Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao was born on March 3, 1997, in Cojimar, a small fishing town near Havana, Cuba. Her mother, Sinuhe Estrabao, is a Cuban-born architect, and her father, Alejandro Cabello, is Mexican. The family relocated to Mexico City when Cabello was young, and at age six she moved with her mother to Miami, Florida, on a tourist visa, later gaining US citizenship; her father joined them in Miami some time afterward. Cabello grew up bilingual in Spanish and English and has described a financially difficult early childhood in the US before her parents’ careers stabilized. In 2012, at age 15, she auditioned as a solo singer for the US version of “The X Factor.”

On “The X Factor USA,” judges eliminated Cabello as a soloist but regrouped her with four other contestants — Ally Brooke, Normani, Dinah Jane, and Lauren Jauregui — into a girl group that became Fifth Harmony. The group finished third on the show in 2012, and in January 2013 signed a joint recording deal with Simon Cowell’s Syco Music and LA Reid’s Epic Records, as Billboard later confirmed when reporting on the group’s contract renewal. Fifth Harmony went on to become one of the best-selling girl groups of the 2010s behind albums including “Reflection” (2015) and “7/27” (2016) and the hit single “Work from Home.” Cabello announced her departure from the group in December 2016 to pursue a solo career; days later, Epic and Syco exercised their option to keep the remaining four members signed, confirming the structure of the original joint deal.

Cabello’s solo breakthrough came with “Havana,” featuring Young Thug, released in 2017. The song became her first Hot 100 number one, and Billboard reported that when her debut album, “Camila,” entered at number one on the Billboard 200 the same week, she became the first woman since Beyonce to top the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously in a debut week, and the first solo artist in nearly 15 years to also lead the Artist 100 chart at the same time. She toured behind the album on the Never Be the Same Tour in 2018. Her 2019 duet with then-boyfriend Shawn Mendes, “Senorita,” gave her a second Hot 100 number one and set a Spotify record for the biggest male/female duet debut. Her second album, “Romance,” followed in December 2019; a supporting arena tour was announced but ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, Cabello starred in the title role of Amazon Studios’ “Cinderella,” a film musical originally set for a Sony theatrical release before the pandemic pushed it to streaming. She released “Familia” in April 2022, her final album for Epic Records, then signed with Interscope Records later that year (see Contracts, below) and served as a coach on NBC’s “The Voice” for its 22nd season in 2022. Her fourth studio album, “C,XOXO,” arrived in 2024, and she toured Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America on the Yours, C Tour in 2025.

Cabello does not disclose personal income, and as an independent artist her earnings vary year to year with album cycles, touring, and brand work rather than a fixed salary. The best-documented single-year figure is her reported fee for coaching “The Voice” in 2022: entertainment outlets including TVInsider put a first-time coach’s pay in the multimillion-dollar range, with some reports citing a figure around $8 million for Cabello’s debut season, though NBC has never confirmed coach salaries publicly, so this should be treated as a media estimate rather than a verified number. Touring income is harder to pin down: no audited Billboard Boxscore gross has been published for either the 2018 Never Be the Same Tour or the 2025 Yours, C Tour, and the planned 2020 Romance Tour was cancelled before generating any box-office revenue. Recorded-music income is better evidenced through certifications and streaming milestones detailed below.

Cabello’s recording career began under the joint Syco Music/Epic Records deal signed with Fifth Harmony in January 2013, and she continued to record as a solo artist for Epic (with Syco’s involvement fading after Simon Cowell wound the label down) through three studio albums — “Camila” (2018), “Romance” (2019), and “Familia” (2022). In September 2022, Variety reported that Cabello had signed with Interscope Records, part of Universal Music Group, ending her nearly decade-long run at Epic; specific financial terms of the new deal were not disclosed. Her recorded catalogue carries substantial certified sales: “Havana” was certified RIAA Diamond in October 2021, denoting 10 million equivalent units, and “Camila” and “Romance” were each certified RIAA Platinum. “Never Be the Same” has been certified multi-platinum by the RIAA as well. These certifications reflect chart and streaming performance, not a direct dollar figure, since songwriter, producer, and label shares are deducted before an artist’s personal royalty is calculated.

Cabello became the face of Guess’s Fall 2017 denim campaign, Billboard reported exclusively at the time, her first major solo fashion campaign following Fifth Harmony’s own Guess partnership. She has been a global brand ambassador for L’Oreal Paris since 2017, and in 2018 the two collaborated on a 14-piece “Havana”-themed makeup collection, according to a PR Newswire announcement from the brand. In 2022, Victoria’s Secret named her the face of its Bombshell fragrance in the company’s first bilingual ad campaign, per an official Victoria’s Secret & Co. press release. None of these announcements disclosed deal values, which is standard practice for celebrity endorsement contracts.

Cabello is a documented investor in the prebiotic soda brand OLIPOP. A GlobeNewswire release confirms she was among the celebrity investors in OLIPOP’s $30 million Series B round in February 2022, and a follow-up GlobeNewswire announcement from that September named her OLIPOP’s first major brand partner. Neither release disclosed the size of her equity stake or the value of the partnership deal. Beyond this, independent reporting does not document a company founded or majority-owned by Cabello; she sells tour merchandise through an official store, standard for an artist of her stature, but no record label, restaurant, or other outside venture is substantiated in mainstream press.

Cabello bought a four-bedroom, Mediterranean-style home in the Hollywood Hills for $3.375 million in April 2019, a roughly 3,570-square-foot property where she converted a guest bedroom into a home recording studio. She sold the property in December 2021 for $4.3 million, according to E! News, which cited public sale records. No reliable public record locates a specific current primary residence for Cabello; she has spoken in interviews about spending time in both the Miami area, where she grew up, and Los Angeles, but no verifiable purchase price or address for a current property has been documented in mainstream reporting.