1. Nikolai Philippe Fraiture was born on November 13,1978 and is an American musician best known as the bassist of the rock band The Strokes.
11 Facts About Nikolai Fraiture
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Nikolai Fraiture was born in New York City to a French-Russian mother and French father.
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Nikolai Fraiture was raised with his older brother Pierre and younger sister Elizabeth in the Yorkville neighborhood of the Upper East Side.
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Nikolai Fraiture met future bandmate Julian Casablancas at the age of six while attending the Friends School and Lycee Francais de New York, from which he graduated in 1997.
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Nikolai Fraiture received his first bass at 16 when his grandfather gave it to him as a graduation present, but Nikolai Fraiture gave it away to Casablancas and did not resume playing until two years later.
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Nikolai Fraiture took up bass when he was around 18 and started playing in a band with childhood friend Julian Casablancas, guitarist Nick Valensi, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti.
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Nikolai Fraiture started his side project, Nickel Eye, during the hiatus after First Impressions of Earth.
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Nikolai Fraiture enlisted the help of South, a UK band introduced to him by a friend, as his backing band.
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In 2016, Nikolai Fraiture started a new band, Summer Moon with Jane's Addiction's Stephen Perkins, Uh Huh Her's Camila Grey, and The Airborne Toxic Event's Noah Harmon, with Nikolai Fraiture providing vocals and bass for the group.
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In 2007, Nikolai Fraiture composed the music and starred in the movie A Kind of Dream with wife Illy Nikolai Fraiture.
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Nikolai Fraiture is one-half of the performance art project Arts Elektra with his brother Pierre Nikolai Fraiture, a New York-based mixed medium artist.