Will Swinton worked at a trampoline park in Auckland and DJed drum and bass on the side — badly, by his own admission — before he spent every dollar he'd saved on a one-way flight to LA to actually chase music instead of just talking about it.
"All For You," his debut single, reached No. 6 on New Zealand's Hot 20 Singles Chart, and "Wasted You" followed it to No. 15, part of a run that's pulled in more than 100 million TikTok views and close to 10 million streams in barely a year.
He met Machine Gun Kelly by pure chance at a bar in Idaho, of all places, and ended up at his sold-out Cleveland homecoming show not long after — the kind of random connection that doesn't happen to someone who stayed at the trampoline park.