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Kate Bush

English singer, pianist and songwriter (born 1958)

  • Audience1.3M
  • Fame81.6
  • Momentum15.6
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  • Audience1.3M
  • Fame81.6
  • Momentum15.6
  • United Kingdom rank#72
  • Musicians rank#171
  • Wikipedia154.7K
Born 1958 · age 68United Kingdom
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  • Biggest on YouTube
    1.3M
    @@katebushmusic
  • Wikipedia
    64 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in United Kingdom
    #72
    Musicians
  • Age
    68
    Born 1958
  • Known for
    If These Walls Could S…
    2022
Summary
Updated 2026-08-28

At 19, she wrote and sang her way to UK number one with a song about a gothic novel — then spent the next four decades making records so strange and specific that pop music still hasn't quite caught up.

Biography

About

Catherine Bush was writing songs at 11 and signed to EMI after Pink Floyd's David Gilmour helped fund a demo. In 1978, "Wuthering Heights" made her the first woman to top the UK chart with an entirely self-written song. The Kick Inside followed, and by 1980's Never for Ever she'd become the first British solo woman to hit number one on the album chart. She took full production control from The Dreaming onward, released Hounds of Love in 1985 with "Running Up That Hill", then disappeared for 12 years between The Red Shoes and Aerial. Two more albums arrived in 2011; in 2014 she played her first…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Kate Bush

Kate Bush
said
I think musicians have a responsibility to try and do something that is good. It's so hard. It's very difficult to pull something out of the hat creatively.
— As quoted in "Kate Bush Speaks" by Owen Myers in Fader (23 November 2016)
Kate Bush
said
I'm really very happy if people can connect at all to anything I do. I don't really mind if people mishear lyrics or misunderstand what the story is.
— As quoted in "Kate Bush Speaks" by Owen Myers in Fader (23 November 2016)
Kate Bush
said
David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically.
— Tribute to David Bowie, in "David Bowie, as remembered by…" in The Guardian (17 January 2016)
Kate Bush
said
Now all the shows are over, it's pretty difficult to explain how I feel about it all.
— An open letter to her fans about her "Before the Dawn" concerts (26 August 2014 - 1 October 2014), in "After the Dawn" at her official
Kate Bush
said
For me to get into that creative process I have to have a sort of quiet place that I work from. And if I was living the life of ...
— Interview on The Mark Radcliff Show, BBC Radio 2 (7 November 2005)
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Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Rising
81.6
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum15.6
Historical29.6
Now attention38.4
Source confidence95.0
Completeness90.0
Global rank
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Country rank
#72
Category rank
#171
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence