Editing Nico (section)

===Early singing work===
In New York, Nico first met Greek filmmaker [[Nico Papatakis]], whose name she had adopted as her stage name several years earlier. The two lived together between 1959 and 1961.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2S0QQpQEog&ab_channel=demozeno | title=Niko on Nico: Papatakis recalls Velvet Underground singer | website=[[YouTube]] | date=16 April 2011}}</ref> After noticing her singing around the apartment, Papatakis asked her if she had ever considered a career in music and ended up enrolling her in her first singing lessons.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/solitary-anarchist | title='The Solitary Anarchist' &#124; Commonweal Magazine | date=18 December 2021}}</ref>

In 1965, Nico met [[the Rolling Stones]] guitarist [[Brian Jones]] and recorded her first single, "[[I'm Not Sayin']]", with the B-side "The Last Mile", produced by [[Jimmy Page]] for [[Andrew Loog Oldham]]'s [[Immediate Records|Immediate]] label. Actor [[Ben Carruthers]] introduced her to [[Bob Dylan]] in Paris that summer. In 1967, Nico recorded his song "[[I'll Keep It with Mine]]" for her first album, ''[[Chelsea Girl (album)|Chelsea Girl]]''.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography" />