50 Fun Facts About Camila Cabello

Cabello's group Fifth Harmony named the album 7/27 after what?

Formation date: on July 27, 2012, The X Factor put five rejected soloists, Cabello among them, together as a group.

Cabello sang on Almost Like Praying, a 2017 charity single for hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, written by whom?

Lin-Manuel Miranda built the lyric from the names of all 78 towns in Puerto Rico so that, he said, no one's home town would feel forgotten after Hurricane Maria.

What is Cabello's first given name?

Karla is her first name, and she gave it to the shy, telenovela-loving version of herself she plays in the Havana video.

Cabello's father was born in which country?

Mexico: her father is from Mexico City, and as a small child she lived back and forth between there and Havana.

At the 2020 Grammys, Cabello sang a ballad to which relative, seated in the front row?

Her father wept in the front row as she sang First Man, and she came down from the stage to finish the ballad holding his hand.

About how long was the Greyhound bus ride that took young Cabello from the border to Miami?

36 hours on a Greyhound followed just one day's wait at the border, where other families spent weeks, and she says the ride holds her most vivid memories of the move.

What did Cabello's mother promise they were going to see, to coax her to the US?

Walt Disney World was the promise, and when officials finally waved them through after a day's wait she remembers shouting that they were all going to Disney.

Cabello's mother learned AutoCAD in a week to return to which profession?

Architect: her Cuban degrees did not count in the US, so she stacked shoes at Marshalls until two women asked if she knew AutoCAD; she said 'of course', having only ever drawn with pencil and paper.

Cabello voiced a long-lost sister named Viva in which 2023 animated film?

Trolls Band Together cast her as Viva, the sister Queen Poppy never knew she had, who has spent years hiding out in an abandoned mini-golf course.

Which song did Cabello sing at her X Factor audition in Greensboro?

Respect, Aretha Franklin's signature hit, got her through, but viewers never saw it because the show had not cleared the rights to the song.

Which singer went from The X Factor into Fifth Harmony alongside Cabello?

Normani stayed on when Cabello left, and Fifth Harmony carried on as a four-piece until the group announced an open-ended hiatus in 2018.

Who owned Syco Music, the label Fifth Harmony signed with?

Simon Cowell signed the group to Syco in a joint deal with L.A. Reid's Epic Records even though they had not won his show.

What was Fifth Harmony's 2013 EP called?

Better Together reached number six on the Billboard 200 less than a year after the group had finished only third on The X Factor.

Which Fifth Harmony single came from the album 7/27?

Work from Home was first called simply Work, and the group added two words so it would not be confused with Rihanna's single of that name.

With which Canadian singer did Cabello record I Know What You Did Last Summer?

Shawn Mendes says the two wrote its chorus in about half an hour while jamming on a guitar backstage, four years before their duet Señorita.

Bad Things, a number-four US hit, paired Cabello with which rapper?

Machine Gun Kelly built it around a reworked chorus from Fastball's 1999 hit Out of My Head, sung by Cabello, and it gave both of them a first top-ten single as solo acts.

Fifth Harmony's December 2016 statement said the group learned Cabello was leaving how?

Through her representatives, the group said; Cabello answered the next day that she was shocked by the statement and that its account of her exit was 'simply not true'.

Which Norwegian DJ's song Love Incredible featured Cabello in 2017?

Cashmere Cat's track was recorded months before she left Fifth Harmony, and after it leaked online it became the first new song she released following her exit.

Hey Ma, with Pitbull and J Balvin, appeared on the soundtrack of which film?

The Fate of the Furious got the Spanish version first, with a video of the trio dancing through Miami streets dressed up to evoke Cuba, intercut with clips from the film.

What was the original announced title of Cabello's debut album?

The Hurting. The Healing. The Loving. went when she scrapped most of its songs; she renamed the album Camila because, she said, the story had ended with her finding her way back to herself.

What was Cabello's debut solo single?

Crying in the Club, written with Sia and Benny Blanco, stalled at number 47 and was left off the album it had been meant to lead.

Which star's 2017 arena tour had Cabello as an opening act?

Bruno Mars had her open North American dates of his 24K Magic World Tour that July and August, and midway through the run she released Havana, her first number-one single.

Which hitmaker co-wrote Cabello's Havana and can be heard singing backing vocals on it?

Pharrell Williams sings in the background and shares the writing credit, though the other songs the two made together were cut from her album.

In June 2018, Cabello's Havana became the most-streamed song by a solo female artist on which service?

Spotify's record capped the rise of a song whose surprise success led her to delay her debut album and scrap much of what she had recorded for it.

Which actor played Cabello's ghostly ex in the video for Consequences, the last single from Camila?

Dylan Sprouse, a friend of Cabello's, appears as a see-through former lover playing a grand piano on a path covered in autumn leaves.

Which British pop star co-wrote OMG, the Quavo collaboration Cabello released on the same day as Havana?

Charli XCX helped write OMG, which was dropped from the finished album, and the following year the two were sharing a bill as the opening acts on a stadium tour.

