Deb Never

Never grew up in Seattle and Spokane, Washington,^[2] and also lived in China, Malaysia, and South Korea as a child.^[3][5][4] Her mother is a nurse, while her father is a traveling pastor.^[3][6][7] She is of Korean descent.^[3] She suffered from social anxiety as a child.^[3] Interested in music from a young age, she began playing the guitar at the age of eleven,^[8][9] learning how to do so on one that she stole from a South Korean church.^[3][4] As a student at a South Korean middle school, music became a "lifeline" to her due to an inability to speak the Korean language.^[10] She began writing music at the age of fifteen.^[7][9] She utilized the software GarageBand to teach herself to create music.^[10] In 2015, instead of attending the University of Washington, where she was accepted to, she moved to Los Angeles^[10] to take up guitar session work.^[6]

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.^[6] An alternative origin is that the stage name was invented by her sister, who goes by the name Esther Never.^[5] She began sharing demos online in 2017.^[7] She released her first single, "mr nobody," in 2018.^[9] She signed to the Los Angeles-based label and musical collective WEDIDIT in 2019.^[4] She released her first extended play, House on Wheels, that same year.^[11][12] In 2020, she released a project entitled Intermission,^[7] which she recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and exclusively released on the platforms Bandcamp and SoundCloud.^[9] In 2021, she released her second extended play and first short film,^[8] "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?".^[13] 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.^[8] Her debut album will release in 2025.^[1]

Never identifies as gay and queer.^[6] She had a girlfriend as of May 2019.^[5]