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Kate Bush
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"New album "Aerial" in stores now!"
Bexleyheath,
United Kingdom
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| Member Since | 9/18/2005 | | Band Website | katebush.com | | Influences | 
Even in her earliest works where the piano was a primary instrument, she weaves together many diverse influences, melding classical music, rock, and a wide range of ethnic and folk sources, to produce a uniquely impressive amalgam, and this has continued throughout her career.
| | Sounds Like | More than one reviewer has used the term surreal to describe much of her music, for many of the songs have a melodramatic emotional and musical surrealism that defies easy categorization.
It has been observed that even the more joyous of the pieces is often tinged with traces of melancholy, and even the most sorrowful have elements of a unique vitality struggling against all that would oppress it. The unapologetic use of her voice as an instrument to convey a broad range of emotional intensity and subtlety is one thing that characterizes nearly all that she does.
Kate Bush has tackled sensitive and taboo subjects long before it has become fashionable to do so; Kashka From Baghdad is a song about a gay male couple; Breathing explores the results of nuclear fallout. Her lyrics are highly literate and reference a wide array of subject matter, often relatively obscure, such as Wilhelm Reich in Cloudbusting, or G. I. Gurdjieff in Them Heavy People.
The lush arrangements, complex production and intelligent, thoughtful lyrics can sometimes mask the fact that Kate Bush is a peculiarly witty writer and that comedy is not only a big influence on her - she has cited Monty Python, Woody Allen, Fawlty Towers and The Young Ones as particular favourites - but also a significant component of her work.
| | Record Label | EMI | | Type of Label | Major |
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| About ktbush |
Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush on 30 July 1958 in Bexleyheath, Kent (now part of Greater London) is a British singer-songwriter known for her expressive 3-octave voice, idiosyncratic and literary lyrics, and eclectic and meticulous musical and production style. She has acquired a large number of extremely devoted fans since her debut in 1978 with the surprise hit "Wuthering Heights", which was number 1 in the British music charts for 4 weeks.
While still attending St. Joseph's convent school in Welling, South East London where she studied the piano and violin, Kate Bush caught the attention of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, who helped fund her first demo sessions. She signed a contract with EMI when she was 16. However, in the first two years of her contract, Bush did not release an album, but instead completed her time at school and had lessons in dancing, mime, and music. During this time, Bush wrote and made demos of close to 200 songs, which today can be found on bootleg recordings (often known as the Phoenix Recordings). She also performed at various small venues in and near London under the name KT Bush Band.
Her first album, The Kick Inside, was released in 1978, and featured songs she had written during the previous two years, including the single Wuthering Heights, which topped the UK charts and became an international hit. A period of intense work followed. A second album, Lionheart was quickly recorded; Bush has often expressed disatisfaction with it, feeling she needed more time to get it right. Then there was the endless promotional work and an exhausting tour, the only one of her career. Kate disliked the exposure and the celebrity lifestyle, feeling it was taking her away from her main priority: making music. A slow and steady withdrawal from public life began as she moved into producing her own work with Never For Ever and developed a perfectionistic, painstaking approach to making music which would see her ensconced in the studio for long periods and only needing to face the glare of the press when the subsequent albums were released. Wild rumours would fly while she was engaged in her work - usually that she had ballooned in weight or had gone mad. Then she would re-emerge for a brief period, slim and seemingly sane, before retreating to the studio once more.
A pattern began to form in the eighties where Kate would disappear for up to four years while she honed her new material until it was ready for release. After the release of The Red Shoes in 1993 there was no reason to suppose that she wouldn't reappear in three or four years with another set of songs. But the period of silence that followed her seventh studio album was much longer than anyone had anticipated.
Bush dropped out of the public eye for many years, although her name occasionally cropped up in the media in connection with rumours of a new album release. There were also unconfirmed reports that she had suffered a nervous breakdown. The press continued to speculate wildly about what she was up to and the usual scurrilous rumours appeared. The press attempted to paint Kate as an eccentric recluse, sometimes drawing a cliched comparison with Miss Haversham, from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. In reality, she was simply trying to give her young son a normal, happy childhood, away from the world of show business: Bush gave birth to Albert, known as Bertie, fathered by her guitarist and current partner Danny MacIntosh, in 1999. She didn't release the news of his birth to the press and it was over two years before the story broke. Her quite normal decision to protect her son was depicted as eccentric in the article that reported the news. On the few occasions she has spoken to the press since Kate has made it clear how happy motherhood has made her.
