Chris Núñez is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 tattoo artist

Tattoo artist

A tattoo artist is an individual who applies permanent decorative tattoos, often in an established business called a tattoo shop, tattoo studio or tattoo parlour...

. He is the co-owner of Love Hate Tattoos, a tattoo shop located in Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...

 and the subject of the TLC

TLC (TV channel)

TLC is an American cable TV specialty channel which initially focused on educational content. Since 1991 TLC has been owned by Discovery Communications, the same company that operates the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and The Science Channel, as well as other learning-themed networks...

 reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 program Miami Ink

Miami Ink

Miami Ink is an American reality show on TLC that follows the events that took place at a tattoo shop in Miami Beach, Florida. The show premiered in July 2005 and has finished broadcasting its fourth season...

.

Núñez, who is of Cuban origin

Cuban American

A Cuban American is a United States citizen who traces his or her "national origin" to Cuba. Cuban Americans are also considered native born Americans with Cuban parents or Cuban-born persons who were raised and educated in US...

, received his first tattoo at age 16. The tattoo is now, however, "lost under a sea of new ones", as he revealed during Inks first season. Núñez attended Chaminade Madonna Prep in Hollywood, Florida

Hollywood, Florida

-Demographics:As of 2000, there were 59,673 households out of which 24.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.5% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.2% were non-families. 34.4% of all households were made up of...

. He has also lived in Brazil

Brazil

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 and Ecuador

Ecuador

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, and speaks fluent Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

. In addition to his career as a tattoo artist and a television personality, Núñez co-owns DeVille USA, a Miami-based clothing design company, and Miami nightclub Love Hate Lounge. His co-owner in both these ventures is Miami Ink co-star Ami James.

External links

• DeVille USA DeVille USA Clothing Website
• Biography at TLC Miami Ink Web site.
• IMDB biography.
• Chris Nunez on Love Hate Tattoos