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How Rolling Stone’s Suzy Exposito Made History with Her Bad Bunny Cover Story

Latina to Latina

LWC Studios

Aliciamenendez, Entrepreneurship, News, Entertainment News, 519788, Business, Latinas, Lantiguawilliams, Latinos, Hispanics, Society & Culture

4.8618 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

If you've seen the recent issue of Rolling Stone, then you know that Bad Bunny made history as the first Latin urban music artist to grace the cover of the iconic magazine.

0:19.9

And behind that glossy image is three

0:22.3

Latinas who made it happen. Susie Exposito, the magazine's Latin music editor, wrote the cover

0:27.6

story. She plotted for months with Bad Bunny's publicist Sujali Solah to make it happen. And

0:33.2

Gabriella Bellingeri, a jewelry designer and Benito's girlfriend, shot the cover on her iPhone in the middle of a pandemic.

0:40.9

This is the story of how these fierce Latinas made magazine history.

0:52.2

First of all, congratulations.

0:54.6

It's a huge deal.

0:56.3

You're welcome.

0:57.3

Thank you so much.

0:58.7

And I'm glad that you seem like you are processing that it's a big deal.

1:03.7

Still processing.

1:05.3

Yep.

1:06.9

It's wild.

1:09.8

It's just wild.

1:12.0

I feel like I am constantly pitching celebrities and publicists.

1:18.6

So let me ask you, before we even get into the making of this, how were you able to score an interview with Bad Bunny?

1:26.8

Luckily, I had interviewed him before. I interviewed

1:30.2

him at the Latin Grammys in 2018, and I seemed to have caught him at a time where he was

1:37.9

definitely, you know, making it big in the Latin space, but had just, you know, started to crack the Anglophone market.

1:47.5

And I went to the Latin Grammys and figured, you know what, this is like where I'm going to find

1:52.9

him.

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