Editing Devendra Banhart (section)

==Early life==
Banhart was born in [[Houston, Texas]], to a Venezuelan mother, María Eugenia Rísquez, and an American father, Robert Gary Banhart. His mother worked as a model. His given name is a synonym for [[Indra]], suggested by Indian religious leader [[Prem Rawat]] (whom Banhart's parents followed),<ref name="TO070812">{{cite news|last=Campion|first=Chris|title=Stranger than folk|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date=August 12, 2007|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/aug/12/popandrock5|access-date=May 7, 2009}}</ref> and his middle name Obi takes after [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]], a ''[[Star Wars]]'' character.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bemis|first=Alec Hanley|title=The Soft Revolution|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 28, 2005|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-aug-28-tm-soft35-story.html|access-date=May 14, 2009}}</ref>

His parents divorced in 1983, after which Rísquez and he moved to [[Caracas]], Venezuela.<ref name="SFW">{{cite news|last=Kamps|first=Garrett|title=Man of La Mantra|newspaper=[[SF Weekly]]|date=January 8, 2003|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-01-08/music/man-of-la-mantra/|access-date=April 20, 2009|archive-date=May 23, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523232506/http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-01-08/music/man-of-la-mantra/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rísquez later remarried and when Banhart was age 14, his stepfather moved the family to Los Angeles, California.<ref name="SFW" /><ref name="TPD090403">{{cite news|last=Beck|first=John|title=The wide, way-out world of Devendra|newspaper=[[The Press Democrat]]|date=April 1, 2009|url=http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090417/COMMUNITY/904179963|access-date=April 23, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421153903/http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090417/COMMUNITY/904179963|archive-date=April 21, 2009}}</ref>

In 1998, Banhart began studying at the San Francisco Art Institute on a scholarship<ref name="SFW" /> while living in [[Castro District, San Francisco|The Castro]], San Francisco's [[Gay village|"gay" district]],<ref name="SFC051026">{{cite news|last=Vaziri|first=Aidin|title=Sweet, shocking, mesmerizing – Devendra Banhart follows his sprawling, childlike musical muse|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=October 26, 2005|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/26/DDGPIF7Q7K18.DTL|access-date=April 20, 2009}}</ref> though he would often [[Street performance|busk]] instead of attending class. He played his first musical show in a church at a [[Same-sex marriage|gay wedding]], performing [[Elvis Presley]]'s "[[Love Me Tender (song)|Love Me Tender]]" and the [[hymn]] "[[How Great Thou Art]]".<ref name="TPD090403" />