Tanu Muino

Tetyana Robertivna Muinyo

(1989-12-07) 7 December 1989
Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)

Music video director, photographer

2001–present

Biography[edit]

Her father is Robert Muiño, a Cuban national. In the 1980s, he came to Odesa on an exchange and stayed in Ukraine. Her mother is Ukrainian. Tanu has three brothers and a sister. Until the age of six, Tanu lived in Havana.[2]

Awards and nominations[edit]

The record holder for the number of awards in the category "Best Video Clip" of the annual Ukrainian YUNA award (won three years in a row: in 2016,[12] 2017[13] and 2018[14]). Winner in the category "Music Video Maker of the Year" according to the M1 Music Awards (2018).


In 2021, she won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction along with Lil Nas X for the music video of "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)".[15] In 2022, her work directing the music video for Harry Styles' song "As it Was" was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction.[16]