Artist: Kate Bush
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Electronic
ROck: Alternative
Vocal
R&B: Soul
Discography:
Aerial (CD 2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Aerial (CD 1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Aerial
Year: 2005
Tracks: 16
The Red Shoes
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
This Woman's Work CD2
Year: 1990
Tracks: 14
This Woman's Work CD1
Year: 1990
Tracks: 15
The Sensual World
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
The Whole Story
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
The Whole Story
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
Hounds Of Love
Year: 1983
Tracks: 12
The Dreaming
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Never For Ever
Year: 1980
Tracks: 11
The Kick Inside
Year: 1978
Tracks: 13
Lionheart
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
One of the nearly successful and popular solo female performers of the past 20 age to arrive out of England, Kate Bush is too one of the most unusual, with her keening vocals and remarkably literate and complex body of songs. As a girl, Catherine Bush studied piano and violin while attending the St. Joseph's Convent Grammar School in Abbey Wood in South London. She too amused herself playing an organ in the barn behind her parents' theatre. By the time she was a teenager, Bush was writing songs of her own. A household supporter, Ricky Hopper, heard her music and brought Bush to the attention of Pink Floyd confidential information guitarist David Gilmour, wHO arranged for the 15-year-old Bush to record her first base demonstration. With Gilmour's help, Bush was signed to EMI Records at eld 16, though the company made the decision to bring her along slow. She studied dance, pantomimist, and voice, and continued writing. She too began thinking in footing of which of the cc or so songs she'd written would be part of her first transcription, and by 1977, she was ready to begin her formal life history, which she did with an original sung dynasty, "Wuthering Heights," based on material from Emily Bronte's novel (and more direct inspired by Bush's visual perception the 1970 film directed by Robert Fuest and prima Timothy Dalton and Anna Caulder Marshall).
The strain would sic a pattern for often of her future work, which was filled with literary and other external thematic allusions, and sometimes made tied fans feel as though her lyrics ideally would come with footnotes -- heady hooey for a teenage stone singer in the later '70s. Her precocity was demonstrated by the plan of attack she took to the birdcall, advisedly poignant what she felt -- in her mid-teens -- was the interpreter of a apparitional Cathy, whom she regarded as a severe, grasping digit, arrival out to her lover even from the grave. "Wuthering Heights" rose to number one on the British charts when it was released in 1978, and Bush became an overnight whiz at the age of 19. Her debut album, The Kick Inside, a collection of material that she had written from 15 forwards, some of it displaying extremely provocative and advanced sexual references and images, reached number trio and sold over a million copies in the U.K.
Bush's irregular album, Lionheart, reached number six-spot but didn't accomplish anything like the sales totals or decisive applaud of its predecessor, and in later on eld Bush regretted the kick involved in planning and recording that record album to capitalise on the success of her debut. In England during the spring of 1979, Bush embarked on what proved to be the only concert tour of her career to date, playing a serial of shows highlighted by 17 costume changes, heaps of dance, and complex lighting. Bush was besides apparently the first base rock performing artist (at least since the days in the early '60s when Sweden's Spotnicks experimented with a more rude translation of the applied science) to have enjoyment of a radio voice mike, which freed her up to move just about the microscope stage as few singers earlier her had been capable of doing. The tour proved both wearing and financially disastrous, and ever since then Bush has avoided whatever simply the most circumscribed live concert appearances, primarily in documentation of certain charitable causes. This absence from the concert stage and the extended periods -- much as practically as trey to basketball team geezerhood -- between albums, and the dense, reference-filled nature of her songs and lyrics, experience also resulted in Bush becoming one of the more enigmatic pop artists in England since the Beatles; her relatively private personal life has only added to the mystique encompassing her. But her relative distance and her unusual sound and approach to down music besides made it more hard to "explicate" or encapsulate her figure out in a few wrangle to the uninitiated, specially in America, where radiocommunication play and television exposure proven practically harder to get along by during the number 1 few years of her career.
By the start of the eighties, Bush was established as one of the most ambitious and geek artists ever so to have achieved success in rock music, with a kitchen stove of sounds and interests that perpetually challenged listeners, panoptic literature, artwork, poetry, cinema, history, and all style of other subjects. "Babooshka" (1980) became her showtime Top Five individual since "Wuthering Heights," and her subsequent album, Never for Ever, entered the British charts at issue one in September of 1980. During this period, Bush began co-producing her have work, a critical gradation toward refining her sound and as well establishing her independence from her track record company. Although 1982's The Dreaming reached issue iII, the single "At that place Goes a Tenner" failed to arrive at the charts, and near observers felt that Bush had lost her audience. Bush was unfazed by the criticism, and even began pickings steps to have herself more than independent of her record label by establishing a domicile studio, this part in reaction to EMI's huge studio charges on her previous records -- from the mid-'80s forwards, Bush was free to spend her time at her leisure working out her sound, and it seemed to pay sour with her side by side release.
After two years' absence, Bush re-emerged in August of 1985 with "Linear Up That Hill," which became her second biggest-selling single. The resultant record album, Hounds of Love, the first record made at her 48-track home base studio, debuted on the British charts at the numeral one billet in September of 1985 and remained in that respect for a total month, and shortly after "Running Up That Hill" gave Bush her long-awaited American breakthrough, reach number 30 on Billboard's charts. By this clock time, in England Bush was ranked alongside of Madonna in footing of her musical wallop, "Running Up That Hill" having bumped "Like a Virgin" out of the number one chart position. The changes in her sound and her development as a writer/performer were showcased in the January 1987 best-of collection The Whole Story, for which she also re-recorded the booster cable vocal for "Wuthering Heights" to bring the vocal more in short letter with her sound as it was in her 1920s (she afterwards admitted that she would have liked to have done something similar with several of her other early recordings done when she was in her teens). The album also featured her modish single, "Experimentation IV," whose lyrics were built on a scientific discipline fable plot line that was echoed in the telecasting, which Bush directed with a cast of familiar flick performers, and which came out like a miniaturized musical interpretation of a Quatermass-like hair-raiser. That like year, Bush south Korean won the Best British Female Artist honor at the sixth-annual BRIT Awards in London.
In October of 1989, Bush's first new album in almost four age, The Sensual World, reached the British numeral deuce spot, and received an unprecedented promotional press in America, where she signed with Columbia Records for her next releases. Bush's next record album, The Red Shoes (1993), elysian by the 1948 photographic film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, debuted in the American Top 30, the first time one of her albums had of all time charted that heights -- Bush made a rare personal appearance in New York that December, an autograph signing at Tower Records on the Lower East Side, and the resulting descent of admirers stretched nigh six blocks, and compulsory her to broaden her appearance by respective hours (she was still delighted and astounded by the procession five hours into the upshot). It would be some other 12 years before Bush would take up her transcription calling. Rumors of a unexampled record album began circulating in the late '90s. During this time, Bush became a mother and quietly retreated to her countryside home on Berkshire, Reading, England. In 2005, Bush finally released her followup to The Red Shoes, the double-disc congeal Aerial.
