Kristian Bush
Kristian Bush
Kristian Merrill Bushis an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Bush is a former member of the folk rock duo Billy Pilgrim with Andrew Hyra, and is one half of the country music duo Sugarland with Jennifer Nettles. In addition to his work in these two groups, Bush has released one solo album, Southern Gravity, via Streamsound Records in 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth14 March 1970
CityKnoxville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
It was such a conscious effort. The first thing you encounter when you're older is 'When do I get to be happy?' So we just made a decision that we're going to do this. Let's create an environment that's fun, that's happy.
It's just been one of those things where we just put our heads down and started working really hard and it's one of those unique cases where hard work paid off. We've sold more records each week than we did the week before. It's really strange. No one knows what to think of us.
It's pretty cool. I don't know how to balance it other than to say that I had a record deal with a major label when I was right out of college. I was educated very quickly . . . at an age where you were young enough to recover from anything they might do to you. Without that information, I would not be able to truly impart to you how miraculous this is.
The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.
One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.
You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the lyrics that 'show' more than 'tell.' I like to describe what the listener is seeing and let them make up the middle rather than telling them.
I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.
I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.
As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.
I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.