On 31 August 2005, EMI put speculation to rest and confirmed that Kate's eighth studio album Aerial will be released on a double CD on 7 November 2005 internationally and 8th November in the USA, after a single release "King of the Mountain" on 24 October. The song will be available for download on 27 September on all major internet pay-for-download services including Napster, Rhapsody, and iTunes.
Bio courtesy of wikipedia.org
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Niki Khan
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10/8/2006 5:37 PM
Hi Kate
I love your music! Always have.
How do you like mine?!
Niki
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Track Ho
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10/8/2006 5:34 PM
Thank You for the Add!your album "Never Forever" was my first album and I have been listening to you ever since. I am glad your on my space! Be Good XXX
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~bLuEyEdHoTtiE~
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10/8/2006 4:44 PM
GREAT MUSIC!!!THANX FOR THE ADD!!
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lua ju/ en construction
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10/8/2006 4:29 PM
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WHITE RUSSIANS
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10/8/2006 4:19 PM
Bonjour!!!
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john
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10/8/2006 4:03 PM
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Kitty Hawke
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I LOVE YOU!
send this to 12 of your best friends that you absolutley LOVE TO DEATH!
If you get this back you know that you are loved. Good luck
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Starship Albatross
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10/8/2006 4:02 PM
Greetings from the Albatross,out here in Ariel space!
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Ingrid
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10/8/2006 4:01 PM
Thanks for the add Kate..nice to see you back...Ing x
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Cedar Falls
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10/8/2006 2:20 PM
Cedar Falls now have a new track available on their page. It's called 'Ballad of a lonely heart'. Let us know what you think!!
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Rick
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10/8/2006 1:33 PM
Just saying hallo to a classy lady...cheers Kate
Rick
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zula
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10/8/2006 12:52 PM
Hi Kate.
Just passing by to say hello.
I like the new picture.
Take care.
Peace xx
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Suna
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10/8/2006 11:50 AM
Thanks for adding me, The Dreaming is one of my favourite albums, any chance of putting on one of those songs?
Stay Well.
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Meat Puppet's Garage Gig
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10/8/2006 11:14 AM
Always deeply intrigued with your style and musical grace. Never since Annie haslam have I heard such a voice.
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The Good Case
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10/8/2006 10:59 AM
The Good case is recording a new album and will put new songs on my space. Check them out, leave a comment and help decide on which songs will make the album.
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Bronwyn Gaunson with SynKronicity
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10/8/2006 10:55 AM
I have always loved your work,
and I am pleased to have my work compared often with yours.
Come an have a listen some time.
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laura mura
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10/8/2006 10:53 AM
your music is important to me, thanks
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Camera Camera
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10/8/2006 8:55 AM
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Lindsay
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10/8/2006 7:45 AM
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Common side FX
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10/8/2006 5:35 AM
Blessed star! Give thanks for the crucial, sounds, shapes, colors!
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Cyoakha Grace
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10/8/2006 5:18 AM
oh I love your work always have from the moment I heard it....way back...before I sang...the first time someone said i sounded like you i cried in joy...now, of course, i have my own sound, years later but still site you, Joni, Laurie as true inspirational female composers and singers way up high, something for us mid level women to aspire to, look up to. thank you for all your beautiful music, it changed my life. cyoakha grace
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Arturo
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10/8/2006 5:15 AM
Hey, I need to know if someone how can I reach Kate or write her, it´s MUSICALLY VERY IMPORTANT... thanks a lot!
Arturo
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Marissa Skovron
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10/8/2006 5:03 AM
Kate...
You have been a profound inspiration - thank you for sharing all your wonderful music with the world!
A fellow singer/songwriter/pianist,
Marissa xx
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christ-y
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10/8/2006 4:25 AM
 Thanks for the ad
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madame chang
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10/8/2006 3:32 AM
you are an exquisite creature
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Quiet Light Tide
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10/8/2006 2:13 AM
Kate Bush is a goddess of divine inspiration. Thank you for being who you are - and actually living it out.
