Camila Cabello

Camila Cabello was born in the Habana del Este district of Cojímar in Havana, Cuba, 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. For most of her early life, Cabello and her family moved back and forth between Havana and Mexico City, the country from which she acquired Mexican nationality in 1997. 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 learned the program in a week and later earned enough money to move into an apartment with Cabello. Cabello's mother and father eventually formed a construction company named after her and her sister. Cabello acquired American citizenship in 2008.