Camila Cabello’s new album is like a “love letter to Miami.”
The 26-year-old singer was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to Miami when she was just seven years old – and she now describes the city as a “safe haven” for her and her family.
Camila told PUSS PUSS magazine: “I’m so grateful to Miami.
“I think that’s why I don’t really spend a lot of time in L.A. and people always ask me, ‘Are you living in Miami now?’ I’m like, ‘I never stopped living over there. I’ve lived there since I was seven.” That’s why it’s always been my home base.
“I feel like it took me and my family when I was seven. There are so many people with that kind of story. My best friends are Dominican. They moved there when they were seven years.
“Miami is a very special type of cultural melting pot. It’s almost like its own country.”
Camila believes that the influence of Miami is strongly felt on her new album.
The “Havana” singer also revealed that some of his family members are still in the process of leaving Cuba for the United States.
Teasing details of her new album, Camila said: “I feel like this album is kind of a love letter to Miami, it’s definitely a refuge for me. Whenever life gets crazy , I know I still go there and it’s real. It’s like my real friends when I was eight.
“My family, I still have family that’s from Cuba. It keeps me very real and grounded.”
Camila’s personal tastes were also heavily influenced by her hometown.
She shared: “A lot of my musical tastes also come from Miami. It’s such a melting pot.
“You drive down the street with the windows down and you hear afrobeat and rap and you hear Bad Bunny and salsa. You hear everything. I think that informed me, too.”
