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Portrait of Nico

Nico

Christa Päffgen, German singer, fashion model, actress

  • 1938 to 1988
  • from Köln
  • On fono: 44 songs
  • 19 collaborators
  • 3 sources

The people around them

Who works with them most. Tap a person to see everything they made.

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Who makes their records

People credited as writer, producer, engineer or mixer on their songs.

Worth knowing

Counted from cited credits on fono.

  • Tom Wilson produced 6 of Nico’s top 10 songs

  • John Cale is Nico’s most frequent collaborator, credited on 29 songs

  • Nico recorded most at Sound Techniques (7 songs)

  • Nico wrote or co-wrote 34 of 44 songs on fono (77%)

  • Credited songs by Nico span 25 years, 1966 to 1991 (44 songs)

Top songs

  1. From The Velvet Underground & Nico

    1. 1

      I’ll Be Your Mirror

      1966

    2. 2

      All Tomorrow’s Parties

      1967

    3. 3

      Femme Fatale

      1966

    4. 4

      Sunday Morning

      1966

  2. From Chelsea Girl

    1. 5

      Chelsea Girls

      1967

    2. 6

      Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams

      1967

    3. 7

      It Was a Pleasure Then

      1967

    4. 8

      Little Sister

      1967

    5. 9

      The Fairest of the Seasons

      1967

  3. 10

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Where the songs were made

Releases

  1. 1986

  2. 1981

  3. 1974

  4. 1970

  5. 1968

  6. 1967

Member of

Elsewhere

Sources (3)

Every fact on this page comes from one of these sources.

  1. 1MusicBrainz Nico is a member of The Velvet Underground

    Nico is a member of The Velvet Underground

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  2. 2MusicBrainz Nico is from Köln

    Nico is from Köln

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  3. 3Wikidata The genre of Nico is rock

    The genre of Nico is rock

    Wikidata

    CC0 1.0 UniversalRetrieved Oct 16, 2026