Catherine Bush CBE accumulated great fortune through her forty-year music career. However, she does not talk about her investments and real estate due to her preference for her private life. People consider her a perfectionist, but she denies that.
Instead, Kate agrees to have made mistakes, from which she learns a lot. She walked down the aisle with Danny McInstosh and gave birth to her son, Albert, in 1998. Thus, she married only once, though she had a relationship with Del Palmer during the 1970s.
Kate has an official website where she sells unlimited editions of her reissued albums in physical formats for people who want to feel music in their hands. She shared a photo of her first book, How To Be Invisible (published in December 2018), on her Instagram account.
Similarly, Kate uses her Instagram account to advertise her other products. Several listeners could not guess what would come next in her song, and a music journalist labeled her the ‘queen of art-pop.’ The only artist ahead of her was Elvis Presley.
Net Worth
Kate Bush’s Net Worth is $40 million as of 2024. Thanks to her record production, music, and dancing. The Netflix series Stranger Things (2022) played her song, Running Up That Hill, and initially paid her over $2.3 million.
The song was streamed on Spotify fifty-seven million times, and Kate got $0.03 to $0.05 for every stream. Thus, she earned over $200,000 per week in 2020 only through a single song. She lives in a house in South Oxfordshire purchased for $7.8 million in 2017.
Kate owns songwriting, publishing, and licensing rights over all her songs, which remains optional for an artist and helps her have a higher income. Apart from her music sales, she earns from touring, composing film and television soundtracks, commissions by composing music for other artists, and merchandise.
Career
Kate belongs to a family of artists because her father was an amateur pianist, her mother was an amateur dancer, her brother was a photographer and poet, and another brother made musical instruments. Kate’s parents handled these hobbies with their medical profession. So, we can guess where her passion for music came from.
Kate began writing her own songs at eleven but got rejected by multiple record labels until she came under the sight of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his friend Andrew Powell. They helped her make a professional demo tape and get her first contract. They also produced her first two albums before she could sign her first deal.
Kate’s debut album was The Kick Inside (1978) when she was nineteen, though she wrote some of its songs at thirteen. Overall, she wrote all its tracks, and millions of copies were sold in the UK. She made a Guinness World record for that.
Kate went on a six-week-long tour in 1979, which turned out too exhausting due to the technical equipment attached to the dress. She had to dance while singing and wearing a dress with lighting. She is known for using diverse music genres within a single song or album.
Kate went only on one tour throughout her life in 1979, which has different narratives. Some think she might have quit touring due to the accidental death of a lighting engineer, while some call it flying anxiety.
Style
Kate’s songs contain melodrama, joy, and melancholy. She did not hesitate to touch-sensitive or controversial topics through her songs. For instance, they are related to incest, gay romance, suicide, death of fœtus, comedy, horror, dark humor, and more.
Several musicians and singers, such as Tupac Shakur, Sinéad O’Connor, Lady Gaga, Nigel Godrich, Fiona Apple, and more, admire Kate. Some people began loving the human female voice due to her. Her songs allegedly sound fresh and indicate that she does whatever she wants to.
Kate collaborated with several musicians and singers, such as Midge Ure, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Alan Stivell, and more. She wrote some songs touching the political and social aspects. However, she claimed to touch on the emotional aspect behind those topics.
Kate was asked about her political beliefs in 1985, but she clearly stated she understood nothing about politics. However, Kate vocally supported Ukraine during the Ukraine-Russia war in 2022.
