Devendra Banhart is a Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter and visual artist born in Houston, Texas, who grew up in Caracas before settling in Los Angeles. He emerged in 2002 when Swans frontman Michael Gira released his debut on Young God Records, and quickly became a defining figure of the freak folk and New Weird America movements. His music weaves acoustic folk with psychedelia, Latin rhythms and surrealist lyrics - often switching between English and Spanish mid-set - and his parallel career as a visual artist has taken his drawings to galleries worldwide, including Art Basel.
Banhart is scheduled to perform at Malta Festival in Poznań on 25 June 2026, his first appearance at the festival in roughly twenty years.
Banhart launched a nearly 30-date global tour on 11 September 2025, performing Cripple Crow in its entirety, with stops across the US, Europe, Japan and Latin America.
The Cripple Crow 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition was released on 12 September 2025 via Banhart's newly founded label Heavy Flowers, featuring nine bonus tracks including previously unreleased demos and live recordings.
Banhart performed a solo set at Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht on 8 November 2025.
Billboard reported that Banhart is working on a forthcoming collaborative album with Ecuadorian-American artist Helado Negro.
