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Camila Cabello Her debut studio album, Camila (2018), reached number one on the US Billboard 200. The Latin music–influenced pop album was critically well-received and earned a Platinum certification from the RIAA. Its lead single "Havana" topped charts in several countries, including the US and UK, and the follow-up single "Never Be the Same" reached the top ten in multiple countries. Cabello's 2019 duet with Mendes, "Señorita", became her second single to top the Billboard Hot 100. Her second studio album, Romance (2019), peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, with the single "My Oh My" peaking at number 12 on the Hot 100,[3] and inside the top ten in multiple countries.

In 2021, Cabello made her acting debut, starring as the title character from the film Cinderella. Cabello released her third studio album Familia in April 2022, with the lead single "Don't Go Yet" released in July 2021.[4] The second single from Familia, "Bam Bam", reached the top five of the Billboard Global 200 Chart, Cabello's highest entry and peaked inside the top ten in several countries, it also peaked at 21 on the Billboard Hot 100. Familia peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200,[3] number 9 in the UK and number 6 in Canada.

Cabello has amassed billions of streams on music platforms, and "Havana" became the best-selling digital single of 2018, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Cabello's many awards include two Latin Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and one Billboard Music Award. In 2021, "Havana" was certified Diamond by the RIAA,[5] making Cabello the first Hispanic woman to receive this certification.
Cabello was born in the Habana del Este district of Cojímar in Havana, Cuba,[7][8] to Alejandro Cabello and Sinuhe Estrabao. Her father was born in Mexico City and is a Mexican who moved to Cuba. She has a younger sister named Sofia.[9] For most of her early life, Cabello and her family moved back and forth between Havana and Mexico City.

When Cabello was six years old, she relocated to Miami, Florida with her mother by crossing the border from Mexico to the United States and taking a 36 hour long Greyhound bus ride to Miami after waiting only a day at the border before being granted permission to enter the US. Cabello was told by her mother that she was going to Disneyworld as an incentive to go to the US; they moved into Cabello’s grandfather’s colleague’s house who later became her godmother. Cabello’s mother took night courses to learn English. Cabello’s father was unable to obtain a visa at the time and joined the family approximately 18 months later where he would first work washing cars in front of Dolphin Mall. Cabello’s mother who was an architect with a degree in Cuba worked at Marshalls stacking shoes in the US before two other Cuban women approached her at work and told her that they had a brother who worked in architecture and needed someone who worked in AutoCAD; Cabello’s mother.

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