Nina (singer)
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Nina in 2004
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| Birth name | Anna Maria Agustí Flores |
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1 October 1966 Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
Anna Maria Agustí Flores (Barcelona, 1 October 1966), known professionally as Nina, is a Spanish musical actress and singer.
Nina started her music career in the 1980s performing with bands like "Costa Brava" or "Xavier Cugat", backed by Catalan musician Xavier Cugat. In 1987, she rose to fame nationwide in the popular Televisión Española game show Un, dos, tres, where she was cast as one of the "secretaries".
She represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 with the song "Nacida para amar" ("Born to Love") by Juan Carlos Calderón. She finished in sixth place.
Subsequently, she has worked as an actress in several television shows on TV3 and Televisión Española, has also collaborated in radio programmes, and has released records mainly in Catalan language. From 2001 to 2004, she had a prominent role as the "director of the academy" in the first three seasons of reality talent show Operación Triunfo on TVE; in 2011 she came back as the director of the academy in the eight and final season of Operación Triunfo, on Telecinco.
She has also worked in stage musicals like Las cuatro cartas (1990), Cabaret (1992), Casem-nos una mica (1993), Te odio mi amor (1995), Company (1997) Pierrot Lunaire (1998), Corre, corre Diva (1998), Espai pel somni (1999), Programa Sondheim (2000), and the Spanish production of Mamma Mia! (2004–2010, 2015-), where she stars as Donna.
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