KWN's father was a DJ back in Nigeria before the family settled in Walthamstow, East London, and the range of music he played at home — R&B, garage, house, various African genres — is directly audible in how genre-agnostic her own music is.
She'd decided she wanted to be a musician by 11 and was already posting original recordings to SoundCloud.
'Worst Behaviour,' her 2024 single, charted in the UK, and its Kehlani-featuring remix crossed over onto the US R&B/Hip-Hop chart — enough to land her a Best New International Act nomination at the BET Awards and a spot on NME's list of essential emerging artists, a fast validation for someone who'd been recording in her bedroom a decade earlier.