Nicholas Valensi is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his role as lead and rhythm guitarist in The Strokes. In 2013, he founded the band CRX, for which he acts as singer, songwriter, and lead and. rhythm guitarist. His debut album, New Skin, was released in 2016, and was followed by the 2019 album Peek.
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Nicholas Valensi is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his role as lead and rhythm guitarist in the American rock band The Strokes. He has also worked as a songwriter and session guitarist with various artists, including Sia, Regina Spektor and Kate Pierson. In 2013, he founded the band CRX, for which he acts as singer, songwriter, and lead and. rhythm guitarist. His debut album, New Skin, was released in 2016, and was followed by the 2019 album Peek. He was born in New York City, to a Tunisian father and a French mother, Danielle. Both of his parents immigrated to the U.S. as young adults, his mother from Southern France and his father as part of the Tunisian diaspora. His father died when Nick was nine, and he began learning guitar at the age of five, following an impromptu strum on one of his father’s guitars.
The band released The Modern Age EP in 2001 under Rough Trade Records and was signed for a five-album record deal by RCA Records. In the late 1990s, he was part of an informal band with vocalist Julian Casablancas and drummer Fabrizio Moretti and the three formed a band. He appears in the video for Sia’s “No One’s Better Than You” and on the 2007 album Thunder Canyon. He also sang and played guitar for Devendra Banhart’s song “Shabom Shalom” on the album Down Down Rolls Down the Road. His first notable credits so far were playing guitar for Regina SpeKtor’s song ‘Better,Better, which was released on her 2006 album Begin to Hope.
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