Nino Ošlak

Nino Ošlak, also known simply as Nino, is a Slovenian pop singer, songwriter, producer and music teacher, born on 19 August 1991 in Slovenj Gradec. He grew up in Velenje and has lived and worked in Ljubljana since secondary school. He finished the music and ballet secondary school there in 2009, then studied at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he took his master's degree in 2015.

His first single, "Mi amor", came out in autumn 2008 with his first music video. During his studies he released "Žal mi je", "Ti in jaz", "Zadnje upanje" and "Simfonija", and in 2011 he sang "S tabo je lepo" at the Sunčane skale festival in Montenegro. His debut album, Simfonija (2013), held 13 songs with music and lyrics all his own, and in 2015 his video for "A je vse ok?" went on the playlist of MTV Adria.

The second album, Pod tušem, followed in April 2016, and the third, Nekaj je na tebi, in 2019. Its single "Rabim te" spent a week as the second most played Slovenian song on the SloTop50 airplay chart, and in 2021 "Ko si z mano" became the most played Slovenian song there and the second most played song of all. In September 2023 he won the audience vote at Popevka 2023 with "Med nama".

In November 2024 he marked 15 years of his career with a concert at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana, and that December he released his fourth album, Elektro-romantika, on Menart Records. The fifth, Sr(e)čni momenti, followed early in 2026: his first live album, recorded at a big concert in Ljubljana's Festivalna dvorana at the end of 2025.

Nino Ošlak also writes for other artists, including Helena Blagne ("Za božič pridemo skupaj") and San Di Ego ("Brez tebe", EMA 2016), and as producer and co-writer he helped the young singer Anabel win Poprock 2017 with "Ob kavi". He has dubbed cartoons and animated films too, among them Patrick in the Slovenian version of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.