Meet Pino, the R&B artist blending Filipino charm with Canada’s sonic elements

Meet Pino, the R&B artist blending Filipino charm with Canada’s sonic elements

Many years ago, in the Canadian town of Ajax, there was a young boy who was just beginning to discover his penchant for sound.  The boy’s parents are from the Philippines — an inherently music-loving country — so whether or not he had a choice, music quite literally ran in his veins, thanks to the endless karaoke sessions he’d join at home. While tinkering with his father’s extensive R&B CD collection and his brother’s hip-hop CD collection laid…