Luis Devin (edit name/settings)

Music anthropologist and author, Luis Devin has carried out field research in central Africa, where he lived with the Baka pygmies and other Congo Basin hunter-gatherers, whose music, rituals and survival strategies he has been studying for more than a decade. In 2000, while he was still a student of anthropology he took part in the secret rites of male initiation of the Baka, in the Cameroon rainforest, and thus became accepted as a member of one of their clans. In the years that followed he continued his field research while also completing a Doctorate in Ethnomusicology and two diplomas (in Composition and Choral Music) at the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of Music of Turin. "La Foresta ti ha" (The Forest Has You), his first book, is an account of his experience of initiation rites with the Baka pygmies.