Kate Bush

Bush began writing songs at age 11. She was signed to EMI Records after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour helped produce a demo tape. In 1978, she topped the UK Singles Chart with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song. Her debut album, The Kick Inside, was released that year.

Since The Dreaming (1982), Bush has produced all her studio albums. She has released 25 UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", "Babooshka", "Running Up That Hill", "Don't Give Up" (a duet with Peter Gabriel), and "King of the Mountain". All nine of her studio albums reached the UK Top 10, with all but one reaching the top five, including the number one albums Never for Ever (1980), Hounds of Love (1985), and The Whole Story (1986).

She took a hiatus between her seventh and eighth albums, The Red Shoes (1993) and Aerial (2005). In 2011, she released Director's Cut and 50 Words for Snow. In 2014, she performed her concert residency Before the Dawn, her first shows since the Tour of Life in 1979. She was the first British solo female artist to top the UK Albums Chart and the first female artist to enter it at number one.

In 2022, "Running Up That Hill" received renewed attention after appearing in the Netflix series Stranger Things. It became Bush's second UK number one and reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. Its parent album, Hounds of Love, became her first album to top a Billboard albums chart.

Bush has received 14 Brit Awards nominations, winning Best British Female Artist in 1987. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. In 2002, she received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. She was appointed CBE in 2013 and became a Fellow of the Ivors Academy in 2020. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023.