Julian Casablancas Julian Casablancas Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23, 1978) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of the American rock bands The Strokes (founded in 1998) and The Voidz, founded in 2013. In the midst of The Strokes' hiatus between the release of their third and fourth albums, Casablancas embarked on his solo career, during which the album "Phrazes for the Young" was released in November 2009, as well as a multitude of collaborations with several other artists on their work—examples are The Lonely Island's 2009 album "Incredibad" and Daft
The Strokes number two on "Rolling Stone"s 100 Best Albums of the '00s, 199 on "Rolling Stone"s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and number four in the "NME" top 500 albums of all time. Lead singer-songwriter Julian Casablancas, guitarist Nick Valensi, and drummer Fab Moretti started playing together while attending Dwight School in Manhattan. Bassist Nikolai Fraiture befriended Casablancas while the two attended the Lycée Français de New York. At age 13, Casablancas was sent to Le Rosey, a boarding school in Switzerland, to improve his academic performance. Casablancas met guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. in Switzerland. Later, when Hammond came to