Sasa Cano was born in Croatia and studied in the Sarajevo Music Academy in the class of Professor Blanka Kurpjel – Danon. His debut in role was Zuniga in Bizet's Carmen in the National Theatre in Sarajevo. He graduated in 1991 from the class of Professor Borislav Alexandrov. One year later he became a soloist with Croatian National Theatre in Osijek, and in 1995 with Slovenian National Theater in Ljubljana.

As one of the leading soloists on Ljubljana's opera stage he has performed much of the bass repertoire, including Zaccharia (Nabucco), Ferrando (Il Trovatore), Count Walter (Louisa Miller), Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar), Rocco (Fidelio), Marcel (Huguenots), Kezal (The Bartered Bride), Don Pasquale, Waterman (Rusalka), and King Rene (Iolanta).

In January, 2005, he performed the role of Gottfried in the world première of Offenbach's Die Rheinnixen, as a guest in Winterthur (Switzerland), Bolzano (Italy) and St. Pölten (Austria). He took the parts of the King of Clubs and cook-woman (The love for Three Oranges), Kan Kontschak (Prince Igor), Leporello (Don Giovanni) and many other roles. On November 2008 he was Balthazar (La favorite) on concert performance in Cadogan Hall in London.

He has sung as a guest in Rijeka, Zagreb, Osijek, Split, Pula, Varaždin (Croatia), Novi Sad (Serbia), Neuheim (Switzerland), Pecs and Baja (Hungary), London (UK).

His concert repertoire includes Verdi’s Requiem with the RTV Symphony Orchestra of Slovenia; Rossini’s Stabat mater; Dvorak’s Stabat mater; and many recitals of romantic music by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Schubert and Grieg.