Jim Ankan Deka Biography 
Jim Ankan Deka is a film maker, photographer and musician of Assamese language. He is the director of Eastern Fare Music Foundation, a music school in Bangalore, the first Assamese to start a musical institute and a production house in Bangalore. He was born in an intellectual family of Assam to Professor Bhabananda Deka and writer Nalini Prava Deka as the youngest of three children. Most recently in 2013, his music video, Aawaz - speak up against sexual violence won Best Music Video award at Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival. He is also a documentary film maker.
Deka was born in Guwahati, Assam on 1 June 1980. He started playing guitar at the age of 3 and did his initial training in Borgeet and Khol. Deka started his career in music at the age of 18. In association with the music band Prahar, he reelased his first album Prahar: Tumi Kowa Kothabor. He works as a musician in different concerts as a guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist. Now he is a known face in the state of Assam. In 2001 Deka founded a studio in Guwahati named La-Jiazz and has been a member of the band Voodoo Child in Assam during 2005-2006.
Since 1998, Deka works as a music composer and arranger for albums, TV series, documentaries, short films and ad jingles and now a part of Veenar, a jazz fusion band. Till 2012 he has composed music for six albums in various languages. He is also a concert and event photographer since 2006. He reached Bangalore in the year 2006 where he set up Eastern Fare Music Foundation, a music school. Deka directed two short documentaries, Nagaland: Journey through the choir of clouds and Shillong under the same production house.
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Updated: February 03, 2014
