Willow Kayne

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.

Early life Willow Katherine Kayne was born to Toploader's Dancing in the Moonlight. Her sister makes classical music, who had previously produced music videos by The Prodigy, Nick Cave, and Erasure. 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". she had contracted acanthamoeba, which ate three out of four layers of her cornea. 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.

Career 2019–2022: Playground Antics In 2019, she and Kenya Grace made the Top 21 in ISawItFirst, a nationwide search in collaboration with Capital Xtra intended to find new women musicians, winning a music video for "Ctrl Alt Dlt". On 28 April 2021, she released her début single, "Two Seater"; the song had been written a year earlier. After being used in a TikTok advert, the song received over 1,000 abusive comments, which she released on 22 July 2021. In September, and later that month "Two Seater" turned up on the FIFA 22 soundtrack. which had been written the year before, and about abusive comments she had received. On 1 February 2022, she released the EP Playground Antics, which featured "Two Seater", "I Don't Wanna Know", and "Opinion".

2022–present: Mr Universe, Loud LDN and "Cola Head" On 5 May 2022, Kayne released the single "Final Notice", which featured "Final Notice". On 22 August, she released "Rat Race", and which featured "White City" and "Final Notice". On 23 September that year, she released the four-track Mr Universe EP, and which featured "Rat Race", "White City", and "Final Notice". On 19 May 2023, she released "Cola Head", as an independent artist, and then the following April she released "Robot Lovers", about the effects of technology on love. In 2025, Kayne co-wrote "Lovesick" and "Candy" for girl group XO; both songs featured on their debut EP, Fashionably Late. She also co-wrote "Clique" for the group, which featured on their second project, Need to Know.

In 2026, Kayne's song I've Got This All Under Control (stylized in all caps) was featured in an Apple Mac advertisement titled "Mac Students: The journey to great ideas in college". The advertisement is available to view on Apple's official YouTube channel.

Artistry Kayne's primary influences are Pharrell Williams, British rave culture, and Bristol, although when "Mr Universe" came out, she cited M-Beat and E-Z Rollers as inspirations, and when "Cola Head" came out, she cited the Neptunes.