Question: Devendra Banhart's musical sound can be compared to the band the Bowerbirds and also to his early childhood in what country?

<P0-S0>  Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. <P0-S1>  He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San Francisco and Los Angeles. <P0-S2> Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist. <P0-S3>  Banhart released his debut album in 2002, continuing to record his material on the Young God and XL labels, as well as other work on compilations and collaborations. <SEP> <P1-S0> Wooden Wand is the stage name of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, who has recorded under his given name as well as the name WAND. <P1-S1>  The style of music recorded by Toth and his many incarnations has drawn on a variety of both conventional and experimental folk and rock influences, including psychedelic folk, freak folk and indie. <P1-S2>  Though he was a significant player in the New Weird America trend of the early to mid-2000s along with Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, Joanna Newsom, and collaborators The Vanishing Voice, Toth has been difficult to pigeonhole in one genre; recent releases have been identified as acid folk, free jazz, outlaw country, and country-tinged rock. <P1-S3>  Toth has appeared on labels including Kill Rock Stars, Ecstatic Peace! <P1-S4> , Rykodisc, and Young God. <SEP> <P2-S0> Lilian Gonshaw Katz (b. 1932) is a Professor Emerita of early childhood education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also principal investigator for the Illinois Early Learning Project, and a contributor to the Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative. <P2-S1>  She founded two journals: "Early Childhood Research Quarterly" for which she served as editor-in-chief during its first six years, and "Early Childhood Research & Practice" the first on-line peer-reviewed early-childhood journal for which she remains editor-in-chief. <P2-S2>  Her scholarly work focused on the developmental stages of a teacher, child social development, and she has been a proponent of the project-based learning approach to childhood education, believing children learn best in informal and interactive situations. <SEP> <P3-S0> Bowerbirds is an American folk band formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2006. <P3-S1>  Allmusic writer Stewart Mason places their sound on "the dividing line between the freak folk contingent led by Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom and the more straightforward sunshine pop of Lavender Diamond." <P3-S2>  The group comprises Philip Moore (vocals, guitar), Beth Tacular (accordion, vocals) and Mark Paulson (violin, vocals). <P3-S3>  Their debut album, "Hymns for a Dark Horse", released under Burly Time Records in 2007, received favorable reviews from publications such as Pitchfork, Time Out New York and Prefix Magazine. <P3-S4> Bowerbirds have toured in support of The Mountain Goats, with John Darnielle referring to the band as his "favorite new band in forever". <P3-S5>  Their second album, "Upper Air", was released July 7, 2009. <P3-S6>  The band released "The Clearing" on March 6, 2012.