Nick Valensi is best known as lead guitarist for one of the biggest rock bands of the last decade, The Strokes. Raised in New York City, Valensi has been playing guitar since an early age and in 2005, Epiphone even created a line of signatures guitar after him. Besides his work with The Strokes, Val ...ensi has also collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Regina Spektor, Sia, and Devandra Banhart. Over the last several years Valensi has been working on his own music, some of which can now be heard exclusively at Soundtrapper.