Omar Banos (born June 26, 1998), better known by his stage name CUCO, is a Mexican-American singer-songwriter from Hawthorne, California.
He started playing guitar at 8 and writing songs at 11, but he didn’t actually start recording until he was 15. Around 2014 and 2015, he used the moniker Heavy Trip and used to write psychedelic music. Then he started writing more pop stuff and decided to change his name to CUCO.
His music can be described as "bedroom pop" or "alternative dream pop", with synths, 808s and "washed out analog sounds". His main musical influences are Tame Impala, Tyler, The Creator and Ariel Pink, but also 60s psychedelic rock, Chet Baker, Jedi Mind Tricks, old Chicano Rap and Yes.