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.

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 parents never married and he was born into a "financially-mixed" family; van Cleef's father was a wealthy socialite and heir to his father's massive multimillion-dollar fortune and his mother was middle class working for Wyatt's paternal grandfather as his personal assistant and secretary. His father has ten children in total, including Wyatt, by nine different women (he has twins) who were all born during the span of the same four year period. Wyatt is the second youngest child of his father and his younger brother was born two months after him in May 1991. Wyatt's father has never been in a relationship but gained a reputation for being a "playboy". Wyatt primarily lived with his father in an affluent neighborhood in a mansion.

When van Cleef was ten years old, his father moved him and six of his half-siblings to Conneticut in an affluent wealthy suburb on New York City (living in the city's Tri-State Area). When Wyatt was sixteen, his mother married his father's older brother and had three children by him. Throughout all of his life, though he mostly lived and was raised by his father, he managed to keep regular contact with his mother and has an "excellent" relationship with her. He is also very close with all of his family including his father, stepfather/uncle, all nine of his half-siblings, and all three of his three-fourths siblings.

Though he lived in suburban Conneticut, he went to school and spent of his time in New York City. While growing up, Wyatt was raised in a musical family and he was initially interested in hip hop music and becoming rapper. However, after he began to take up drumming and piano lessons instead, van Cleef decided that he would be a drummer, pianist, and/or keyboardist instead.

On his father's side, van Cleef is of Dutch ancestry while his maternal grandparents come from England and Scotland.

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.

Personal life
van Cleef has five children by five different women; all of them were born during the same six month period. In August 2012, it was announced that van Cleef was expecting a sixth child from a sixth different woman. van Cleef was not or has never been in a relationship with any of his children's mother. van Cleef is said to be helping raising his children. He is currently single.