Krista Nico dans un film de Jacques Poitrenaud

Before Christina Aguilera, there was Krista Nico (who later dropped the "Krista"). Born Christa Päffgen, 16 October 1938 -- 18 July 1988), Krista Nico was a German singer, composer, fashion model, actress, and Warhol Superstar. She is known for both her vocal collaboration on The Velvet Underground's debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, and her work as a solo artist from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. She also had roles in several films, including a cameo in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls (1966), as herself. She was related to Hermann Päffgen, who founded the Päffgen brewery in 1883 in Cologne. Her adopted name, 'Nico', which she used for most of her life, was given to her by photographer Herbert Tobias,[2] who was photographing her on a modeling job. He named her this after his ex-boyfriend, filmmaker Nikos Papatakis. She soon moved to Paris and began working for Vogue, Tempo, Vie Nuove, Mascotte Spettacolo, Camera, Elle, and other fashion magazines. She was briefly hired by Coco Chanel[citation needed]. In addition to her native German, she spoke four languages: English, Italian, Spanish, and French. In 1959 she was invited to the set of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, where she attracted the attention of the acclaimed director, who gave her a minor role in the film as herself. By this time, she had moved to New York to take acting classes with Lee Strasberg.

She appears as the cover model on jazz pianist Bill Evans' 1962 album, Moon Beams. After splitting her time between New York and Paris, she got the lead role in Jacques Poitrenaud's Strip-Tease (1963). She recorded the title track, which was written by Serge Gainsbourg but not released until 2001, when it was included in the compilation Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg. [Oddly, the main title credits indicate that the singer was Juliette Greco.] These clips also feature jazz great Big Joe Turner. [An even greater jazz great, Ornette Coleman, later taugh Nico how to play the harmonium.]

Nico died in July 1988, as a result of injuries sustained in a bicycling accident.

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• Krista
• Nico
• Jacques Poitrenaud
• Warhol
• Velvet Underground
• La Dolce Vita
• Joe Turner
• Serge Gainsbourg

[simonsaintgilles]

Is that John Cale at 1:50?

[mondopete1]

@puresmokey9

will be released in the US on DVD, in restored version in May 2011. By Mondo Macabro

[puresmokey9]

Hi, do you know how to get the entire movie?