While Kate Bush is known as the famous singer who brought us the hit Running up that Hill,  you may not know that she is from south east London.

She was born in 1958 in Bexleyheath and then grew up near Welling.

When she reached school age, she went to St Joseph’s Convent Grammar School, a catholic all-girls school in Abbey Wood.

While she was at school, she made a demo which was turned down by record labels.

But David Gilmour, the guitarist for Pink Floyd, got his hands on her demo and was impressed.

He helped the then 16-year-old Kate to record something more professional and he paid for three tracks.

This tape was sent to an EMI executive and Kate was finally signed to the record label.

Her debut album, The Kick Inside, was then released in 1978, when Kate was 19 and some of the songs on the album were written when she was as young as 13.

 Kate’s debut album sold over one million copies and her debut single, Wuthering Heights, topped charts in the UK and Australia, becoming an international hit.

She became the first British woman to reach number one on the UK charts with a song she had written herself.

According to the Guinness World Records, Kate was the first female artist in pop history to have written every track herself on a million-selling debut album.

She quickly produced a follow-up album, Lionheart, which reached number six in the UK album charts.

However, Kate has expressed since that she feels the album needed more time.

Going from strength to strength, Kate went on to release five more albums (Never for Ever, The Dreaming, Hounds of Love, The Sensual World and The Red Shoes) before taking a 12 year hiatus from releasing music.

In this time, she became a mother and gave birth to her son Albert.

Then, in 2005 she reappeared and released her eighth album Aerial.

She then released two more albums and in 2022, one of her earlier songs, was featured in the popular series Stranger Things and went viral on TikTok, pushing it to number two on the UK single charts.