The face of new age Assamese music | Eclectic Northeast
(An article by Jadeed Hussain published on Eclectic Northeast magazine on June 1, 2015) Musician Jim Ankan Deka's love for the music of his native land has prompted him to take Assamese music to the global stage Jim had moved to Bangalore from Guwahati to do his Masters in Psychology. After completing his studies, made his foray into the corporate world, but after a series of job changes, he realized that music was his only true calling. He joined a music school and slowly offers started to trickle from the film and television industry of Karnataka. He started off with a Kannada TV series in 2007 where he arranged the music for four songs. He admits that the language barrier was very much there but working with a director who was free to take inputs from him helped him deliver his best. He also teamed up with Carnatic classical musician and playback singer Suchethan Rangaswamy to form a band called 'Veenar'; they released their first song in Kannada called Eesha Ni...
