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Like millions of migrants, Cuban singer and actress Camila Cabello knows exactly what it means to leave her family and set out to improve living conditions in another country.
That’s why the “Bam Bam” hitmaker doesn’t forget her roots, which she tries to portray in her new record “Familia.”
Now the 25-year-old interpreter, who managed to build a successful career midway through the show, recently recalled the moment she had to leave her country and cross the border between Mexico and the United States at the age of 7.
“My mother crossed the Mexican border with me when I was 7 years old. We had to leave my father. She only had a few clothes in a backpack, basically no money, she didn’t speak English,” the artist told Carpool Karaoke del program ‘The Late Late Show with James Corden’ this week.
Born in Havana in 1995, the Cuban moved to Mexico when she was just five years old due to her Mexican father’s nationality. Two years later, however, she had to cross the border with her Cuban mother and benefit from the dry-foot/wet-foot migration policies the United States then had in place towards the island’s citizens.
Later, according to the ‘Cinderella’ star, her father caught up with her: “My father literally swam across the river [Bravo]”, called.
Among the details, Camila Cabello assured that her family had told her they were going to Disney, so all she took with her was her diary and a toy.
This isn’t the first time in her life that Cabello has spoken about this episode. He previously said in an interview with Popsugar Latina magazine that until now he is aware of the danger and fear that his parents must have felt at the time.
“I didn’t realize it then, but I’m aware now. I think of the fear they both went through,” he said. “We decided to start from scratch with a few hundred dollars, the clothes on our backs, no relatives in America and no idea what was going to happen the next day.”