Deb Never

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Deb Never
Born1992or1993(age 31–32) [1]
OriginLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres
Years active2017–present
LabelsWEDIDIT
Website debnever.com

Deb Never (born 1992or1993) [1] is an American singer-songwriter.

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Early life

Never grew up in Seattle and Spokane, Washington, [3] and also lived in China, Malaysia, and South Korea as a child. [4] [6] [5] Her mother is a nurse, while her father is a traveling pastor. [4] [7] [8] She is of Korean descent. [4] She suffered from social anxiety as a child. [4] Interested in music from a young age, she began playing the guitar at the age of eleven, [9] [10] learning how to do so on one that she stole from a South Korean church. [4] [5] As a student at a South Korean middle school, music became a "lifeline" to her due to an inability to speak the Korean language. [11] She began writing music at the age of fifteen. [8] [10] She utilized the software GarageBand to teach herself to create music. [11] In 2015, instead of attending the University of Washington, where she was accepted to, she moved to Los Angeles [11] to take up guitar session work. [7]

Musical career

One origin for Never's stage name is that it comes from a joke on social media about a nonexistent person who likes one's posted photos. [7] An alternative origin is that the stage name was invented by her sister, who goes by the name Esther Never. [6] She began sharing demos online in 2017. [8] She released her first single, "mr nobody," in 2018. [10] She signed to the Los Angeles-based label and musical collective WEDIDIT in 2019. [5] She released her first extended play, House on Wheels, that same year. [12] [13] In 2020, she released a project entitled Intermission, [8] which she recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and exclusively released on the platforms Bandcamp and SoundCloud. [10] In 2021, she released her second extended play and first short film, [9] "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?". [1] She released her third and final extended play, THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING, in 2023. The extended play was her final one, as she intends to release her debut album in the future. [9] Her debut album will release in 2025. [2]

Personal life

Never identifies as gay and queer. [7] She had a girlfriend as of May 2019. [6]

Discography

Extended plays

List of extended plays, with selected details
TitleAlbum details
House on Wheels
Intermission
  • Released: 2020 [8] [10]
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
  • Released: 2021 [1] [9]
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING
  • Released: 2023 [9]
  • Format: Digital download, streaming

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Wang, Steffanee (October 20, 2021). "Deb Never On 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone?' & Being A Simp For Love". Nylon . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Chelosky, Danielle (February 6, 2025). "Deb Never Shares New Song "This Alive": Listen". Stereogum . Retrieved March 13, 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Summer's Ending, But Deb Never Is Just Getting Started". Flaunt. Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Domanick, Andrea (December 20, 2019). "Deb Never's effortless cool". The Fader . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Price, Joe (January 31, 2019). "Deb Never is Polishing Her Grunge-y, Lo-Fi Sound Without Losing Her Edge". Complex . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 Cooperstone, Anne (May 29, 2019). "Deb Never Premieres "Ugly" Music Video". Paper . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Min, Lio (September 8, 2021). "Deb Never Makes Boundless Pop for a Rule-Breaking Generation". Them . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Alston, Trey (April 1, 2021). "Deb Never: Keeping the DIY Spirit Alive in Music". Complex . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Capulong, Izzy; Solomon, Liv (April 29, 2023). "Deb Never Thanks You". Office Magazine . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Freyaldenhoven, Laura (May 11, 2021). "Deb Never: "All music is, is just feeling. It's instinct"". Dork . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  11. 1 2 3 Lobenfeld, Claire (October 5, 2020). "Deb Never: "No one can be me"". The Face . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  12. 1 2 Daw, Stephen (August 30, 2019). "Deb Never Breaks Down Debut EP 'House on Wheels', Reveals How Brockhampton Collab Came About". Billboard . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  13. 1 2 Ricciardi, Angela (September 13, 2019). "Deb Never Puts on a Front". Office Magazine . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
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