Hawthorne, CA based Cuco got major props at SXSW this year. After a stint at our home base of Santa Monica College, he began to pursue music in earnest. The moniker of 19-year-old Omar Banos steers ...

The FADER's longstanding series GEN F profiles emerging artists to know now. Cuco, 19, the ascendant self-produced heartthrob, is the only child of immigrant parents from Mexico. As a kid he was ...

Cuco is a singer and songwriter who became popular for his smooth mix of pop, R&B, and indie sounds. He started sharing music on SoundCloud when he was a teenager. People quickly loved his dreamy ...

It was only a few years ago that 21-year-old Los Angeles singer-songwriter/producer Omar Banos, aka Cuco, began messing around with music software after school. He quickly hit on an original and ...

The 21-year-old bedroom-pop artist’s major-label debut displays shaggy charm and an eclecticism that’s still confined to the more pleasant parts of the color wheel. Nowhere, really. Cuco’s unadorned ...

Family Matters features conversations with artists and their relatives about the bonds that tie them together. From the beginning, Omar Banos’ success has been shared by his family. The ...