‘Delivery jobs are not for the weak!’ How Kwn went from Amazon driver to R&B star

Kwn has never been one to turn her nose up at a job. She worked night shifts at Sainsbury’s and chopped vegetables with her dad, the head chef at the Ivy in London. But her first day as an Amazon delivery driver in 2024 was soul-crushing: two years earlier she had signed a deal and released her debut EP, Episode Wn, and now she had been dropped from her label and was broke.

Sitting in her van at the end of the shift, Wilson burst into tears. “Be nice to your delivery drivers,” says the 26-year-old. “It’s not for the weak. By the time I got home, I was shattered. I don’t want to make music. What the fuck am I even gonna write about?

Delivering packages?” She lasted five months. After failed attempts to drum up industry interest, she and her manager decided to sell the next single, Worst Behaviour, directly to fans for £1.99.

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