Willow Kayne
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- Singer
- songwriter
Willow Kayne | |
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| Born | Willow Katherine Kayne Bristol, England |
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| Years active | 2020–present |
| Member of | Loud LDN |
| Website | www |
Willow Katherine Kayne is a British singer and songwriter. She won an Ivor Novello Rising Star Award in 2021. She is a member of Loud LDN.
Willow Katherine Kayne[1] was born to Toploader's Dancing in the Moonlight.[2] Her sister makes classical music,[3] and her mother, Emma, was a teaching assistant at St Patrick's Catholic Primary School in Corsham,[4] who had previously produced music videos by The Prodigy, Nick Cave,[5] and Erasure.[6] In 2011, the Wiltshire Times noted that a "ten-year-old" Willow and a classmate had addressed Wiltshire Council, following threats to withdraw the subsidised bus she was travelling to St. Patrick's from; the same article noted that she travelled there "from Melksham".[4] She also attended Wiltshire College & University Centre.[7]
When she was fifteen, she temporarily lost the sight in her left eye, and permanently in her right;[8] she had contracted acanthamoeba, which ate three out of four layers of her cornea.[7] At the time, she was interested in a career in graphics, but changed course after listening to her favourite songs while blind and hearing things she had not heard before.[8] She started making music in 2018, after receiving a new computer bundled with GarageBand; she would later make music with a torrented version of Logic Pro. Early tracks were released on SoundCloud.[3]
