Nico became a famous model and appeared in various films (including Fellini's classic La Dolce Vita), but it was a pop single she cut with the help of Jimmy Page that caught Velvets' than producer Andy Warhol's attention. Soon Warhol talked a than hesitant frontman Lou Reed into writing songs for Nicos' strange baroque voice which developed into some of the greatest rock songs ever written.

The Velvet Underground and Nico recorded in 1966 became one of the most influential rock albums of all time and turned Nico into an underground Icon.

Nico's depressing solo music mirrored a strange personality chronicled in the great documentary NICO ICON. Nico viewed her beauty as a curse and soon the heroin addicted artist began dyeing her hair black and letting her teeth rot out. Soon the once top fashion model became a horrifying "freak" act. Nico got her own son hooked on heroin and when he became comatose from an overdose, Nico left the hospital to get recording equipment to tape the odd sounds emitting from the hospital machines.