The group consists of siblings Narelle and Benjamin Kheng, together with their friends Sandra Riley Tang and Jonathan Chua.
[3] In April 2013, the Singaporean quartet entered the studio with Steve Lillywhite for a week-long production session, organized by Singapore Music Society (SG MUSO).
[citation needed] In August 2013, the band released their "Glasshouse (Lillywhite edition)" music video.
[citation needed] The band signed to Sony Music Singapore on a 360 deal in January 2015 and embarked on their journey to Stockholm, Sweden to record their debut album, Take Heart, with producer Harry Sommerdahl the following month.
[citation needed] The music video for the song was later released in July 2015 and amassed over 1.6 million views on YouTube.
[citation needed] In May 2017, The Sam Willows released "Keep Me Jealous", the first official single from their upcoming second album, co-produced by the band themselves and producers Fredrik Häggstam and Litens Anton Nilsson.
[citation needed] The initial release of four lead singles ("Keep Me Jealous", "Save Myself", "Papa Money" and "Robot") collectively garnered more than 10 million streams and have each been certified GOLD.
[citation needed] With this album, the band hoped to "present a feel-good and happy version of the things (they) struggle with".
[16] On 26 April 2019, The Sam Willows released a mandarin rendition of their single "Say So", from their second studio album I Know, But Where, featuring Joanna Dong.
In 2015, Jon started Zendyll Productions, a recording studio and sound design company in Singapore.
[21] Jon is known to be the big brother in the band who gets things done [22] Narelle Kheng was born on (1993-09-24) 24 September 1993 (age 31) in Singapore.