Camila Cabello celebrates grandmother’s novel and energy

The “Havana” singer traveled final week to Málaga, Spain, to have a good time and assist promote Rodriguez’s ebook, which tells the story of a girl who separates from her husband after a few years of marriage. The story throughout its 329 pages weaves by the girl’s efforts to reunite together with her daughter and granddaughters within the U.S. — a story that mirrors occasions within the lives of Cabello’s household.

“In the long run I completed it in a short time, actually, in a short time, as a result of it’s the story of my life and I nonetheless have a superb reminiscence,” Rodriguez stated.

As Rodriguez, 75, mentioned the novel, Cabello held her hand. “My household is such an enormous a part of who I’m, it’s such a giant a part of who I’m as an artist, it’s such a giant a part of my music,” Cabello stated.

Music is sort of a character all through the novel — each chapter is known as after a bolero, the music style of romantic lyrics originated in Cuba that grew to become very talked-about within the first half of the twentieth century all through Latin America. For Rodriguez, music is crucial: “It’s one thing that no human being can cease residing with as a way to be completely satisfied,” she stated.

Of her granddaughter’s success, Rodriguez stated, “It’s in her blood, she has pictures at 2-years-old with a microphone in her hand and with the radio on.

“I hear her sing at a live performance, for instance, and I even get breathless, it excites me a lot, I simply can’t clarify it to you,” She stated. “It’s one thing I’ve by no means felt in my life, seeing her on stage singing or listening to a report of her.”

Rodriguez’s favourite Cabello music, “By no means Be the Identical,” stirs up intense feelings. “I can’t hear it as a result of I make a idiot of myself, I instantly begin crying,” she stated.

Different household favorites embrace music of their native Cuba, in addition to Latin pop stars as Alejandro Sanz or Luis Miguel, and a famous person favored by Cabello’s grandmother: Ed Sheeran.

Cabello stated that she feels a particular bond with the ladies of her household, a lineage that stretches again to her grandma’s grandmother, who Rodriguez known as Isabelita.

“I really feel like I wouldn’t be like who I’m right now if it weren’t for the truth that my household has such sturdy ladies. All ladies who’ve had sturdy personalities and who’ve achieved issues their means,” she stated, citing how her nice nice grandmother was “pondering actually forward of her time when it comes to sexuality and relationships.” (Cabello notes it’s a theme her grandmother explores in “Los boleros que he vivido.”)

“My mother has all the time been the identical means, she,” Cabello stated, referencing Rodriguez, “has all the time been the identical means, my sister, who’s 15, is any person like that too. Very impartial thinkers.”