Devendra Banhart

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...