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An Evening with

Rivers Cuomo

of the band Weezer

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alternative power pop punk





Rivers Cuomo

of the band Weezer

-from Los Angeles, CA

-Rivers Cuomo (pronounced /ˈkwoʊmoʊ/; born June 13, 1970) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Weezer.



In addition to fronting Weezer, Cuomo has also worked as a solo artist and a writer and featured artist on other artists’ records



Cuomo was born in a Manhattan hospital to parents of Italian and German/English descent and raised on an ashram run by the late yoga master Sri Swami Satchidananda in Pomfret, Connecticut. His mother, Beverly, was inspired to name her son “Rivers” because he was born between the East and Hudson rivers in Manhattan. Her appreciation of the sound of running water further reinforced her desire for this name. His father, Frank Cuomo, was a musician who played drums on the album Odyssey of Iska by jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter.



During his early childhood Cuomo attended a private school on the ashram where his parents raised him and his brother Leaves. The family moved to nearby Storrs, Connecticut when the ashram (known as Yogaville) was relocated to a plot of land along the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Cuomo attended E.O. Smith High School in Storrs, Connecticut under the name Peter Kitts, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Valley College, Santa Monica College, and Harvard University, where he graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In high school, Cuomo played the role of Johnny Casino in the stage production of Grease.



After a series of musical projects in Los Angeles, Cuomo formed Weezer on February 14, 1992, as a vocalist and guitarist with drummer Patrick Wilson on drums, Matt Sharp on bass, and Jason Cropper who at first played exclusively on acoustic guitar. Weezer signed with DGC, a subsidiary of Geffen Records, on June 25, 1993. They began recording Weezer (also known as The Blue Album) in August 1993 at Electric Lady Studios in New York with producer Ric Ocasek. “Weezer” was what Cuomo’s father sometimes called him as a toddler, after the Little Rascals character who he said was “the cool one.”



Cuomo is currently in the process of recording a Japanese album with Scott Murphy of Allister.



Cuomo is featured on the new Simple Plan song “Can’t Keep My Hands Off You”Rivers Cuomo (pronounced /ˈkwoʊmoʊ/; born June 13, 1970) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Weezer.



In addition to fronting Weezer, Cuomo has also worked as a solo artist and a writer and featured artist on other artists’ records.











