Wyatt van Cleef

Wyatt Andrew van Cleef is an American drummer and keyboardist/pianist and is a member of the alternative/indie band Curriculum since 2006. In 2013, van Cleef announced that he would be pursuing a solo career. His debut single, "Making Hate", will be released digitally only on February 18, 2013.

Early life
Wyatt Andrew van Cleef was born in San Francisco, California, United States on 6 March 1991 and was raised there for most of his early childhood. His father is Koenraad van Cleef, a well-known wealthy socialite who is the heir to a multi-million dollar fortune and known in the American tabloids for his overindulgent, lavish, and hedonistic "playboy" lifestyle and penchant for wild parties, drugs, and sex. His mother is Marianne van Cleef (nee Egger) who is married to Andreas van Cleef, the brother of Koenraad. When Andreas was away on business, Marianne and Koenraad had an affair, producing Wyatt being born out of wedlock of his mother's and uncle's marriage. Feeling guilty that he betrayed his brother, Koenraad named van Cleef's middle (Andrew) after Andreas. Despite the affair, Marianne and Andreas continue to be happily married.

Koenraad has fifteen children by thirteen different women and primarily raised all of them including van Cleef. van Cleef is his father's second youngest child and his youngest brother, Hilton, was born two months after him in May 1991. He spent most of his childhood in San Francisco. When he was eleven, his father moved the family to suburban Connecticut to be near the New York City tri-state area and would attend school in New York City. Though primarily raised by his father, he still maintains a good relationship with his mother and uncle and their three children (his three-fourths siblings).

While growing up, Wyatt took drum, piano, keyboard, and rapping lessons. During his adolescence, he attended Glen Ridge High School where he met his future Curriculum band members Gregory Preston Athanasiadis, Phillip Mandelbaum, and Dana Breckenridge. Wyatt graduated from Glen Ridge in his class top five percentile and eventually went to New York University.

van Cleef is of Dutch ancestry on his father's side and Swiss ancestry on his mother's side.

Career
Curriculum formed in 2006 with van Cleef as the co-founding members of the band along with Gregory Preston Athanasiadis, Phillip Mandelbaum, and Dana Breckenridge. The band released their debut album Syllabus in February 2012 and it reached #1 in the UK while also becoming an international hit. The album spawned four singles which were successful internationally. In 2013, the band decided to go on a brief hiatus following Athanasiadis' admission into rehab and the solo careers of Mandelbaum and van Cleef himself.

2013 to present: Solo career
In January 2013, van Cleef announced that he was pursuing a solo career of his own. It is unknown what he will do for his solo material just yet. He has stated that it will be released sometime soon in early 2013. van Cleef had previously rapped on 8-Bit's track "The Medway" though it was credited to all of Curriculum and not just him.

Personal life
van Cleef has seven children by seven different women. His first child was born when he was fifteen years old in 2006, while his six other children were born within the same year in 2012. The gap between his first child and his six other children is the cause of when van Cleef was involved in a freak accident that left his reproductive system briefly damaged, temporarily rendering him from having any children. Though still "functional", it took exactly six years for all of his reproductive system to fully recover before he began having children again. He is currently helping raise all seven of his children and is also supporting them financially with help from his father, mother, and stepfather/uncle.

van Cleef was not or has never been in a relationship with anyone, including the mothers of his children. He is currently single. When in the US, he still lives with his father but in the UK, he lives with his bandmates.

Discography
see Curriculum discography