Devendra Banhart · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
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Devendra Banhart is a male singer-songwriter, musician, and guitarist born in Houston, Texas, in 1981. He holds citizenship in the United States and Venezuela. His musical career began in 2002, and he performs in the folk music, folk rock, indie folk, and New Weird America genres. Banhart plays the guitar and uses his voice as an instrument. He is associated with the record label XL Recordings.
He is educated at the San Francisco Art Institute and speaks English and Spanish. Banhart resides in Los Angeles. His works are held in the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. In addition to his music, he has worked in the acting department.
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Film & TV
Houston, Texas, USA
Known for
- AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex — Self2023
- Tell Them We Were Here — Self2021
- Honey I Sure Miss You — Self2020
- Swans: Where Does a Body End? — Self2019
- Your War (I'm One of You): 20 Years of Joan of Arc — Self2017
- Adam Green's Aladdin — Townsperson with Lamp2016
- How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come — Hector the mailman2015
- Transparent — Wolfgang2014
- Mondo Taurobolium — Mondo-T2013
- Song 1 — Singing Man2012
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1981
Discography
- Oh Me Oh My… The Way the Day Goes by the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit2002
- The Charles C. Leary2002
- The Black Babies2003
- A Sight to Behold / Be Kind2004
- At the Hop2004
- Here Are Four Songs From Rejoicing in the Hands of the Golden Empress2004
- Little Yellow Spider2004
- Niño rojo2004
- Rejoicing in the Hands2004
- Rejoicing In The Hands / Niño Rojo2004
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,381,611
- Total plays
- 60,555,035
Tags
Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. His first few records were released on the Young God Records label from New York City. His most recent CD was released by Nonesuch. He is one of the most popular artists to come out of the "New Weird America" movement, which includes performers such as Faun Fables <a href="
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Venezuela
- Place of birth
- Houston
- Occupation
- draftsperson
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- folk rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- XL Recordings
- Official website
- devendrabanhart.com
- Image
- Devendra2.jpg
- Residence
- Los Angeles
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- Commons category
- Devendra Banhart
- date of birth
- 1981-05-30
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- name in native language
- Devendra Banhart
- social media followers
- 27849
- has works in the collection
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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