e was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. From a very young age he began to love music and singing because his father was a bandoneon player. But his first love was folk music and he also sang romantic music. At age 20 he fell for tango from which he never parted.

His debut was in 1981 at the Teatro Carlos Brussa with the Walter Méndez orchestra. Later he appeared in a large number of dancehalls: Sudamérica, Palacio Salvo, Casa de Galicia and others. The singer Aníbal Oberlín invited him to appear on TV Channel 5 in the program Café concert.

In 1982 he appeared in Buenos Aires at El Rincón de los Artistas, Remembranzas and El Farolito. In 1984 he was linked to the cultural association Joventango and, since then, he has appeared at tango festivals organized by that institution.

In the 90s he began his tours of Canada, appearing at hotels, theaters, television and radios. In Toronto he was awarded a prize as best performer and for best song at the Hispanic-Portuguese Festival of Song with "Balada para mi hijo" (Ballad for my son).

From 1992 to 1996 he made four tours of the United States as soloist. In 1992 he appeared at the Teatro Solís of Montevideo accompanied by the trio led by Edison Bordón and shared the bill with the Salgán-De Lío duo at the V Festival de Tango organized by Joventango.

Time later, between 1992 and 1996, he made several tours with the orchestras led by Juan Carlos Croccia, Antonio Cerviño and the Sexteto Típico Bohemio.

In 1995 he sang in the Sala Verdi, for a homage to Carlos Gardel, and at the Teatro Solís, for a homage to the vedette Rosa Luna. Furthermore, he went on appearing at the mythical tango temple, Fun-Fun, one of the pillars of the Uruguayan culture for 115 years. He was then accompanied by Lucho Martínez (guitar) and Edison Bordón (bandoneon).

In 1996 he appeared at the Tercera Cumbre Mundial del Tango (Third World Tango Summit) held in Uruguay. That same year he contributed to the homage to Amalia de la Vega at the Sala Verdi. Thereafter, and for three years, he was at the peak of his career when he joined the orchestra headed by Donato Racciatti with which he toured Uruguay and traveled to Japan twice.

Three years later he went to Chicago, in the United States, with the company Naturalmente Tango with a cast of fifteen artists. He was host and singer at the tango venue known as La Casa de Becho, originally the living place of Gerardo Matos Rodríguez. In 1996 and 2002 he appeared in many cities of Canada where he was backed up by the Uruguayan pianist Walter Gugliotta.

In May 2005 he again performed in Toronto, Montreal and in New Jersey, New York and Washington along with Olga Delgrossi and the bandoneonist Ricardo Aguinaga hired by my production company Tango y Punto.

In 2008 at the Sala Zitarrosa he appeared at the play Entretanto Tangos with texts by the playwright Dino Armas which was directed by Sergio Dotta. They were accompanied by the trio led by Álvaro Hagopian, conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo. Also that year he returned to North America as member of the Panamerican Symphonic Orchestra conducted by maestro Sergio Buslje due to the invitation of the Uruguayan bandoneonist Raúl Jaurena.

In 2009 at the Sala Zitarrosa he premiered the show Pino y las Mujeres del Tango under the direction of Dotta and with texts by Armas and the accompaniment of the Hagopian trio. In November he traveled to Spain with a show that included poems by the writer Mario Benedetti.

In September 2010 he started another tour of the United States and appeared in many cities of that country, accompanied by the Panamerican Symphonic Orchestra of Washington, the Quinteto Quintango and the pianist Mari Paz.

In the early 2011 he signed as exclusive artist of the Sondor label of Uruguay. Furthermore, he received two important invitations: one by the organization of the Cumbre Mundial del Tango, in order to represent Uruguay in July 2011 in the city of Seinajoki, Finland; another, by the Embassy of Uruguay to Colombia, for the celebrations of the bicentennial of the coffee producing nation and, also, for the Cumbre Mundial de Tango to be held in Medellín.

As the readers of Todo Tango can ponder, the activity of Nelson Pino is never ending. And, we think, it is because people have truly recognized his quality and talent.