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Rivers Cuomo is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on June 13, 1970 in Manhattan, New York, United States. Vocalist most well-known as the leader singer of alternative rock band Weezer.
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Rivers Cuomo (/ˈ k w oʊ m oʊ / KWOH -moh; born June 13, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
Rivers Cuomo was born in Manhattan to parents of Italian and German-English descent. Accounts differ as to the origin of his name. According to one account, Cuomo’s mother Beverly Shoenberger named him Rivers either because he was born between East and Hudson rivers in Manhattan or because she could hear a river outside her hospital window. However, his father, Frank Cuomo, a musician who played drums on the 1971 album Odyssey of Iska by jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, claims Cuomo was named after three prominent soccer players.
On June 18, 2006, he married Kyoko Ito. He and Ito had a son, Leo, and a girl, Mia.
Name | Rivers Cuomo |
First Name | Rivers |
Last Name | Cuomo |
Occupation | Rock Singer |
Birthday | June 13 |
Birth Year | 1970 |
Place of Birth | Manhattan |
Home Town | New York |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Gemini |
Full/Birth Name | |
Father | Not Available |
Mother | Not Available |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Kyoko Ito |
Children(s) | Mia Cuomo, Leo Cuomo |
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In 1980, Yogaville relocated to Virginia. The Kitts family opted to stay in Connecticut and moved to the Storrs Mansfield area. During this time, Cuomo attended Mansfield Middle School and E.O. Smith High School. Rivers was a member of the high school choir and performed in a school production of Grease. He also changed his name to Peter Kitts; after graduating, Cuomo reverted to his original name.
Rivers Cuomo is one of the richest Rock Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rivers Cuomo's net worth $35 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He attended Harvard University, where he received a degree as an English teacher. In 1992, he founded Weezer.
Avant Garde was one of his first projects.
On tour with Weezer following the Blue Album, Cuomo listened extensively to the operas Aida (1871) and Madama Butterfly (1904), the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), and the musical Les Misérables (1980), which influenced the composition of Pinkerton and the unreleased Songs from the Black Hole.
Net Worth | $35 Million |
Salary | Under Review |
Source of Income | Rock Singer |
Cars | Not Available |
House | Living in own house. |
One of Cuomo’s earliest music projects was the glam metal band Avant Garde. In 1989, after playing several shows in Connecticut, Avant Garde moved to Los Angeles and changed their name to Zoom, but broke up in 1990. In 1990 and 1991, while Cuomo was writing material for what became Weezer’s debut album, he was a roadie for the band King Size and worked at Tower Records, where he listened to “basically everything that was released at that time … I was exposed to a ton of music I otherwise never would have heard.”
Raised in 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. Burnt out after the success of Weezer’s self-titled debut album, Cuomo enrolled at Harvard University but dropped out to record Weezer’s second album, Pinkerton (1996); he re-enrolled and graduated in 2008. Though Pinkerton is now frequently cited among the best albums of the 1990s and has been certified platinum, it was initially a commercial and critical failure, pushing Cuomo’s songwriting toward pop music.
Rivers Cuomo height 5 ft 6 in Rivers weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Height | 5 ft 6 in |
Weight | Not Known |
Body Measurements | Under Review |
Eye Color | Not Available |
Hair Color | Not Available |
Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Rivers was raised in Rochester, New York at the Rochester Zen Center, until his father left the family in 1975. His mother relocated the family to Yogaville, an ashram in Pomfret, Connecticut. Cuomo attended the Pomfret Community School, and his mother married Stephen Kitts.
At the end of 1995, Cuomo enrolled in Harvard University to study classical composition. He told The New York Times: “The only time I could write songs was when my frozen dinner was in the microwave. The rest of the time I was doing homework.” He auditioned for the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum chorus but was not selected. He became introverted and grew a beard, and wrote in his diaries how students wearing Weezer T-shirts did not recognize him.
According to our records, Rivers Cuomo married to Kyoko Ito . As of December 1, 2023, Rivers Cuomo’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Rivers Cuomo. You may help us to build the dating records for Rivers Cuomo!Cuomo formed Weezer in 1992 with drummer Patrick Wilson, bassist Matt Sharp and guitarist Jason Cropper. “Weezer” was the nickname given to Cuomo by his father when he was a toddler. Weezer signed with DGC, a subsidiary of Geffen Records, on June 25, 1993, and released their self-titled debut album, also known as the Blue Album, in May 1994. Cropper left the band during the album recording and was replaced by Brian Bell. The album was certified platinum on January 1, 1995, with sales of over one million. Despite his success, Cuomo tired of the monotony and loneliness of touring and developed a “huge inferiority complex” about rock music, saying: “I thought my songs were really simplistic and silly, and I wanted to write complex, intense, beautiful music.”
Rivers Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rivers Cuomo celebrates birthday on June 13 of every year.
In March 1995, Cuomo had extensive surgery to extend his left leg, which was 44mm shorter than the right. This involved the surgical breaking of the leg bone, followed by months of wearing a steel brace and painful physiotherapy sessions. The procedure affected his songwriting, as he would spend long periods hospitalized under the influence of painkillers.
Birth name | Rivers Cuomo |
Born | June 13, 1970 (age 51) New York City, U.S. |
Origin | Connecticut, Los Angeles |
Occupation(s) | Musician, Songwriter, Vocalist, Guitarist |
Rivers Cuomo Graduated from Harvard University in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in English. Burnt out after the success of his band Weezer, Cuomo decided to relax by enrolling himself into one of the most prestigious schools in the country.
Rivers Cuomo applied for Harvard University while visiting the campus during a tour stop in Cambridge during Weezer’s tour for The Blue Album. He was accepted as a second-semester sophomore and attended semesters in fall 1995, spring 1996, spring 1997, fall 2004 and spring 2006.
Rivers Cuomo named the band Weezer because that was a nickname given to him by kids in school who teased him for having asthma. 2. Cuomo’s dad Frank Cuomo was a drummer in the ’60s, and played on jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s 1970 album Odyssey of Iska.
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