- Annemarie/Quiet Light Tide
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Greg
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10/8/2006 2:01 AM
Thank you for the add.This woman's work is a masterpiece.When I listen to this song it reminds me of all the beautiful women who are in my life, my mother, my wife,and of those who are deceased, my grandmother and three of my aunts.It reminds me of how grateful I am for their being in my life.It truly is a song from the heart.Thanks again,Greg
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Maria
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10/8/2006 1:42 AM
The genius which is Kate Bush
I’ve been listening to your music since I was ten years old. Each time has transported me into a mystical world of romance, adventure and sheer pleasure. Keep being an inspiration, and I’ll always look for you when ♫I turn to my computer♫
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KC
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10/8/2006 12:34 AM
There aren't many things in this world that my father and I can do together, but we can sit and listen to your music for hours. We can talk and actually listen to each other.
Thank you.
Keep doing what you are doing!
Kate Conroy
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Letter from a friend
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10/7/2006 11:04 PM
Beautiful page kate x
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Cassandra
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10/7/2006 11:02 PM
Thanks for the add kate.
I think you are brillant and very talented singer.
Lots of love
From
Cassandra Davies
xxxxxxxxx
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Surfpatrouille
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10/7/2006 10:12 PM
a sunny hello from germany.
you´re great!!!
surf surf surf
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Rhiannon, The Goddess of All That Rocks
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10/7/2006 10:10 PM
I bought Aerial today. I heard Nocturn on your profile and couldn't get it out of my head for days.
Thanks for bringing your music back to us. <3
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Jahresseiten
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10/7/2006 9:51 PM
i love you since wuthering heights. your music just means so much to me.
thank you very much for putting me on the list. helenah
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Art Sebastian
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10/7/2006 9:30 PM
Thanx for adding, honored to be added to your list.
Would be even more honored if you'd take a listen to what I do.
Grew up with ur music!
Greetz
Art
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Dante Sadott
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10/7/2006 9:22 PM
It is a pleasure to SAY HI.
Greeting you from my home Harmony Studios
Thanx for the ADD ,
and may God continue to Bless your life.
HARMONY DSPR (STUDIOS)
THE HARMONY OF THE ART AND THE DEVINE
The best Christian Studio in south of California.
l mejor STUDIO Cristiano del sur de California.
55.00 Dls p/hr STUDIO / ING.
Who then , can separate us from the love of Christ?
can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or gunger
or proverty or danger or dead?
for i am certain that nothing can separate us frome his love ;
neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly
rulers or powers , neither the present nor the future, neither
the world above nor the world below
there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to
separate us from the love of God which is our through
Christ Jesus our Lord
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Did
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10/7/2006 8:31 PM
thanks for l'add super women.
DID
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»-(¯`v´¯)-» HëvÅ
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10/7/2006 8:27 PM
Kate,
I love the new profile photo. You're a beauty, always.
XO
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Angela
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10/7/2006 8:00 PM
...thanks for adding me:) Your music is great. I love your songs!!!
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(¯`·._.·Cora·._.·´¯)
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10/7/2006 7:14 PM
Thank you for the Extended hand of Space Friendship.
Love, Light, Truth,
In Life, In Dreams, Indeed!
Your Music is an interesting Journey. I like it.
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Richard Garen
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10/7/2006 6:52 PM
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MikeTee
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10/7/2006 6:42 PM
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kenybianca
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10/7/2006 6:24 PM
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THE MIXER MAN UK PRODUCER/REMIXER
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10/7/2006 5:36 PM
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Ric The Photographer
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10/7/2006 4:38 PM
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Skellingtina
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10/7/2006 4:08 PM
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Bob
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10/7/2006 4:01 PM
Check this out, it's a cool map of everyone who visits this profile: 
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J.R.C.Richardson
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10/7/2006 3:57 PM
Eeeeyooooore.
x jrc
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agostino
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10/7/2006 3:19 PM
Hello Kate,thank you for the add and for your music.
A big hello from Italy
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Asleep
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10/7/2006 1:43 PM
If your into bands like Depeche Mode, Morrissey, A-ha, New Order, Coldplay etc
you should check out the new Norwegian band ASLEEP.
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ORDER ALBUM ONLINE NOW!
ORDER YOUR COPY OF ASLEEPS DEBUT ALBUM:
'DAYS OF PURE DELIGHT'
GO TO ASLEEPS MYSPACE TO PLACE YOUR ORDER.
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Greetings from Oslo, Norway
A S L E E P
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