Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart is exactly the kind of artist I gravitate toward, someone hard to pin down. Born in Texas, raised partly in Venezuela and California, then dropping out of the San Francisco Art Institute to chase music, he's got a restless, self-directed streak I admire. He became a central figure in the so-called freak-folk wave of the late 2000s with albums like Cripple Crow, but the fact that he's also a visual artist tells me music was never the whole story for him. I find his refusal to stay in one lane the most interesting thing about him, and it's why his work still feels personal rather than packaged.

Name (English)

Devendra Banhart

Name (Japanese)

デヴェンドラ・バンハート

Reading

でゔぇんどら・ばんはーと

Born

May 30, 1981 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / musician / singer / guitarist / draftsperson

High school

Malibu High School

• Official sitehttps://devendrabanhart.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/devendrabanhart/
• Xhttps://x.com/DevendraBanhart
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devendra%20Banhart
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223443

Tags

• Texas
• singer-songwriter
• musician
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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