Camila Rajchman
Camila Rajchman Goldfarb is an Uruguayan singer, songwriter and television personality. She is best known for being the vocalist of the cumbia-pop band Rombai from 2014 to 2016.
Life and career
1994–2014: Early life
Camila Rajchman was born in Montevideo on November 26, 1994, into a Jewish family. She is the youngest of four daughters of entrepreneur José Rachman and schoolteacher Gabriela Goldfarb. She is also the granddaughter of Chil Rajchman, a Polish Holocaust survivor who settled in Uruguay after World War II.She completed her primary and secondary education at Woodlands School, a private school in the Carrasco neighborhood, and later pursued her high school studies at Liceo Integral. After graduating, she enrolled at Universidad ORT Uruguay where she studied for a degree in communication and audiovisual technology.
2014–2016: Breakthrough with Rombai
While pursuing her university studies in late 2014, she formed the cumbia pop band Rombai with Fer Vázquez and some fellow students. Their debut single, “Locuras contigo,” quickly became a summer hit, amassing millions of views on YouTube and playing a key role in bringing the cumbia pop style into the mainstream of the Río de la Plata region.Throughout 2015, the group released several chart-topping singles, toured across various Latin American countries, and appeared on numerous television programs and events, further boosting their popularity. They also performed joint concerts and had songs featuring fellow Uruguayan band Márama. In January 2016 the band released their first album De Fiesta.
In March 2016, Rajchman announced her departure from Rombai, and on April 29 of that year, she performed for the last time with the group at Luna Park in Buenos Aires. She was later replaced as vocalist by Argentine singer Emilia Mernes. In June 2016, months after her departure from the band, Marama - Rombai - El viaje was released, a tour film showcasing the joint tour of both bands.
2016–present: Departure from Rombai and television career
After her departure from Rombai in March 2016, she began a career in television. From May to August, she was a panelist on the Argentine reality show Gran Hermano. In 2017 she joined for two months, the panel of the morning television show Desayunos informales, as a replacement panelist for Andy Vila. After a few months, she began to be the show's reporter. In 2021 she joined the culinary competition Fuego Sagrado as the community manager. In 2022 she joined ¿Quién es la máscara? as the backstage host, and began hosting game show El Último Pasajero with Jorge Echagüe. In July she left Desayunos informales, and after the finals of El Último Pasajero and ¿Quién es la máscara? she turned away from the television.In November 2022, she began hosting the program Weno que pasó on the streaming channel Aweno TV.