Valentino Almeida Andronikov, goes by stage name “Teeny Tino” was born on the 14th of July, 1994, to an Afro-Latinx mother and a Russian father in San Juan, Puerto Rico and migrated along with their family to Miami, Florida at age 6. They are a character in the Channey Jon Universe and are a fusion of my best friend and i, hence the body, heritage, personality and looks. They identify as Non-Binary and signed to Channey Jon’s music label in 2017 as a rapper. Their songs are sassy, cocky and exude self-love. Where critics see Valentino as being too promiscuous, over-sexualised and even narcissistic, their fans and them fashion Valentino a revolutionary, mixing a “gangster” attitude with unapologetically being themself. Valentino might seem somewhat dumb on the surface, but is actually a very smart individual with a degree in political-science, and a burning ambition to normalise bodies that are out of the ordinary, such as their body, claiming that the only way to be Non-Binary isn’t to be a thin, shapeless white person who is praised for androgynity. Valentino loves to be provocative with lyrics such as “calling me a man on the press, while my kids still swim on your lips” or “my fat d**k isn’t the only hard iron i keep strapped on me”.
