Deb Never

Never grew up in Seattle and Spokane, Washington,{{Cite web |title=Summer’s Ending, But Deb Never Is Just Getting Started |url=https://www.flaunt.com/blog/deb-never |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Flaunt}} and also lived in China, Malaysia, and South Korea as a child.{{Cite web |last=Domanick |first=Andrea |date=December 20, 2019 |title=Deb Never’s effortless cool |url=https://www.thefader.com/2019/12/20/deb-never-gen-f-interview |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=The Fader |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Cooperstone |first=Anne |date=May 29, 2019 |title=Deb Never Premieres "Ugly" Music Video |url=https://www.papermag.com/deb-never-ugly |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Paper |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Price |first=Joe |date=January 31, 2019 |title=Deb Never is Polishing Her Grunge-y, Lo-Fi Sound Without Losing Her Edge |url=https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/a/backwoodsaltar/wedidit-deb-never-interview |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Complex |language=en}} Her mother is a nurse, while her father is a traveling pastor.{{Cite web |last=Min |first=Lio |date=September 8, 2021 |title=Deb Never Makes Boundless Pop for a Rule-Breaking Generation |url=https://www.them.us/story/deb-never-where-have-all-the-flowers-gone-interview |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Them |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Alston |first=Trey |date=April 1, 2021 |title=Deb Never: Keeping the DIY Spirit Alive in Music |url=https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/a/treyalston/deb-never-diy-spirit |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Complex |language=en}} She is of Korean descent. She suffered from social anxiety as a child. Interested in music from a young age, she began playing the guitar at the age of eleven,{{Cite web |last=Capulong |first=Izzy |last2=Solomon |first2=Liv |date=April 29, 2023 |title=Deb Never Thanks You |url=https://officemagazine.net/deb-never-thanks-you?page=1 |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Office Magazine |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Freyaldenhoven |first=Laura |date=May 11, 2021 |title=Deb Never: “All music is, is just feeling. It’s instinct” |url=https://readdork.com/features/deb-never-may-2021/ |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Dork |language=en-GB}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Lobenfeld |first=Claire |date=October 5, 2020 |title=Deb Never: “No one can be me” |url=https://theface.com/music/deb-never-alt-pop-intermission-interview-volume-4-issue-4 |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=The Face |language=en-gb}} She began writing music at the age of fifteen. She utilized the software GarageBand to teach herself to create music. In 2015, instead of attending the University of Washington, where she was accepted to, she moved to Los Angeles to take up guitar session work.

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.{{Cite web |last=Daw |first=Stephen |date=August 30, 2019 |title=Deb Never Breaks Down Debut EP ‘House on Wheels’, Reveals How Brockhampton Collab Came About |url=https://www.billboard.com/culture/pride/deb-never-brockhampton-house-on-wheels-interview-8528798/ |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Billboard |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Ricciardi |first=Angela |date=September 13, 2019 |title=Deb Never Puts on a Front |url=https://officemagazine.net/deb-never-puts-front?page=99 |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Office Magazine |language=en}} In 2020, she released a project entitled Intermission, which she recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and exclusively released on the platforms Bandcamp and SoundCloud. In 2021, she released her second extended play and first short film, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?".{{Cite web |last=Wang |first=Steffanee |date=October 20, 2021 |title=Deb Never On 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone?' & Being A Simp For Love |url=https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/deb-never-where-have-all-the-flowers-gone-billie-eilish |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Nylon |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Chelosky |first=Danielle |date=February 6, 2025 |title=Deb Never Shares New Song "This Alive": Listen |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2295868/deb-never-this-alive/music/ |access-date=March 13, 2025 |website=Stereogum |language=en}}

Never identifies as gay and queer. She had a girlfriend as of May 2019.

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Category:1990s births

Category:Alternative pop musicians

Category:American musicians of Korean descent

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