He started his career with the stage name of Buddy, recording 59 singles, mainly cover songs, between 1965 and 1968.

[1][2] In 1968, Nazzaro started to perform with his real name and he took part at the music contest Un disco per l'estate with the song "Solo noi".

[1] In 1970, he won the Festival di Napoli with the song "Me chiamme ammore".

Nazzaro and Ovcina eventually divorced, but after years of estrangement, they reestablished their relationship in 2016.

Ovcina remarried Nazzaro just hours before his death in a Roman hospital from lung cancer, on 27 July 2021.