Editing Kate Bush (section)

===1958–1972: Early life===
Bush was born on 30 July 1958 at a maternity hospital in [[Bexleyheath]], Kent,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDYDAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 |title=Under the Ivy |author=Graeme Thomson |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |date=2012 |isbn=978-1-78038-146-6 |access-date=2 September 2017 |archive-date=6 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206071729/https://books.google.com/books?id=tDYDAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 |url-status=live }}</ref> to an English doctor, [[general practitioner]] Robert Bush (1920–2008), and Hannah Patricia (née Daly) (1918–1992), an Irish staff nurse, daughter of a farmer in [[County Waterford]].<ref name="Kate Bush and Hounds of Love 2007 p58">Kate Bush and Hounds of Love, Ron Moy, Ashgate, 2007, p. 58</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kate-bush-return-of-the-recluse-316516.html |title=Kate Bush: Return of the recluse |work=[[The Independent]] |author=Sweeting, Adam |date=2 October 2005 |access-date=2 September 2017 |archive-date=21 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921193938/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kate-bush-return-of-the-recluse-316516.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She grew up with her elder brothers, John and Paddy, in a 350-year-old<ref name="Kate Bush and Hounds of Love 2007 p58"/> former farmhouse at [[East Wickham]] near [[Welling]], which neighbours Bexleyheath.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jovanovic |first=Rob |title=Kate Bush: The biography |date=2015 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |location=Google Books |isbn=9780349411255 |page=Ch 2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BVYNCgAAQBAJ&q=Under+the+Ivy:+The+Life+%26+Music+of+Kate+Bush}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/03/20/kate_bush/index.html |title=Kate Bush |work=Salon |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808064727/http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/03/20/kate_bush/index.html |archive-date=8 August 2007}}</ref> Bush came from an artistic background: her mother was an amateur traditional [[Irish dancer]], her father was an amateur pianist, Paddy worked as a musical instrument maker, and John was a poet and photographer. Both brothers were involved in the local [[folk music]] scene.<ref>{{citation |title=Haunting Kate Bush |work=[[NZ Listener]] |date=2 December 1978 |author=David Young}}</ref> She was raised as a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]].<ref name="Q magazine">{{cite news |url=http://www.paradiseplace.org.uk/Kate/Katep15.htm |title=Kate Bush @ Paradise Place – Q interview. |work=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |date=2 September 1999 |access-date=30 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121209043555/http://www.paradiseplace.org.uk/Kate/Katep15.htm |archive-date=9 December 2012 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>

Bush trained at [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths College]] [[karate]] club, where her brother John was a karate instructor. There, she became known as "Ee-ee" because of her squeaky ''[[kiai]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Born Fighter |last=Hazard |first=Dave |year=2007 |publisher=John Blake Publishing |location=London |isbn=978-1-84454-480-6 |page=114}}</ref>

Her family's musical influence inspired Bush to teach herself the piano at the age of 11. She also played the organ in a barn behind her parents' house and studied the violin.<ref>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p3805|pure_url=yes}} |title=Kate Bush Biography|publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> She soon began composing songs, eventually adding her own lyrics.<ref name="Rebel" />