NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Nico on 15 December 2017. Nico has been played over 280 times on NTS, first on 18 February 2012. Nico's music has been featured on 257 episodes.

Nico (16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988) was a German model, actress, singer, and songwriter. She was born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany. Nico started a successful career as a model in Berlin and Paris, studied acting at Lee Strasberg's New York Actor Studio. She then became part of the Swinging London scene, and had a short relationship with The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones and she recorded her first record in London in 1965, the single I'm Not Saying/The Last Mile, produced by Jimmy Page, for Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham's label Immediate Records. Thanks to Jones she met Andy Warhol in New York City and became part of Warhol's Factory, and Warhol introduced her to the Rock band The Velvet Underground, with whom she recorded the album "The Velvet Underground & Nico", featuring the legendary banana cover designed by Andy Warhol. The album has been named by numerous publications as one of the top 100 albums of all time, and is often considered one of history's 10 most influential albums by critics.

Nico later recorded several solo albums, including the folksy Chelsea Girl in 1967, followed by original albums such as The Marble Index and Desertshore, which were much darker and avant garde in style. She released several more albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including The End…, but died in 1988 from a cerebral hemorrhage after falling from her bike in Ibiza, Spain. She is buried in Berlin, next to her mother.

Solo studio discography: 1967 - Chelsea Girl 1969 - The Marble Index 1970 - Desertshore 1974 - The End… 1981 - Drama of Exile 1985 - Camera Obscura

Live discography: 1974 - June 1, 1974 (with Kevin Ayers, John Cale, and Brian Eno) 1986 - Behind the Iron Curtain 1986 - Live Heroes 1986 - Nico in Tokyo 1989 - Hanging Gardens 1993 - Do or Die! 1994 - Heroine 1994 - Fata Morgana 1994 - Live in Pécs 1985 2000 - In Europe: Do or Die, Diary 1982 2001 - Janitor of Lunacy 2003 - 1972-01-29: Le Bataclan, Paris, France (with Lou Reed and John Cale) 2007 - All Tomorrow's Parties: Live