[1] She was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and resides in Los Angeles, California.

She was an executive producer of the 1985 National Blues Music Awards.

Bush studied philosophy at North Carolina A&T State University.

[4][5] Sharon Crews (as she was then known) later anchored news and weather at CBS and NBC network affiliates[6] in North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively, before becoming an Atlanta, Georgia, correspondent and executive producer for Black Entertainment Television.

[7] Bush worked as a morning news anchor at WGHP-TV, the then-ABC affiliate in High Point, North Carolina.