Devendra Banhart

American singer and songwriter

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In full:: Devendra Obi Banhart

Born:: May 30, 1981, Houston, Texas, U.S. (age 43)

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Devendra Banhart (born May 30, 1981, Houston, Texas, U.S.) is an American singer-songwriter whose experimental genre-transcending recordings, which blended acoustic folk, psychedelia, and stream-of-consciousness lyrics, formed the cornerstone of an early 21st-century musical aesthetic often termed “freak folk.” Banhart spent the majority of his childhood in his mother’s native Caracas. Upon returning to the United States, he studied for a time at the San Francisco Art Institute before eventually focusing on a career in music. The first album to bring Banhart to wide attention was Oh Me Oh My… (2002), an extension of the distinctly personal lo-fi recordings he first ...(100 of 372 words)

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