After courting Europe, French singer-songwriter Héloïse Letissier, better known by her stage name Christine and the Queen, has returned to where it all started - London - ready to take the world by storm.

In 2010, the Nantes-born performer arrived in the capital searching for her identity and, after knocking on the door of Soho haunt Madame Jojo's, discovered an underworld that would inspire her music and an imaginary band named after three London drag queens she met there. Since then, her blend of hip-hop, chamber and electropop music has been celebrated in her native France. In February 2016, Christine and the Queens released an English version of her 2014 debut album Chaleur Humaine and shortly after she played her first headline gig at KOKO, London, with The Guardian describing her as 'a brilliant, fevered musical force of nature’. Now the 27 year old is set to embark on her US tour where international success looks set t