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Devendra Banhart: Folk Hero

Dorian Lynskey, Q, October 2007

Devendra Banheart was born in Texas, raised in Caracas, then fetched up in Paris and San Francisco and currently lives in a world of his own. His music's been called "freak-folk". Yet there's no words to adequately describe the 26-year-old's six-album tapestry of folk, doo-wop, gospel and prog.

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