My Drive Thru My Drive Thru "My Drive Thru" is a collaborative single by The Strokes lead vocalist Julian Casablancas, American singer-songwriter Santigold, and The Neptunes producer and N.E.R.D member Pharrell Williams. The song was created for Converse's centennial and was released in June 2008. Various media outlets reported in May 2008 that Casablancas, Santigold (Santi White) and Williams had teamed up to create the song for Converse's centennial "Three Artists, One Song" campaign. Cornerstone, a media and marketing agency, put Santigold, Casablancas and Williams together on the track for Converse. White told Gigwise.com that Casablancas and White recorded "My Drive Thru" separately,
John Casablancas John Casablancas John Casablancas (December 12, 1942 – July 20, 2013) was an American modeling agent and scout who founded Elite Model Management in 1972. Casablancas was born in Manhattan, New York City, on December 12, 1942, the youngest of three children of Fernando and Antonia Casablancas, and grandson of Spanish textile machinery inventor Fernando Casablancas Planell. His parents had fled to the United States to escape the Spanish Civil War during the 1930s. Casablancas founded the Elite Model Management, a modeling agency, in 1972 in Paris, France. Casablancas is credited for developing the concept of supermodel in the popular