Nini Agustí was discovered by
Xavier Cugat,
and with him she took her first steps in show business. Cugat
introduced her to
'Narciso Ibañez
Serrador' who
invited her to appear as a singer in the sixth season of
Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (1972)
in 1987. After the summer break, Nina had been chosen by Chicho to join
the team of secretaries for the rest of the season, and so be part of
the program for good, a work that made her very famous in Spain thanks
to the numerous musicals numbers she performed in the show and her
strong and powerful voice.
After that sixth season was finished, she started her musical career.
One year later, in 1989, she was chosen by TVE to be the Spanish
representative for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Nacida
para amar", composed by
Juan Carlos Calderón. She finished
in sixth position.
Unfortunately, her musical career wasn't as successful, and the same
happened with her TV appearances. During the 1990s, she almost
disappeared from national TV. She only did the mini-series
Entre naranjos (1998). In
Catalonia, she appeared in a couple of series. These days, Nina had
focused her career on stage plays and musicals.
But her TV career wasn't gone for good. In 2001, she came back to the
top when she joined the crew of the hit show
Operación triunfo (2001),
as the director of the Academy of Artists. There, she regained all the
fame and glory she had during the 80s. Nina stayed in the show for
three seasons, from 2001 to 2004.
Then, the show was canceled from TVE due to low ratings, and Nina
decided to return to musicals, joining the cast of the Spanish version
of the popular musical "Mamma mia" based on ABBA songs. Because of this
successful work, she couldn't join the fourth season of "Operación
Triunfo" that was beginning in summer 2005 in the private national
channel Telecinco. The TV show was being made in Barcelona, and Nina
had to be in Madrid to do "Mamma mia".
Nevertheless, she has appeared in a couple of programs of this four
seasons, first to bid good luck to the participants, and then to sing a
song of the musical, "Va todo al ganador" ("The Winner Takes It All").