Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao, was born March 3, 1997 in Havana, Cuba. Her father is Mexican and was born in Mexico City, before moving to Cuba, so she spent much of her early life moving back-and-forth between Cuba and Mexico.She immigrated with her mother from Cuba to Miami. As a child, Camila Cabello would regularly sing along with a karaoke machine in her basement. Her first singing audition was for a school musical, where she performed Beyoncé’s “Listen. At 15, Camila Cabello and her family drove from Miami to North Carolina to audition for Simon Cowell’s The X Factor. She was chosen as an alternate, and months later, was invited by Cowell to be part of a girl group that would come in third in the competition. The group, Fifth Harmony, would go on to become one of the most successful girl groups since Destiny’s Child, releasing chart-topping albums Reflection (2015) and 7/27 (2016) and hits like “BO$$,” “Worth It,” and “Work from Home.” While on tour with Fifth Harmony, Camila Cabello began writing music on her own, often using her laptop to produce beats and rehearsing lyrics in hotel bathrooms. She also began collaborating with other artists, producing the song “I Know What You Did Last Summer” with Shawn Mendes and “Bad Things” with Machine Gun Kelly.                                                          In 2017, Camila Cabello left Fifth Harmony and began working on her first solo album, collaborating with producers and writers such as Frank Dukes, Pharrell, Benny Blanco, Ryan Tedder, Skrillex, Ed Sheeran, Jarami, Jesse Shatkin and Happy Perez. While working on the album, she also collaborated with Cashmere Cat on the song “Love Incredible” and with Pitbull and J Balvin on “Hey Ma,” on the Fate of the Furious soundtrack. She also released the single “Crying in the Club,” written by Sia Furler, and joined Bruno Mars as the opening act on his 24K Magic World Tour.                                      Her debut album “Camila" was released January 2018, and was streamed over a billion times in the first month. The first single on the album, “Havana,” featured Young Thug and peaked at #1 on U.S. and U.K charts. Following the release of Camila, Cabello performed as a solo artists on the Never Be The Same Tour, and joined Charli XCX on Taylor Swift’s 2018 Reputation Stadium Tour. That year she also released a second version of the song “Never Be the Same,” featuring country singer Kane Brown.                                             In April 2019, it was announced that Cabello would star in an upcoming film adaptation of Cinderella, directed by Kay Cannon for Sony Pictures.
On December 2019, Camila Cabello released her second album “Romance" which featured collaborations with Shawn Mendes and DaBaby and songs produced by Finneas O’Connell, RØMANS, Andrew Watt, Justin Tranter, and Jon Bellion, among others.                          On April 8, 2022, her third album “Familia" was released and accompanied by a virtual TikTok concert 'immersive performance' titled "Familia: Welcome to the Family”.
In February 2016, Camila Cabello announced she had partnered with Save the Children to design a limited-edition "Love Only" T-shirt to help raise awareness of issues involving girls' equal access to education, health care and opportunities to succeed. In June 2016, Camila Cabello's producer Benny Blanco, and members of the nonprofit arts organization OMG Everywhere helped to create the charity single "Power in Me”. Camila Cabello has also partnered with the Children's Health Fund, a non-profit dedicated to providing health care to low-income families with children.
In 2017,  she performed at Zedd’s WELCOME! Fundraising Concert to raise money for ACLU, and joined Lin-Manuel Miranda and other Latin artists on the song “Almost Like Praying” for Puerto Rico Hurricane relief after Hurricane Maria. In 2018, Cabello and Ryan Seacrest visited Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, signing autographs and taking pictures with patients.  Later that year, she became an ambassador for the organization Save the Children, and announced she was donating all proceeds of “Havana” to the ACLU for DREAMers. In March 2020, Cabello participated in iHeart Media's Living Room Concert for America, a benefit to raise awareness and funds for the COVID-19 pandemic.
On May 9, 2022, it was announced that Camila Cabello would headline the UEFA Champions League Final. On May 28, 2022, she performed "Señorita", "Havana", "Bam Bam" and "Don't Go Yet" during the UEFA Champions League Final opening ceremony, and the performance was the most viewed video on UEFA's channel.