Camila Cabello flows with Young Thug
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Camila Cabello, a founding member
of the girl group Fifth Harmony, has notable rapper Young Thug on her recent number, Havana, according to a press release by Green Hitz.
Born Karla Camila Cabello
Estrabao in Cojimar, Cuba, Cabello moved to Miami, Florida at the age of six.
Growing up in a Spanish-speaking environment (her mother is Cuban and her
father is Mexican), she fostered her love of music by listening to Celia Cruz
and Alejandro Fernández.
At the age of 15, she auditioned
for The
X Factor in Greensboro, North Carolina. Even though she was eliminated
(along with her four future groupmates), the judges brought her back.
Simon Cowell combined the girls
into a quintet and formed Fifth Harmony. Despite finishing in third place, they
went on to be the most successful contestants from that season.
Their debut EP, Better
Together, was released in October 2013, with acoustic reworkings,
Spanish versions (Juntos and Juntos Acoustic), and a remix album following a
month later. Their debut single, Miss
Movin' On, was the highest-charting U.S. X Factor single at the time, a
feat beaten only by each successive Fifth Harmony single.
Their debut LP, Reflection,
was released in early 2015, featuring the hits Sledgehammer (written by Meghan Trainor) and Worth It featuring rapper Kid Ink.
While backstage on Taylor Swift's
1989 world tour, Cabello wrote a duet with Canadian singer/songwriter Shawn
Mendes. I Know What You Did Last Summer
was released in November 2015 and immediately hit the Billboard Top 20. Fifth
Harmony's sophomore set, 7/27, was issued in 2016, supported
by a world tour and the hit single Work from
Home.
That same year, a duet with
rapper Machine Gun Kelly, Bad Things,
made its slow climb toward the top of the Billboard singles chart, garnering
Cabello her first Top Ten song as a solo artist. Soon after, on December 18,
Cabello announced her departure from Fifth Harmony.
~ Neil Z.
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