Rivers Cuomo

Rivers Cuomo is a singer, musician and songwriter from New York City. While in college he worked at Tower Records and was writing music. In 1992, Cuomo formed the group Weezer with Patrick Wilson, Matt Sharp and Jason Cropper. The group released their debut album in 1993. By January of 1995, the album had reached platinum status. Later that same year, Cuomo enrolled in Harvard University and attended, but dropped out prior to graduating. Weezer's second album, "Pinkerton" was released in 1996. In 1997, Cuomo also performed with the band Homie, in Boston. Cuomo changed his songwriting approach and began writing less personal lyrics. Cuomo took additional classes at Harvard and graduated in 2006. Later that year, the Weezer tour bus crashed and they canceled the rest of the tour, but returned to the stage in 2010. Cuomo has music featured in several films such as "Marmaduke" (2010), "Pitch Perfect" (2012), "Office Christmas Party" (2016), "Blindspotting" (2018) and "Bill & Ted Face the Music" (2020).