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How a Bedroom Instagram Live Session Yielded KWN’s Breakthrough Hit ‘Worst Behaviour’
The enigmatic London crooner is Billboard's R&B Rookie of the Month for March. Read the full interview.
Hailing from Walthamstow, East London, kwn (pronounced kay-one) grew up in a musical household soundtracked by selections from her mother, two older sisters and former-DJ father. Her time at East London gave her space to find her sonic pocket – a moody amalgam of trap, soulful vocal stacks and splashes of dark electronic music that both captures and reimagines the post- Bryson Tiller R&B landscape – with early tracks like “Tell Me”(with Natrell). Billboard spoke with March’s R&B Rookie of the Month about what she learned from touring with Kehlani, how the steamy “Worst Behaviour” music video came together, collaborating with ROTM alum J ordan Adetunji, and how she views the U.K. R&B scene.
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