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.
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.
Kristen has decided that she wants to stay home and write songs, and we support her in that decision.
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.
We were talking to each other on the bus the other day, ... And someone said 'Apparently, Sugarland is a big deal ...and we're it'.
We are absolutely having a blast. For the time being, we're just sort of carrying the dream of our families and friends in Atlanta.
We're completely and admittedly out of the water here, but that's exciting - that's called living right there,
We worked hard for the past two years to make this happen. You have to be convinced that you're going to succeed. It takes focus, and we never believed that it would turn out any differently.
Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'
You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
I've tried to start my kids on 'Doctor Who,' but they're just not there yet. Someone had given me these TARDIS stick-em notes, so I gave them to Tucker, and he finally put them all over his locker. I'm like, 'You're the coolest fifth grader, ever!'
I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.