Reggaeton star Rauw Alehandro by Ruven Afanador for Rolling Stone February 2022.

Raúl Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz, known professionally as Rauw Alejandro, is a Puerto Rican singer and rapper on the cover of the February 2022 issue of Rolling Stone. Photographed by Ruvén Afanador [IG]. the talent wears a Red September jacket, designed by Olga Vasyukova, on the cover. Stylist Darius Baptist chooses stage-worthy looks from Alexander McQueen, Balmain, Roberto Cavalli, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello Balmain and more.

Raul Alejandro will be on stage Las Vegas’ First-Ever Vibra Urbana, scheduled for April 30 and May 1.

In the words of Rolling Stone, How Rauw Alejandro Became Reggaeton’s Singing, Dancing, Feuding, Lingerie-Dodging New Superstar took unshakable will — and some heartache — to arrive fully-formed “as a charismatic showman with a futuristic R&B-indebted sound.

Note that Ruven Afanador has a book ‘Torero’, with second edition signed copies available at Throckmorton Fine Art, 145 East 57th Street in NYC. The 20th anniversary exhibition runs through February 26th, 2022.

Raul Alejandro , featured in Rolling Stone's February issue, will join Las Vegas’ first-ever Vibra Urbana event.

Rolling Stone comes off its most profitable year — 2021 — in two decades. Gus Wenner, the son of Jann S. Wenner, Rolling Stone’s founder 55 years ago, has been named chief executive officer. Gus Wenner, now 31, helped orchestrate the sale of the historic magazine to Penske Media in 2017.

“I want Rolling Stone to be defined by two things and one is not new,” Wenner told Adweek. “The first is great journalism: that’s our North Star and it’s what made us into a globally recognized brand. The second is to build off that journalism into a bunch of new areas that are meaningful for young people today—and doing so in a multimedia fashion that was not the way of the past,” Wenner told Adweek.

The publisher hired Noah Shachtman, formerly the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, to serve as its new editorial lead in July 2021. Rolling Stone is moving into film and television production, a dedicated channel on Amazon-owned streaming service Twitch and new licensing deals. They include a partnership with the cannabis company Curaleaf.