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Devendra Banhart

Often regarded as the godfather of the nu-folk scene, Devendra Banhart's traditional, finger-picking, singer-songwriter style comes with psychedelic, avant-garde and country influences, while his lyrics meander through strange and wonderfully oddball worlds. Born on May 30, 1981, in Houston, Texas, and raised in Caracas, Venezuela by his mother, he returned to America and Los Angeles when he was 14. He dropped out of college to busk and drift around Paris before releasing his first recordings through Michael Gira's label Young God Records. Sometimes described as freak folk, somet...