making me think about what I want to be known for beyond my looks. That’s not what I want people to remember me by. It’s not real.”

She also praised Madonna’s work ethic, saying: "She’s probably the hardest worker I’ve ever seen. I didn’t inherit that, unfortunately.”

Madonna previously confessed it must be a “challenge" for her children to have “a mother like me”.

“It has been the most difficult, the hardest battle," the Material Girl singer told Vanity Fair.

“Growing up with a mother like me is a challenge... Today, I am still struggling to understand how to be a mother and do my job.

“Whoever you are, having children and raising them is a work of art and no one gives you a manual. You have to learn from mistakes.”

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