Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York.

The German-born model and singer Nico is certainly of a time. Her voice hearkens to an era when music was simply different—and candidly, not so overproduced. She is part Bob Dylan and part Lou Reed.

“More than eighty reels of film made up Warhol’s 1967 epic double-screen, twenty-five-hour film **** (FOUR STARS). Reel 20 – “Nico Music” – features the Velvet Underground’s chanteuse Nico improvising ...

One can only imagine what it was like hearing Nico’s sophomore album, The Marble Index, in 1968, given how different it was, and still is, from anything else in the “pop” music landscape. It also ...