The Nino is a Dominican YouTuber, gamer and rapper. The music is one thing he does; the channel is the other, and the channel came first.

Saquen Clip

The single arrived in 2021, and Trap de 5 Millones and CR7 followed. The titles say what the songs are for: a clip is what a gamer captures and posts, five million is a subscriber milestone, and CR7 is a footballer. They are records addressed to an audience that already existed somewhere else.

In August 2022 he signed a brand licensing agreement with the company Music Mafia RD.

A different order of operations

For most of the last century a Dominican musician built an audience by making records. This is the inversion: the audience is assembled by streaming games, and the record is something the audience is then offered.

Whether that produces durable music is not yet answerable, and there is not much catalogue to judge it on. What it certainly produces is reach — a Dominican channel of that size is heard by more people in a week than most merengue orchestras reached in a career.

Nothing else about him is documented. No legal name, no date of birth, no town.