Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer. In 1978, at the age of 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song. Bush has since 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.

Bush began writing songs at 11. She was signed to EMI Records after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour helped produce a demo tape. Her debut album, The Kick Inside, was released in 1978. Bush slowly gained artistic independence in album production and has produced all her studio albums since The Dreaming (1982).

Bush's musical aesthetic is eclectic, and is known to employ varied influences and meld disparate styles, often within a single song or over the course of an album. Her music has primarily been described as art pop, art rock, baroque pop, post-progressive, progressive pop, pop rock, avant-pop and experimental pop. One secret of Bush’s artistry is that she has never feared the ludicrous and has always been willing to experiment, the donkey noises she makes on the track “Get Out Of My House” is a wonderful and borderline hilarious example of this.

Bush is regarded as the first artist to have had a headset with a wireless microphone built for use in music. For her Tour of Life in 1979 she had a compact microphone combined with a self-made construction of wire clothes hangers so she could sing and dance with her hands free. Later, her idea was adopted by other artists such as Janet Jackson, Madonna and Peter Gabriel.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-enduring-incandescent-power-of-kate-bush