Background
Jim Ankan Deka was born in Guwahati, Assam on 1 June 1980, to Assamese writer-couple Professor Bhabananda Deka and Nalini Prava Deka.
Jim Ankan Deka was born in Guwahati, Assam on 1 June 1980, to Assamese writer-couple Professor Bhabananda Deka and Nalini Prava Deka.
He is the first Assamese to open a music institute and a production house in Bangalore, India. Early life and education 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 television shows, Deka made a name for himself in the music industry of Assam.
In 2001 Deka founded a studio in Guwahati named Louisiana-Jiazz which was closed in 2006. Music career Since 1998, Deka has been composing and arranging music for albums, television series, documentaries, short films and ad jingles.
Till 2012 he has composed music for six albums in various languages including English, Hindi, Assamese, Mizo and Goalporia.
Deka left for Bangalore in 2006 and founded the ace music institute. In 2010, opened a production house in Bangalore called Eastern Fare Productions.
Deka has been invited as a guest and judge for some of the major music competitions and events in India. Some of the notable events where Deka was invited as a judge were Ananya "10 at Kammavari Sangha Institute of Technology (KSIT), 12th Inter Collegiate Youth Fest at Channabasaveshwara Institute of Technology (Cork Institute of Technology), Spring Fest at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT), Alcheringa at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT), Rock Hammer at Indian National Autocross Championship (INAC), Consensio at Royal Group of Institutions and Idea Rocks India Talent Hunt.
At present he is a member of Veenar, a jazz fusion band and Eastern Fare, an acoustic rock band in Bangalore.