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, which was founded in 2013. Casablancas has also led a solo career during the Strokes\' hiatus, releasing the album Phrazes for the Young on November 3, 2009. Over the years, Casablancas has also collaborated with several other artists on their work, examples being The Lonely Island\'s 2009 album Incredibad and Daft Punk\'s 2013 album Random Access Memories.\n', '

Casablancas founded the independent record label Cult Records in 2009. Initially used as an imprint for Casablancas\' solo releases, Cult later became a standalone label, and in June 2014 entered a label services agreement with Kobalt.\n', '

Casablancas was born in New York City to business mogul John Casablancas, the founder of Elite Model Management, and Jeanette Christiansen, a Danish former model and Miss Denmark (1965). When Casablancas was eight, his parents divorced. He once stated that he wanted to be closer to his father, and this, "translated into teenage rebelliousness." His mother subsequently married painter Sam Adoquei. Adoquei helped shape Casablancas\' early musical taste by exposing him to music such as The Doors, which was markedly different from the mostly Phil Collins-influenced music he listened to as a child.\n', '

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