Nico Wayne Toussaint, is born on august 1973 in Toulon, (France) and plays harmonica since the age of 18. He ran into the blues when he was 15, through the Muddy Waters' record "Hard Again" featuring James Cotton on harp. Since then, the wildness high energy and raw sound of James Cotton have been his musical credo.

Vent du Sud (Southern Wind) is the name of the first band founded when he was 20 with his father on piano. For three years, the two of them plus some other musicians added to the band over the years, toured all around the south west of France. In 1996 Nico go on his own with a band under his own name Nico and Friends , doing straight Chicago Blues..

The middle name, Wayne , comes from his American godfather, Wayne Ready, former resident of Minneapolis , Minnesota. On each one of those visits to the US , he spent a lot of time watching and listening to blues concerts, between Minneapolis , New Orleans and Chicago . Also on many occasions, he got to sit in with great musicians such as Jimmy Johnson, R.J. Mischo, Billy Branch, Luther Allison, Eddy C. Campbell, Cash Mc Call, Willy Kent to name a few. It happened to him at a young age, an age where those experiences have great impact on my musical education. In 1997, Nico record in Minneapolis his first cd C'est si Bon backed up by local musicians.

The collaboration with Dixiefrog Records goes back to 1998 with the album My Kind of Blues , recorded in one night in Minneapolis , with musicians from R.J Mischo¹s band. Nico Wayne Toussaint recorded three other cd’s on Dixiefrog before releasing in 2004 a double live album Transatlantic Live recorded in France and in the US , acclamed by both the audience and critics.

Since 1998, performing is his job, playing over 100 gigs a year all over the country but also in Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Macedonia, Italy and other parts of the wolrd (Canada, USA, Ecuador, Syria).