Which prize did Cabello's Havana win at the 2018 MTV VMAs?

Video of the Year went to Havana, and Madonna handed it over after her own tribute speech to Aretha Franklin, who had died days earlier.

Which single gave its name to Cabello's first headlining solo trek in 2018?

She opened for Taylor Swift between its European dates.

In 2018 Cabello broke off her own first headline tour to open stadium shows for which star?

Taylor Swift had been a poster on Cabello's bedroom wall when she was 14, and Cabello called the opening slot a dream come true as a fan.

Which singer opened shows on Cabello's first headline tour and then had her on a remix of his song Beautiful?

Bazzi's Beautiful had only bubbled under the Hot 100 until the version with Cabello, his tourmate, carried it to number 26.

Which rapper, her guest on Havana, joined Cabello, Ricky Martin and J Balvin to open the 2019 Grammys?

Young Thug reprised his verse in an opening medley that moved from Havana into Ricky Martin's and J Balvin's own hits and brought on jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval.

Which hit kept Señorita off number one on its July 2019 debut?

Old Town Road was well into a 19-week run at number one, then the longest ever, so Señorita waited until late August, when it took the top spot from Bad Guy, the song that had ended that run.

Cabello won her two Latin Grammys for Mi Persona Favorita, a 2019 duet with which Spanish singer?

Alejandro Sanz, a singer she had long admired, phoned to ask her to record with him for his album El Disco, and their duet was named Record of the Year.

South of the Border teamed Cabello with which rapper alongside a British singer?

Cardi B tops the track off with its bridge, after Cabello has slipped from English into Spanish, and Cabello called Cardi's part 'literally my favorite thing'.

Which two singles launched the album Romance on the same day in September 2019?

Liar and Shameless came out together as the album's 'first installment', and Liar borrows from Lionel Richie's All Night Long and Ace of Base's All That She Wants.

Which rapper featured on My Oh My, which topped the US Mainstream Top 40?

DaBaby plays an up-and-coming director in the video, set in 1920s Hollywood, who rescues Cabello's actress from damsel roles and casts her as the lead in his own action film.

Why did the tour planned for Cabello's album Romance never take place?

The COVID-19 pandemic shut it down before it began, and she sang instead from her Miami home in iHeart's Living Room Concert for America, a televised benefit.

Cabello played which fairy-tale title role in a 2021 film?

Cinderella here dreams of opening her own dress shop, not of marrying a prince, and her fairy godparent, the 'Fab G', is played by Billy Porter.

Kay Cannon, director of Cabello's 2021 film, wrote which film series?

Pitch Perfect made Cannon's name as a writer, and she built Cabello's film the same way, as a jukebox musical of pop and rock hits with a few new songs.

Which song was the lead single from Cabello's album Familia?

Don't Go Yet was inspired, she said, by the family parties of her childhood, where after dinner a cheap disco ball turned the living room into a dance floor.

Cabello's 2022 hit Bam Bam featured which British singer?

Ed Sheeran and Cabello first sang it together at Concert for Ukraine, a televised benefit in Birmingham that had raised more than 11 million pounds by the time it ended.

Cabello opened for which band on the Latin American leg of their 2022 tour?

Coldplay's Fix You was the song she covered at a televised benefit that March, and six months later she was opening the band's stadium shows in Colombia, Peru and Chile.

Cabello headlined the opening ceremony of which football showpiece in May 2022?

The UEFA Champions League Final crowd of Liverpool and Real Madrid fans sang club anthems over her set, and she tweeted, then deleted, that it had been 'very rude'.

Cabello replaced which coach on season 22 of The Voice?

Kelly Clarkson stepped away for the first time since joining in season 14, and her chair went to Cabello, who had been an adviser to John Legend's team the season before.

Cabello sang in French on a 2022 remix of Mon amour by which Belgian artist?

Stromae met her at the 2022 Met Gala, and the video casts the pair as bickering contestants on a Love Island-style reality show called Villa Mon Amour.

Which label did Cabello move to from Epic in September 2022?

Interscope signed her after nearly a decade at Epic, and her first album after the move, C,XOXO, swapped her Latin-tinged pop for a more experimental, rap-leaning sound.

Which rapper featured on I Luv It, the lead single from C,XOXO?

Playboi Carti's verse sits beside a chorus built from a sample of Gucci Mane's 2009 song Lemonade, on the single that opened her bleach-blonde new era.

Drake featured on which C,XOXO single?

Hot Uptown began with a direct message Cabello sent Drake, and the album's next track, Uuugly, is performed almost entirely by him.

What nickname for Miami titled the C,XOXO deluxe release?

Magic City is an old nickname for Miami, the home town where she recorded part of the album, and the edition added four songs led by the single Godspeed.

Which singer joined Cabello on Psychofreak, a Familia track the two performed on Saturday Night Live?

Willow shares the song, in which Cabello sings about her anxiety and, in one line, clears her former Fifth Harmony bandmates of blame for the way she left.