Camila Cabello Already Working On First Solo Album After Leaving Fifth Harmony, Says Source

Camila Cabello is ready to start her solo career after leaving Fifth Harmony. The singer is already working on her first solo album, according to Entertainment Weekly, and it will be released next year.

A source reportedly said that all the members of the band have signed contracts as individual artists with Epic Records, and Cabello is the first one to release her solo effort. Cabello is working with producers Diplo and Benny Blanco, according to Billboard.

News of Cabello’s solo effort comes a few days after Lauren Jauregui, Dinah Jane Hansen, Normani Hamilton and Ally Brooke Hernandez announced that Cabello has left the group. The four said that they learned of Cabello’s decision via her representatives. They also assured fans that they will continue making music for them. The four also said that they will do solo projects while still performing as a group.

Cabello said that she found it unfair that her former bandmates said they learned about her exit from her representatives because she has had conversations with them about her plans to pursue a solo career. “Just like the girls said in their statement about their plans, I had also planned to continue with my own solo endeavors in the new year but did not intend to end things with Fifth Harmony this way,” Cabello said.

The girls maintain that it was Cabello who wanted out of the group and that there was no way that she was booted out. “We have spent the past year and a half (since her initial solo endeavor) trying to communicate to her and her team all of the reasons why we felt Fifth Harmony deserved at least one more album of her time, given the success of this past year that we all worked so hard for,” the group said.

Cabello collaborated with Shawn Mendes in the 2015 hit “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” She also recently collaborated with Machine Gun Kelly in “Bad Things.”