Bush was also one of the first rock performers to use a wireless microphone, which freed her up to move around the stage as few singers before her had been capable of doing.
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In England during the spring of 1979, she embarked on what proved to be the only concert tour of the first 37 years of her career, playing a series of shows highlighted by 17 costume changes, lots of dancing, and complex lighting. Her debut album, The Kick Inside, a collection of material that she had written from the age of 15 and onward - some of it displaying extremely provocative and sophisticated sexual references and images - reached number three and sold over a million copies in the U.K.īush's second album, Lionheart, reached number six but didn't achieve anything like the sales totals or critical acclaim of its predecessor, and in later years, Bush regretted the rush in planning and recording that album to capitalize on the success of her debut. "Wuthering Heights" hit number one on the British charts when it was released in 1978, and Bush immediately arrived. She also began thinking in terms of which of the 200 or so songs she'd written would be on her first recording, and by 1977, she was ready to begin her formal career, which she did with an original song, "Wuthering Heights," based on material from Emily Bronte's novel (and more directly inspired by Bush's seeing the 1970 film directed by Robert Fuest and starring Timothy Dalton and Anna Caulder Marshall). She studied dance, mime, and voice, and continued writing. With Gilmour's help, Bush was signed to EMI Records at age 16, though the company made the decision to break her in slowly. A family friend brought her to the attention of Pink Floyd lead guitarist David Gilmour, who arranged for the 15-year-old to record her first demo.
By the time she was a teenager, she was writing songs of her own. Joseph's Convent Grammar School in Abbey Wood in South London.
She studied piano and violin while attending the St. Kate Bush was born Catherine Bush in 1958. While a direct resemblance can be heard to stars like Tori Amos, Björk, Antony and the Johnsons, or FKA Twigs, the totality of her influence is much deeper, with everyone from John Lydon to Grimes to OutKast's Big Boi citing Bush as a guiding force for their music. Along with the impression her sound made on peers like Peter Gabriel, Eurythmics, Erasure, Prince, and others, echoes of Bush's reality-bending vocal style and imaginative sound sculpting have appeared perennially in every generation of new artists that followed her.
The impact of Bush's music, aesthetic, and approach to art cannot be understated.
Always working at a deliberate pace, Bush took a hiatus between 1993's The Red Shoes and 2005's Aerial, and from there sporadically released new material like 2011's 50 Words for Snow. Quite the opposite played out, however, as these visionary albums broke through worldwide. While the crystal-clear high notes and lush instrumentation of "Wuthering Heights" set the scene for her star to rise, Bush expanded her vision rapidly with the subsequent self-produced albums The Dreaming (1982) and Hounds of Love (1985), both of which saw her embracing rudimentary electronic music production along with more personal lyrical themes and an unflinching commitment to conceptual presentation that put her at high risk for commercial failure. in 1978 with the release of her debut single, "Wuthering Heights," and the subsequent album The Kick Inside, when she was just 19. From the start, Bush's music was ambitious and strange, and her mélange of art rock, pop hooks, theatrical twists, fantastical vocal performances, and complex musicianship resulted in hits. Throughout the entirety of a one-of-a-kind creative journey, Kate Bush has achieved the rare feat of making innovative, fearlessly experimental work that's also wildly successful.
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