For more than 20 years, singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart has been bringing his distinctive croon to bear on a brilliant catalogue that has hopped from outsider folk to synthpop. As he prepares to release his next album, Flying Wig, on 22 September, he’ll answer your questions spanning his career to date, which you can post in the comments below.
Born in Texas, Banhart was raised in his mother’s homeland of Venezuela before moving back to the US in his teens. A spell at art school led to experiments with music, and he began the kind of free-spirited songwriting and performance that came to define him, busking around various cities and recording musical sketches on the fly. His breakthrough second album, Oh Me Oh My, came out in 2002, and Banhart became a key name in the diffuse “freak folk” movement of the era.
