A date & location of Nico's birth come disputed. Virtually all sources state October 16,1938, Cologne, Germany. Still, at least 2 more sources use put her birth date at March 15, 1943, in Budapest, Hungary.

Career
Modelling
Nico processed her early fame as a fashion model for various publications across a earth. As a lass she moved to Paris and met the renowned lensman Tobias, who christened her "Nico" fallowing his ex-boyfriend, movie maker Nico Papatakis. Nico worked for Vogue, Tempo, Vie Nuove, Mascotte Spettacolo, Camera, ELLE, and various more fashion magazines in the late 1950s. She was besides hired by Coco Chanel.

La Dolce Vita
When appearing inside many television commercials, Nico landed a bantam role inside Alberto Lattuada's La Tempesta (1958), and then appeared within Rudolph Maté's For the First Time with Mario Lanza later that year. Inside 1959, she was invited to the set of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and attracted the attention of the acclaimed director, world health organization promptly gave her the sizable role inside his film. By this instance, Nico got moved to New York to take acting classes using Lee Strasberg. When splitting her instance between New York and Paris, she landed the lead role inside Jacques Poitrenaud's Strip-Tease (1963). For that film, Nico recorded a title track, which was by Serge Gainsbourg but not released. When you took this time she got the boy, Ari (born 1962), with actor Alain Delon.

Early films with Warhol
Around 1964, Nico met The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones and recorded her first lone, "I'm Not Sayin'" for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label. Actor Ben Carruthers introduced her to Bob Dylan in Paris that summer; Dylan wrote the song all about her, "I'll Keep It With Mine" shortly later on. She began working sustaining Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey on their experimental films, including Chelsea Girls, The Closet, Sunset, and Imitation of Christ.

The Velvet Underground and Nico
When appearing in the Factory films of Warhol, Nico was introduced to The Velvet Underground, at that time a backing class action for Warhol's Exploding. Plastic. Inevitable., a multimedia performance featuring film, music, lights and dancers in a sort of total experience theatre. When Nico was brought into a Manufactory stack, she bit by bit began to functiin sustaining a Velvets & sang on little joe songs on The Velvet Underground and Nico, a foremost album either she or even the band got processed. Discharged within 1967, the album went in to be extremely influential & critically lauded in rock music circles. Nico experienced a short-transitory romanticist relationship by owning the Velvet Underground's independent singer & songster, Lou Reed, at this time, one of her many romances by having large musicians including fellow Velvet John Cale, Jim Morrison, Jackson Browne, Brian Jones and Tim Buckley.

Shortly fallowing a Exploding. Thin plastic. Inevitable. tour drew to the close in the spring of 1967, Nico and A Velvet Underground parted ways as a agent working class action. A accurate reasons for her departure own non been manufactured clear, though two Lou Reed & a Velvet's multi-instrumentalist John Cale played important area within various aspects of Nico's solo career. Above a course of the next twenty years she recorded a series of critically acclaimed albums, working sustaining the likes of Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera. Cale was particularly included inside Nico's music, producing little joe of her albums also when arranging & swimming various instruments on the recordings.

Solo
The Sixties
For her debut album, 1967's Chelsea Girl, Nico recorded songs by, among others, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Jackson Browne and Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison. Chelsea Girl is largely the traditional chamber-folk album in the vein of Leonard Cohen, complete with strings and flute arrangements superimposed by its producer. Nico was non completely satisfied by owning a finished album however got little say around production matters.

For her originative LP, The Marble Index, released within 1969, Nico wrote all the lyrics and music. John Cale produced a album, which he considered to become a number one rock album to entirely abandon conventional structures & instrumentation. For this album, Nico played & recorded upon the harmonium, which became her signature instrument for much of the rest of her career. the album combines authoritative elements using a European folk sound.

The Seventies
Cale too produced two 1970's Desertshore and 1973's The End. Nico continued to uses a reed organ in these albums, too when spare, avant-garde arrangements, and philosophical lyrics that conveyed images of isolation, power, masculine heroism, & grief affixed to want. This is mayhap better exemplified inside her song, "Valley of the Kings" from either A Prevent [http://smironne.free.fr/NICO/LYRICS/theend05.html]. Within 1974, she recorded the survive album June 1, 1974 with Brian Eno, Kevin Ayers, and John Cale. That seasin she as well sang on Ayers' album, A Confessions of Dr. Dream & More Stories. For virtually all of the remainder of the decade, Nico split her period between performing, making motion picture, & now and then camping by using her boy Ari (by actor Alain Delon, born 1962, later to get actor & lensman Christian Aaron Boulogne). The additional and more more demanding heroin habit became a urgent focus when a 1970s drew to a close; Nico's junkie esthetic has been easily documented by her biographers.

The Eighties
Nico recorded her next studio album, Drama of Exile, in 1981.[http://smironne.free.fr/NICO/drama.php] It was the departure from either her earliest operate by using John Cale & featured a mixture of rock & Middle Eastern arrangements. She recorded her final solo album, Camera Obscura, in 1985, a extremely experimental collection that implemented jazz instrumentation and featured Nico's version of the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart song, "My Funny Valentine". The material total of Nico's performances towards a prevent of her life were recorded & keep around been freed. Virtually all noteworthy one come 1982's Heroine, 1986's Behind the Iron Curtain, and her final concert, Fata Morgana, recorded on June 6, 1988.

Philippe Garrel
Between 1972 and 1979, Nico made septet films by using French director Philippe Garrel. She met Garrell within 1969 and contributed the song "The Falconer" to his film, Le Lit diamond state la Vierge. Shortly fallowing, she was swallow Garrel & became the central figure around his cinematic & household circles. Nico's number one acting appearance by owning Garrel occurred within his 1972 film, La Cicatrice Intérieure. Nico besides supplied a music for this film & collaborated closely by having a director. Her participation diminished by having late films, which involved a silent Jean Seberg biopic, Les Hautes Solitudes, released inside 1974.

Nico besides formed the 'farm partnership' by using John Cooper Clarke at this time.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/music/muze/index.pl?site=6music&action=biography&artist_id=6146&page=2]

"The End"
In July 18, 1988, Nico was injured when riding her bicycle near her home in Ibiza. She hit her head & was admitted to the local hospital. X-rays revealed severe bleeding in her brain, & she died many hours late.

Recordings

Year	Title
1967	The Velvet Underground and Nico
1968	Chelsea Girl
1969	The Marble Index
1970	Desertshore
1973	The End
1974	June 1, 1974
1981	Drama of Exile
1982	Do or Die: Nico in Europe (tour diary)
1985	Nico Live in Pécs
1985	Camera Obscura
1986	Live Heroes
1986	Behind the Iron Curtain
1987	Nico in Tokyo
1988	''Fata Morgana (Nico's Last Concert)
1989	Hanging Gardens
1994	Heroine
2002	Innocent & Vain

Books
Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon by Richard Witts, (Virgin Books: London, 1992). Up-tight: the Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga (Omnibus Press: London, 1995 reprint). Songs They Never Play On the Radio by James Young, (Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd: London, 1992).

Film
Nico Icon (1995), documentary directed by Susanne Ofteringer
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