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Rivers Cuomo
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Rivers Cuomo is an American guitarist, singer, and composer born in Manhattan in 1970. He is a member of the band Weezer and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His musical work spans the power pop and alternative rock genres. He has been active since 1985 and is represented by the record label Geffen Records and the copyright organization Broadcast Music, Inc.
Cuomo was educated at Harvard University, Berklee College of Music, and Musicians Institute. He speaks English and Japanese. His instruments include the guitar, voice, and keyboard instrument. He is male and has two children.
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Manhattan, New York, USA
Rivers Cuomo is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer. Raised on an ashram in Connecticut until age 10, Cuomo moved to Los Angeles at 18, where he played in several rock bands before forming Weezer in 1992.
Known for
- Weezer's Voyage to the Blue Planet: The Concert Film — Self - Guitar/Vocals / Self (Archive Footage)2024
- Weezer: The Blue Album LIVE: Spotify THIRTY2024
- John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A. — Self - Music Performance2024
- Family Switch — Lake2023
- Weezer: OK Human Live with the L.A. Philharmonic + Y.O.L.A. — Self - Guitar/Vocals2021
- Weezer - Rock in Rio — Himself2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self2019
- Spell — Dr. Haskell2018
- American Idol — Self2018
- Carpool Karaoke: The Series — Self2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1970
Discography
- Monterey Jack1993
- Unchained Melody2004
- Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo2007
- Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo2008
- Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints2008
- Alone III: The Pinkerton Years2011
- Some Children See Him2014
- Medicine for Melancholy2018
- Two Broken Hearts2018
- Backflip2019
Member of
- Avant Garde1985–1989
- Weezersince 1992
- Weezersince 1992
- Weezersince 1992
- Scott & Riverssince 2009
- 60 Wrong Sausages
- Homie
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 266,638
- Total plays
- 4,705,051
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Rivers Cuomo (born June 13, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Weezer. He has also released works under his own name, and has contributed to numerous songs by other artists. Rivers Cuomo was born on June 13, 1970 in Manhattan to father Frank Cuomo and mother Beverly Shoenberger. His mother claims he was named "Rivers" because she first heard the sound of a river outside her hospital window after Rive
Key facts
- Also known as
- Peter Kitts (1985–1987)
- Born
- ( 1970-06-13 ) June 13, 1970 (age 55) , New York City, U.S.
- Genres
- Alternative rock power pop pop rock pop-punk geek rock emo
- Occupations
- Singer musician songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar keyboards harmonica
- Years active
- 1985–present
- Member of
- Weezer Scott & Rivers
- Formerly of
- Homie
- Spouse
- Kyoko Ito ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 )
- Website
- riverscuomo .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Genre
- alternative rock
- Instrument
- keyboard instrument
- Record label
- Geffen Records
- Official website
- riverscuomo.com
- Image
- Rivers Cuomo Weezer Tons of Rock 2025-50.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
Show 7 more facts
- medical condition
- unequal leg length
- Commons category
- Rivers Cuomo
- date of birth
- 1970-06-13
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- social media followers
- 36700
- name in native language
- Rivers Cuomo
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
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Encyclopedic overview
Rivers Cuomo (/ˈkwoʊmoʊ/ KWOH-moh; born June 13, 1970) is an American musician and the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer. Cuomo was born in New York City and raised in several Buddhist communities around the Northeastern United States until the age of 5, when his family settled in Pomfret, Connecticut. He played in several bands in Connecticut and California before forming Weezer in 1992.
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). Weezer has released more than a dozen albums since.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rivers Cuomo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.