Gavin Rossdale is an English guitarist and actor, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush.
He helped form Bush in 1992; on the band’s separation in 2002, he became the lead singer and guitarist for Institute and later began a solo career.
He was born on October 30, 1965, in Marylebone, London, the United Kingdom to Barbara Stephan and Douglas Rossdale.
Rossdale was educated at the independent Westminster School.
In 2004, after Bush had been on hiatus for two years, Rossdale formed Institute. Their album, Distort Yourself, released on 13 September 2005 achieved moderate success and the single “Bullet Proof Skin” was used in the motion picture Stealth.
In an interview published in November 2008, Rossdale noted that the Institute record was, “for all intents and purposes, a solo record.
On 21 June 2010, it was announced that Bush would return and planned to release a new album. The Sea of Memories was released on 13 September 2011. Bush has since released three more albums; Man on the Run in 2014, Black and White Rainbows in 2017, and The Kingdom in 2020.