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Bishwadeb Bhaumik (born 1985), better known by his stage name DEB, is an Indian singer, songwriter & composer.

Early Life DEB was born on (DOB), at Kolkata,India. His father, Ashim Bhaumik, was the son of noted businessman Kunja Behari Bhaumik from West Bengal. Growing up in Salt Lake, Calcutta Deb attended Sri Aurobindo Institute of Education where he was accomplished in sports and academics. During his school days, Deb had a band called Mirage. It was during this phase he discovered western philosophy. The band started doing shows all over Kolkata and got a bit popular in the school and college circuits in Kolkata.Deb later attended Heritage Institute of Technology (2002–2006) and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. Although he was working as the Head of Corporate Communications in Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. he later opted out to make his career in Music.

Career The first Bengali song that the Calcutta-native singer released was ‘Phiriye De’, a song about love and separation. Phiriye De got featured under Popular Albums on in.com. It was the Top 5 albums under Bengali Albums and was clicked approximately 15k times in just 2 days! Following the success of “Phiriye De’, he released the music video for his new single ‘What the Fark’. The music video garnered more than 40,000 views on YouTube in less than 24 hours, and was also right behind A.R. Rahman’s ‘Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera’ in the YouTube India Popular section category for three days. Deb released his next single ‘Emon Manush’ (Such a Man), which was officially nominated for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Awards in the music video category. His other music videos include ‘Ore Piya’, ‘Ajooba Indian’ ft Funk You and ‘Hum Bewafa’ ft Dopeadelicz, all of which were popular on Youtube and Social Medias.

Films He is set to make his debut as an actor in the upcoming Bollywood movie ‘Ishq Vs Luv’, starring Rishabh Sinha and Afroz Khan in the lead roles. The movie is directed by Rohith Raj and the music of the movie is composed by DEB himself. The movie is set to be released in October 2016. External Links

References:

1.	Bishwadeb 'Deb' Bhaumik aims to release an album by year end.

2.	Rishabh Sinha and Afroz Khan to make their Bollywood debut.

External Links www.debofficial.com