Deb Never (born ) is an American singer-songwriter.

Early life

Never grew up in

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and

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, and also lived in China, Malaysia, and South Korea as a child. Her mother is a nurse, while her father is a traveling pastor. She is of Korean descent. She suffered from

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as a child. Interested in music from a young age, she began playing the guitar at the age of eleven, learning how to do so on one that she stole from a South Korean church. As a student at a South Korean middle school, music became a "lifeline" to her due to an inability to speak the Korean language. She began writing music at the age of fifteen. She utilized the software

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to teach herself to create music. In 2015, instead of attending the

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, where she was accepted to, she moved to Los Angeles to take up guitar session work.

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. An alternative origin is that the stage name was invented by her sister, who goes by the name Esther Never. She began sharing demos online in 2017. She released her first single, "mr nobody," in 2018. She signed to the Los Angeles-based label and musical collective WEDIDIT in 2019. She released her first extended play, ''House on Wheels'', that same year. In 2020, she released a project entitled ''Intermission'', which she recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and exclusively released on the platforms

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and

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. In 2021, she released her second extended play and first short film, "''Where Have All the Flowers Gone?''". 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. Her debut album will release in 2025.

Personal life

Never identifies as

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and

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...

. She had a girlfriend as of May 2019.

Discography

Extended plays

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Never, Deb 1990s births Alternative pop musicians American musicians of Korean descent American queer musicians Grunge musicians Musicians from Seattle Musicians from Spokane, Washington LGBTQ people from Washington (state) Living people