Two Latinas created Rolling Stone’s historic Bad Bunny cover, a first for the magazine – NBC News

Grammy-nominated reggaeton singer Contaminated Bunny made historical previous on Thursday by turning into the first Latin metropolis song artist to grace the quilt of Rolling Stone magazine. However the 2 Latinas within the relieve of the ancient quilt story also broke flooring.

Rolling Stone’s Latin song editor Suzy Exposito grew to change into the first Latina to ever write a quilt story for the magazine and Gabriela Berlingeri, a jewellery vogue designer and Contaminated Bunny’s lady friend, grew to change into the first Latina to shoot a quilt photo for Rolling Stone.

“THIS COVER WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LATINAS,” Exposito tweeted.

Catriona Ni Aolain, Rolling Stone’s director of inventive vow, said they tapped Berlingeri for relief to shoot the magazine quilt no topic no longer being a legitimate photographer because of the the coronavirus pandemic.

Rolling Stone relied on Berlingeri and an iPhone camera to document Contaminated Bunny’s days in quarantine at an Airbnb in Puerto Rico, where they every are residing.

“It wasn’t planned. It became very random,” Berlingeri told Rolling Stone.”I believed clearly that it became going to be a if fact be told chilly photoshoot but it absolutely’s complex for me to settle for that goes to be the quilt for Rolling Stone.”

Contaminated Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, reached stardom after rising to the tip of the charts in 2018 by collaborating with world-famend artists fancy Marc Anthony, Jennifer López, Nicky Jam and a few others in over a dozen songs and remixes besides to touchdown a 2019 Grammy nomination alongside Cardi B and J Balvin for “Boom Of The Yr” with hit “I Esteem It.”

Songs from his solo albums “X100PRE,” a play on letters and numbers that reads “por siempre,” Spanish for “forever,” besides to from “YHLQMDLG” — a made-up Spanish acronym that stands for “I make irrespective of I need” and his latest album “LAS QUE NO IBAN A SALIR,” (that diagram “those who weren’t going out”), which dropped on Mother’s Day are repeatedly trending on song streaming platforms similar to Spotify, YouTube and Apple Tune.

“The minute boy from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, the minute naive boy that labored on the supermarket, the son of Tito and Lysaurie, that is the identical guy on the quilt of Rolling Stone,” Contaminated Bunny wrote on his Instagram in Spanish. “No person, no one, no one, no one but no one, can ever converse me what I will or can no longer make.”

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