Person · Male

Rivers Cuomo

US singer, guitarist & songwriter of Weezer

From: Manhattan, United States
Since: 1970–present
Rating: ★ 5 (1 votes)
Releases: 42

rock
alternative rock
power pop
singer-songwriter
slacker rock

About

Rivers Cuomo ( KWOH-moh; born June 13, 1970) is an American musician and the lead vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and founder of the rock band Weezer. He was born in New York City and raised in several Buddhist communities around the Northeastern United States until the age of five, when his family settled in Pomfret, Connecticut. Cuomo played in several bands in Connecticut and California before forming Weezer in 1992, going on to release 20 studio albums with the band.

After the success of Weezer's debut, the Blue Album (1994), Cuomo enrolled at Harvard University, but dropped out after recording Weezer's second album, Pinkerton (1996). He re-enrolled and graduated in 2006. Though Pinkerton is now frequently cited among the best albums of the 1990s and has been certified platinum, it was initially a critical and commercial failure, pushing Cuomo's songwriting toward pop music for Weezer's next album, the Green Album (2001).
Cuomo has released several compilations of demos, including Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2007) and Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2008), and has released thousands of home recordings on his website. He has collaborated with artists and bands including Hayley Williams, B.O.B., AJR, Todd Rundgren and Panic! at the Disco. With the American songwriter Scott Murphy, Cuomo has released two Japanese-language albums as Scott & Rivers.

From Rivers Cuomo on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.