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Nikolai Fraiture born November 13, 1978 in New York City) is the bassist for the New York City-based band The Strokes. He is French-Russian and speaks fluent French. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a security guard. He and five other relatives all lived in a two-bedroom apartment. Fraiture also has a sister named Elizabeth, who is 13 years younger than he is and an elder brother called Pierre. is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Deon Rexroat of Anberlin. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For other uses, see Stroke (disambiguation). ...

Nikolai Fraiture

He attended kindergarten and elementary school with best friend and future bandmate Julian Casablancas. He later went to Lycée Français De New York for high school. Image File history File links Miscmags_42. ... Image File history File links Miscmags_42. ... Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23, 1978) is the vocalist and songwriter of the band The Strokes. ... The Lycée Français de New York is a bilingual school based in Manhattan, New York which follows the French curriculum of study and allows students to study for the French general Baccalauréat, the international option of the French Baccalaureate, and the American High School Diploma. ...

Although Fraiture had been interested in music since childhood, he did not begin playing bass until he was 19. His grandfather had bought him a bass guitar as a graduation gift but Fraiture gave it to Casablancas. It was not until one year later, when he contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever at a New Orleans youth hostel, that he picked it up and began to play seriously. At the time, he was attending Hunter College with future bandmate Nick Valensi, who wrote an article about Fraiture's coping with the illness in the school newspaper. Shortly afterwards, he joined his friends Casablancas, Valensi, and Fabrizio Moretti in forming a band. He met Albert Hammond, Jr. at later rehearsals. Binomial name Wolbach, 1919 Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the most severe and most frequently reported rickettsial illness in the United States, and has been diagnosed throughout the Americas. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... Youth hostel in Rome. ... See also: Hunter College High School Hunter College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as simply Hunter College) is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), located on Manhattans Upper East Side. ... Nick Valensi (born Nicholas Valensi, January 16, 1981, in New York) is a guitarist for the New York based rock band, The Strokes. ... Fabrizio Moretti (nicknamed Fab) is the drummer in the American band The Strokes. ... Albert Hammond, Jr. ...

Fraiture is married to an Englishwoman named Ilona, with whom he has one daughter, Elysia, born in the summer of 2004. Of all the Strokes, he is often considered the most soft-spoken. He resides in New York and is often seen cycling around the area.

Fraiture plays a Fender Jazz Bass (the same model his grandfather bought him) and a Rickenbacker. Lately he has also been seen playing a Fender Precision Bass and a Music Man StingRay The Jazz Bass (or J-Bass) was the second model of electric bass guitar created by Leo Fender. ... Rickenbacker 330JG Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker (pronounced ) [1]), is an electric guitar manufacturer, notable for having invented the first electric guitar during the 1930s. ... The Fender Precision Bass, known as P-bass for short, is the first model of the electric bass designed by Clarence Leonidas Fender and brought to market in 1951. ... Music Man StingRay is an electric bass guitar by Music Man, introduced in 1976. ...

Trivia

• Once when he was very young, Fraiture was caught attempting to shoplift a Luke Skywalker doll from the Macy's department store where his father was employed.
• He cuts his own hair, until recently when he has been seen sporting a mohawk.
• He was the first member of the Strokes to stop smoking, which he did to help bandmate Fabrizio Moretti quit for family-related health reasons.
• He is 6' 2".
• Has lyme disease.^[1]

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References

1. ^ Individual Biographies: Nikolai Fraiture. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.