Devendra Banhart
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Devendra Banhart (born May 30, 1981 in Houston , Texas ) is an American-Venezuelan psychedelic folk singer and songwriter . His albums , published by Young God Records and most recently by XL Recordings , as well as the compilation he put together The Golden Apples of the Sun , which gathers musicians such as Joanna Newsom , Antony and the Johnsons , CocoRosie and Josephine Foster , are style-defining for the New Weird- America movement.
Life
Banhart's parents took the first name Devendra from Prem Rawat , an Indian mystic whose followers they were. They separated two years after the birth of their son. Devendra moved with his Venezuelan mother to Caracas , Venezuela , where he stayed until he was 14 years old. When Devendra's mother remarried, the family moved to Los Angeles .
Banhart has been writing pieces for guitar since he was twelve.
In 1998 Devendra Banhart moved to San Francisco to study at the San Francisco Art Academy . He lived in the famous gay district of Castro and soon began to play guitar in various bars and clubs .
In 2000 he broke off his studies and moved to Paris, where he was discovered in a small club. In the same year he went back to the United States and commuted back and forth between San Francisco and Los Angeles without a permanent residence. During this time he recorded songs, sometimes on friends' answering machines . His first two publications are composed of these pieces.
Banhart is considered the leader of a pop music revival movement called "Freak Folk".
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Banhart's first album, The Charles C. Leary , was released by Hinah in 2002 and does not even appear in most discographies ; Mostly Oh Me Oh My ... The Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit is referred to as his debut. In the next few years, Rejoicing in the Hands , Niño Rojo and Cripple Crow appeared in quick succession . While the first albums are still very minimalistic and many of the pieces only consist of vocals and guitar , Devendra Banhart is supported by a larger band on Cripple Crow .
On the title track of Rejoicing in the Hands , Banhart sings in a duet with the legendary songwriter Vashti Bunyan . In an interview he describes her as "the living Nick Drake ". Apparently he writes her name on his arm before every concert.
Banhart's play Insect Eyes was featured in the teaser trailer of the horror film The Hills Have Eyes 2 . The song The Body Breaks from the album Rejoicing In The Hands is played during an animation sequence in the New Zealand film Eagle vs Shark . Moreover Carmensita in the film 17 girls to hear. The title Lover was used in the American teen comedy Nick and Norah - Soundtrack of a Night .
Devendra Banhart was the first artist to donate a design to the Yellow Bird Project to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Discography
- The Charles C. Leary ( Hinah , 2002)
- Oh Me Oh My | Oh Me Oh My… The Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit ( Young God Records , 2002)
- The Black Babies (UK EP) ( Young God , 2003)
- Rejoicing in the Hands ( Young God , 2004)
- Niño Rojo ( Young God , 2004)
- Cripple Crow ( XL Recordings , 2005)
- Devendra Banhart / Jana Hunter ( Split EP with Jana Hunter , Troubleman Unlimited # 153, LP, 2005)
- Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon ( XL Recordings / Beggars Group / Indigo , 2007)
- What Will We Be ( Reprise Records , 2009)
- Mala ( Nonesuch Records , 2013)
- Ape in Pink Marble (Nonesuch Records, 2016)
- Ma (Nonesuch Records, 2019)
Recordings with other musicians
- Rejoicing in the Hands with Vashti Bunyan on The Golden Apples of the Sun (2004)
- UNICEF Benefit Song with various musicians on Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? (2005)
- Spiralling with Antony and the Johnsons on I Am a Bird Now (2005)
- The Black Swan with Bert Jansch (2006)
- The second Water Piece project with Yoko Ono .
- The song The Century Trilogy III: The Fall with Tarantula AD on her album Book of Sand
- Brazilian Sun with CocoRosie on their second album Noah's Ark
- Houses with CocoRosie on their third album The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
- A cover version of Caetano Velosos London, London with Cibelle
- Who Loves on Matteah Baim's album Death of the Sun with Jana Hunter
- The album Surfing by Megapuss with Gregg Rogove from Priestbird , Fab Moretti from The Strokes and MTV comedian Aziz Ansari (2008)
- You Fucking People Make Me Sick on My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky by Swans (2010)
- A cover version of The Overachievers by the Liars on the deluxe edition of the album Sisterworld and the EP The Overachievers (2010)
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- ↑ a b Chart sources: UK US
- ↑ Portrait in DIE ZEIT 50/2009 p. 70 (feature section): [1]
- ↑ For example on the homepage of XL Recordings ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ splendidezine.com interview ( memento of the original from December 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "The Hills Have Eyes 2" trailer
- ↑ Soundtrack of "Nick and Norah - Soundtrack of a Night" in the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Yellow Bird Project ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Look
- Interview with splendidezine.com
- Interview with SF Weekly
- BBC article on New Weird America, with sound samples
- Review
- Concert photos by Laurent Orseau
- "All because of Paris" - Interview with Devendra Banhart in the magazine U mag (December 2009)
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| SURNAME | Banhart, Devendra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychedelic folk singer and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston , Texas , USA |