Early vocal for Nico
Nico played the lead role in Jacques Poitrenaud’s 1963 Strip-Tease (aka Sweet Skin and Lady Strip Tease). Billed as "Krista Nico", she stars as German dancer Ariane, a character described by Poitrenaud as "a stripper lost in the nocturnal world." Serge Gainsbourg, who scored Strip-Tease (and makes an uncredited appearance sharing a piano with Big Joe Turner), recorded a demo of the title song with Nico in 1962, her earliest surviving recording. Juliette Greco’s voice was used on the finished version.
