Jim Ankan Deka

Jim Ankan Deka (Assamese: জিম অংকন ডেকা; born 1 June 1980) is an Assamese musician, documentary film maker, photographer and director of Bangalore based organisation and music school Eastern Fare Music Foundation. He is the first Assamese to open a music institute and a production house in Bangalore, India. He won multiple awards for his song Aawaz - speak up against sexual violence based on the 2012 Delhi gang rape incident.

Biography

Early life and education

Jim Ankan Deka was born in Guwahati, Assam on 1 June 1980, to Assamese writer-couple Prof Bhabananda Deka and Nalini Prava Deka. He is the third of three children.

Deka started playing the guitar from the age of three. His initial training was in Borgeet and Khol.

Early career

Jim Ankan Deka started his career in music at the age of 18 with his first album Prahar: Tumi Kowa Kothabor with an Assamese band Prahar. With his performance as a guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist in numerous concerts, events and TV shows, Deka made a name for himself in the music industry of Assam. In 2001 Deka founded a studio in Guwahati named La-Jiazz which was closed in 2006. Deka is a member of the band Voodoo Child in Assam.