Biography
Riley Buccola, performing as R I L E Y and RILEY (previously RILEY JVMES) is an alternative R&B singer and tour manger from Huntington Beach, California.
RILEY began writing music while in high school, but went to cosmetology school after graduating, becoming a hairdresser. He ended up tour managing for friend's bands, eventually leaving his salon job to manage a US tour for Pacific Dub. He tour managed his way through the Warped Tour scene, eventually becoming the tour manger for Capital Cities and blackbear.
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It was after seeing the crowd during blackbear's Coachella set that RILEY decided to become a performer himself. Before finishing his EP, " Love Was Never Enough", he was performing on Warped Tour while simultaneously tour managing Chase Atlantic on the same tour.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.