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Rauw Alejandro is rapidly making his sanction known successful music. The Puerto Rican singer-songwriter exploded onto the Latin euphony country with his 2016 mixtape, Punto de Equilibrio. His debut workplace album, Afrodisíaco, came successful 2020 and was nominated for the Best Musica Urbana Album Grammy. His latest album, Visa Versa, grabbed the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums illustration aft its 2021 debut. And helium performed a opus from it astatine the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, wherever helium was nominated for 4 trophies: Top Latin Artist, Top Latin Male Artist, Top Latin Album (‘Vice Versa’), and Top Latin Song (“Todo De Ti”).
Rauw Alejandro has performed with immoderate of the world’s apical artists (Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)
The milestones kept coming for Rauw successful 2023, including an engagement! Rauw and Spanish singing sensation Rosalia revealed the news of their engagement with their euphony video “Beso”, which dropped connected Friday, March 24. The collaboration was the archetypal azygous disconnected their medium R & R and successful the accompanying clip, Rosalia and Rauw shocked fans by letting them cognize helium proposed! At the extremity of the video, the “Malamente” hitmaker showed disconnected her gigantic sparkler, wiped a teardrop from her oculus and said successful Spanish, “Oh my God, I emotion you.”
On July 25, however, it was reported that Rauw and Rosalia has ended their engagement. Sources told PEOPLE that “despite the emotion and respect the singers person for 1 another, they person some agreed to extremity their engagement.” Rumors that Rauw cheated connected his erstwhile fiancee began to aboveground soon aft the divided went public, but helium released a statement denying the claim. He besides revealed that helium and Rosalia had already been abstracted amicably for months earlier the divided went public.
“Throughout each these years, you’ve been portion of my nonrecreational accomplishments, arsenic good arsenic each the blessed moments I lived with my partner,” the “LOKERA” vocalist wrote connected his Instagram Story and Twitter account, addressing fans successful Spanish, per Billboard. “I ne'er thought I’d beryllium successful a presumption wherever I’d person to springiness a nationalist connection astir specified a backstage substance successful my life.”
“Yes, a fewer months agone Rosi and I ended our engagement,” helium continued. “There are thousands of problems that tin origin a breakup but, successful our case, it was not due to the fact that of infidelity oregon a 3rd person. During this clip that I’m taking to assimilate everything, determination person been mendacious nationalist allegations, and due to the fact that of the respect I person for her, our families and each we ever lived, I couldn’t enactment quiescent and proceed to spot however they effort to destruct the astir existent emotion communicative God has ever allowed maine to live.” He concluded, “With thing much to add, to my fans that I emotion truthful much, convey you for being there.”
For those who haven’t yet gotten to cheque retired Rauw’s reggaeton-infused beats and creaseless vocals, oregon kept up connected his Rosalia romance, which helium gushes astir connected his Instagram, you tin larn a spot astir him below.
Music was not Rauw Alejandro’s archetypal choice
Rauw whitethorn beryllium busting coagulated moves connected signifier now, but earlier becoming a singer, helium wanted to beryllium a shot star. He grew up playing the athletics astatine Maria Auxiliadora School and was rather skilled, per All Music. He adjacent had his oculus connected a semi-pro league successful the United States earlier a genu wounded astatine the property of 20 took him retired of the game. He turned to music, his hobby, instead, and grew into a chart-topping artist.
Rauw Alejandro has collaborated with immoderate of the biggest stars
Rauw whitethorn inactive beryllium a rising star, but he’s already worked with immoderate of the biggest names successful showbiz. He was featured connected Selena Gomez‘s “Baila Conmigo,” which is the 2nd azygous disconnected her first-ever Spanish-language project, Revelación. Plus, successful April 2022, helium snagged different No. 1 spot connected Billboard’s Latin Airplay illustration with Shakira‘s “Te Felicito,” connected which helium serves arsenic the featured artist.
Rauw Alejandro is ever moving connected his adjacent move, but likes taking immoderate clip disconnected to walk with his woman (Photo; Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)
One of his collaborating producers, Tainy, 32, had thing but unthinkable things to accidental astir the vocalist successful a January 2022 interview. “He’s conscionable an breathtaking artist,” helium gushed to Rolling Stone. “To spot what he’s doing and what he’s susceptible of, the melody and the code of his voice, and harvester that with his ideas – however he’s reasoning astir what moves he’s gonna do, what the assemblage is going to bash – it’s thing truly special. His maturation is insane.”
Rauw is multi-talented
It’s starting to look similar determination isn’t thing Rauw can’t do. Aside from being a competitory shot subordinate and crowd-pleasing performer, helium besides acts. He is making his Netflix acting debut successful the Spanish connection play bid Sky Rojo, which is wrapping up filming its 3rd and last play successful 2022.
He’s not acrophobic to instrumentality up for himself
Although Rauw seems to beryllium rather progressive online and has amassed 14 cardinal followers connected Instagram, helium does not person a affirmative presumption of societal media. In his interrogation with Rolling Stone, helium said fans wholly overreacted regarding some beef helium had with chap Puerto Rican rapper Jhay Cortez. “Nowadays, the net is toxic. People exaggerate stuff, and there’s a batch of haters,” helium explained. “I’m astatine bid with the world. You know, I had a happening with this guy, this creator radical cognize successful Puerto Rico.”
He went connected to accidental the feud was implicit “stupid stuff.” He concluded: “I don’t care. I’m ever gonna beryllium me, I’m ever gonna respect my vision. I’m a chill guy, but I’m from Puerto Rico. If you f**k with me, yo soy un gallito de pelea (“I’m similar a vertebrate successful a cockfight”). I’m not afraid.”
Jhay and Rauw started a spot of an unhealthy rivalry successful summertime 2021 aft they some announced circuit dates astatine the aforesaid Puerto Rican venue conscionable hours apart. Jhay posted a photograph online reading: “Monkey See, Monkey Do,” per Rolling Stone, and fans assumed it was astir Rauw. Rauw’s opus “Hunter” is thought to beryllium a diss way astir Jhay, portion Jhay’s “Enterrauw” calls retired Rauw.
Regardless, they’re some incredibly palmy Latin-American singers, and it seems similar there’s country for some of them successful the charts and successful Puerto Rico.
Rosalía erstwhile held the cardinal to his heart
As of this writing, Rauw and Rosalia are nary longer romantically involved, but the handsome hunk had dated the Spanish vocalist from summertime 2021 until sometime earlier July 2023. The 2 weren’t frightened to amusement disconnected their love, arsenic Rosalía shared photos of the brace flirting underwater and wearing look masks unneurotic connected a Mexican getaway successful November 2021. And successful his Rolling Stone feature, Rauw besides said helium liked to instrumentality a interruption from enactment by spending clip with her.
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