Introduction
She first showed up on TV in 2012 as part of the girl group Fifth Harmony on The X Factor season two, where they made it to the top three. Their first song together, "Miss Movin' On," came out in 2013 and went gold. She left the group in 2016 and put out her own album, Camila, in 2018—it shot straight to #1 on the Billboard 200. Her 2017 song "Havana" was a huge hit and got certified 7x Platinum.
General Details
She started getting noticed by sharing song covers on her YouTube channel. She’d never sung in front of people before her X Factor tryout. While still with Fifth Harmony, she dropped solo songs like "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Bad Things," and both made it to the top 20 on Billboard’s Hot 100. In 2019, she snagged two Latin Grammys—one for Record of the Year and one for Best Pop Song—for teaming up with Alejandro Sanz on "Mi Persona Favorita."
Family Life
She was born in Havana and bounced between there and Mexico for her first five years before landing in the U.S. Her full name’s Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao. Her mom and dad are Sinuhe and Alejandro Cabello, and she’s got a little sister named Sofia. She started dating Shawn Mendes in 2019, but they split in November 2021. Before that, she was with Matthew Hussey for about a year. In 2022, she dated Austin Kevitch, the Lox Club CEO, but they’re done now. She got back with Shawn Mendes in 2023, but they broke up again after a few months.
Linked To
In 2017, she worked with J Balvin and Pitbull on "Hey Ma," a song that was part of the The Fate of the Furious movie soundtrack.