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Fifth Harmony Fifth Harmony are a girl group formed on season 2 of the USA version of X Factor in July 2012. The group contains five members who are , Ally Brooke , Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane , Camila Cabello and Lauren Jauregui. When they left the show in third place the group signed a contract with Syco Music who was owned by their mentor on X Factor; Simon Cowell, this also meant they were signed to Epic Records , LO.A Reid’s record label along side. After there departure from the show after being voted out by the public they chose to release their debut single ‘Miss Movin On’ which hit the Hot 100 and the certified gold in the U.S. A year later the music video for the track was awarded the MTV Video Music Award. Then when they realised their debut album ‘Better Together’ in 2013 it had a first week position of number six on the U.S Billboars 200. The band continued to make different singles and realise new albums, however there most successful singles have been Boss , worth it and Sledgehammer with

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Fifth Harmony Fifth Harmony are a girl group formed on season 2 of the USA version of X Factor in July 2012. The group contains five members who are , Ally Brooke , Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane , Camila Cabello and Lauren Jauregui. When they left the show in third place the group signed a contract with Syco Music who was owned by their mentor on X Factor; Simon Cowell, this also meant they were signed to Epic Records , LO.A Reid’s record label along side. After there departure from the show after being voted out by the public they chose to release their debut single ‘Miss Movin On’ which hit the Hot 100 and the certified gold in the U.S. A year later the music video for the track was awarded the MTV Video Music Award. Then when they realised their debut album ‘Better Together’ in 2013 it had a first week position of number six on the U.S Billboars 200. The band continued to make different singles and realise new albums, however there most successful singles have been Boss , worth it and Sledgehammer with them all becoming platinum singles. Due to the groups huge success and popularity, with 7.5 million certified records sold in the United States, Fifth Harmony has emerged as the most successful alumni from the X Factor U.S. franchise.

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Camila CabelloKarla Camila Cabelo Estrabao who's known in the music industry as Camila Cabello was born in March 3rd 1997, She's a singer / performer who's style includes Pop and R&B genre. Camila became known when she appeared as a contestant on the X factor North Carolina auditions. She was born in Cojimar, Cuba and her family moved to the United States when Camila was age six, this is where she grew up and started to peruse her passion of singing on YouTube by posting weekly music covers of known artist songs. Currently one of the band members to fifth harmony she's known as the adorable and funny one in the group, the loud and jokable member who always has the group in stitches. Camilia auditioned for the X factor and was told she's been called back for auditions in front of the judges, after receiving yeses from all four judges she was then invited to bootcamp. Within her bootcamp audition she sung ‘Back to Black’ by Amy Winehouse during the first task, followed by task two requiring her to perform ‘Your Song’ with contestant Jordan Shane. After performing the judges came to the conclusion of making a huge decision to create a girl band, this is when the group fifth harmony formed and since then the artist has never looked back. During judges houses the girls performed ‘Impossible’ by Shontele , this intrigued Simon and he made the comment of saying that impossible was actually the reason he fell in love with the girl group. When Live performances arrived judges La Reid and Britney Spears weren't fond fans to the girls likings , however the girls caught the eyes of the public and they were soon being voted through ever week and with the support and confidence of Simon Cowell they continued to achieve big things once leaving the show. Camilia has actually realised her first single ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ which was published in November 2015 with Canadian Shawn Mendes . The single hit 97 on the billboard Hot 100 and she received a certified Platinum in February 2016

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Lauren JureguiLauren Jauregui was born on June 1996, she's Cuban-American but grew up in Miami, Florida. In her home town she went to Carrollton School of Sacred Heart until 7th grade. From a young age Lauren had a passion for singing and performing and chose to peruse the opportunity to show her talent by auditioning to be on the Xfactor in 2012, unfortunately she didn’t make it through as a solo artist after bootcamp but was given the opportunity to be in a girl band which was made up y the former judges, the group of five now call themselves fifth harmony. Lauren aspires to be a performer like Christina Aguilera and her influences include well known singers such as Kelly Clarkson and Coldplay. Juregui is a talented singer and very popular with the general public with her audition video from X factor receiving over 3 million views on YouTube.

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Normani Kordei Hamilton

Normani Kordei Hamilton is an American singer who was born in Alanta Georgue Circa on May 31 1996. Most of her childhood days were sent in New Orleans before moving to Houston Texas after the Hurricane Katrina struck near her area in 2005. At the age of only 13 Normani had recorded her first single . In 2012 she decided to audition for the U.S version of reality TV competition the X Factor in which she was placed into a girl group by the judges after not being put through in bootcamp as a solo artist. Hamilton hasn’t only appeared on X Factor she's been on the HBO original series Theme in a small role and she was an award winning dancer and gymnast before she found her passion for singing in which she perused when she was 13.

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Dinah Jane HansenDinah Jane Hansen is polunesian , Tongan and of Danish descent and also one of six siblings, she was born in Santa Ana California on June 22 1997. Hansen chose to audition for the X Factor with performance piece being ‘If I Were a Boy, by Beyoncé, who is one of her musical influences. Unfortunately during the final round of bootcamp she forgot apart of her song throughout the performance to ‘Stronger’ BY Kelly Clarkson. She was eliminated from the compaction as a solo artist but then was asked back onto stage to be apart of a formed girl band , which would later on be called fifth harmony. In early 20013 she signed a joint record deal along with fifth harmony to Sony Music which is Simon Cowell’s label which mentored hair and the group through their time on the X Factor.

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Allyson Brooke Hernandez

Allyson Brooke Hernandez also known as Ally Brooke was born on July 7th 1993. She applied for an Xfactor audition in Austin Textas and chose to sing ‘On My Knees’ from contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer Jack Velasquez. Unfortunately she didn't make it through as a solo singer but was actually placed into girl band which was later called fifth harmony on the show. They did extremely well finishing 3rd in the competition. During season two of the X factor the Huffington Post described Ally as her audition piece being one of the highlights from that season, describing her as having some amazing grace notes.

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Fifth Harmony's Style

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This is Fifth Harmony’s first music video, which is called ‘Miss Movin On’ it was released on July 16th 2013. The song is pop based and features all band members singing together in a carnival themed video, the lyrics which are bing sung highlight the idea of moving on from boys and how girls can live a better single life. The use of bold and intriguing combinations of patterns has produced an interesting and eye-catching music video. By the producer placing the girls in dresses and heels is brings out their girly side to their personality which also makes the video more exciting and fun, it also portrays the girls as young and innocent.

Music Videos

This is Fifth Harmonys most resent music video it is the second single by the american girl group and their second studio album 7/11 which was released on May 27 2016. The track features the hip hop artist Fetty Wrap, also the song contains an interpolation of the song /Flex’ by Mad cobra in 1995.