“On The X Factor, I kind of became the person that I wanted to be. “There’s way less risk performing or exposing yourself to strangers than there is in your own town or school,” says Cabello, who felt trapped and miserable inside the inhibited persona she’d created for herself. She has what Simon Cowell calls the X factor, which is why, in 2012, when she was 15, Cabello convinced her parents to spend the money for her quinceañera celebration to drive her and the rest of the family to North Carolina to audition for Cowell’s show. The girl comes alive in front of the camera or when she’s up on stage in a packed stadium.
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With her enormous liquid-brown eyes and voice that swings effortlessly from a deep, smoky growl to a breathy high pitch, Cabello is a temptress with a sense of humor, a geek unafraid to make fun of herself. “Basically, there’s the me that I really am, on the inside, which is the nerdy one-the kind of introverted, shy one-and then there’s the sexy, overly confident one, doing great dance moves and being super sassy.”Ĭabello’s irresistible video for “Havana” nicely showcases these two sides of her personality. “I love any activity where I can observe and not necessarily be a part of it.”Įxcept, of course, when she’s in the middle of the spotlight in a tiny shimmery dress, dancing in front of thousands of people. “I’m an introvert,” explains Cabello, who once turned down an offer to star in her middle school’s musical because the thought of singing in front of her whole school froze her heart. Sometimes she sang through the closet door to her grandmother, but if that door opened, forget it. Sometimes Cabello sang to a friend over the phone. So she practiced by doing karaoke to Britney Spears and Hilary Duff albums in the basement. (Image credit: Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello)īut she also really needed to sing. “I had intense performance anxiety as a kid,” says Cabello, who arrived in the States speaking zero English and blasted her favorite pop songs from her boom box at school in an attempt to attract kindred spirits. Cabello loves nothing more than the idea of baring her soul, of sharing her deepest secrets with the world, but she also hates the idea of doing it in front of anyone she actually knows. In order to understand Cabello properly, you have to understand, first of all, that she is very shy-and also that she is a natural exhibitionist. “We all wanted to be singers.” The fact that Cabello actually grew up to be a singer, however, still seems pretty miraculous because, for most of her childhood, Cabello suffered from intense stage fright.īasically, there’s the me that I really am, on the inside, which is the nerdy one-the kind of introverted, shy one-and then there’s the sexy, overly confident one, doing great dance moves and being super sassy. It’s also the place that made Cabello want to perform.“My friends and I all wanted to be on the Disney Channel growing up,” she says. It’s where her mother told her they were going when she loaded her onto a bus from Mexico City to emigrate to Florida. When she was growing up, Disney World was not so much a place for Cabello as her personal North Star. Oh yeah, and “Havana” is now Spotify’s most-streamed song by a solo female artist in its history, with more than a billion streams. She just bought a house for herself and her family in Miami. She’s in love with her boyfriend, British relationship coach Matthew Hussey. She’s pretty sure things are finally cool with her former bandmates in the girl group Fifth Harmony (after a controversial breakup two years ago). She picked up four American Music Awards in October, including New Artist of the Year. Camila won Cabello the Artist of the Year award at MTV’s Video Music Awards, and she also won for Video of the Year (for “Havana”). I’m at this point in my life when I’m so happy-it’s hard to say no.”Īnyone who’s heard Cabello’s sultry monster hit “Havana” (which, let’s face it, is everyone) knows she’s had a heck of a year.
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Fresh from the shower and dressed in a hoodie and sweats, her long dark hair combed over her shoulders, Cabello curls up on the couch, tucks her white-socked feet beneath her, and continues: “It’s hard, though.
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It’s late night in Pittsburgh, and she’s just finished singing “Shake It Off” with Swift and Charli XCX at Heinz Field.