Gavin Rossdale Gushes Over Kids’ Musical Gifts: ‘I’m Not Even the Best Singer in My House Anymore’ (Exclusive)

Gavin Rossdale may be a Grammy-nominated rockstar, but he’s not afraid to admit that he’s no longer the best musician in his household.

“What happens with me now in my house [is] they’ll play their songs — what they’re doing,” Rossdale, 59, exclusively told Us Weekly of his children on Monday, July 21, in celebration of I Beat Loneliness, BUSH’s 10th studio album, released July 18.

“Kingston will do that — play an amazing song,” he continued. “Zuma has begun recording — he’s out of control. I’m not even the best singer in my house anymore. It’s super annoying.”

He added, “So, I take pride in listening to everything they’re doing and not sharing anything that I’m doing with them.”

Rossdale shares kids Kingston, Zuma and Apollo with his ex wife and fellow singer Gwen Stefani. (The pair split in 2015 after 12 years of marriage.) He is also dad to daughter Daisy from a previous relationship.

While thrilled about BUSH’s latest album, Rossdale told Us that he doesn’t push his music on his children.

“I’m really careful not to push,” he explained. “I’m their dad — father, not friend.”

He continued, “Now, if they discover it independently, that’s when it’s, like, I don’t want it to suck.”

Instead of “pushing” his new or previous records on his children, Rossdale told Us he would rather his children “discover it independently.”

“I have four kids with really good taste — really good taste,” he gushed, before admitting that he did send his daughter, Daisy, the band’s new record.

“She goes, ‘Oh, no, we already have it. It’s amazing. Incredible. Thank you, it’s so good.’ But I don’t like to push it on the others,” he added of his additional children. “I just want ‘em to discover it. It’s much better. And then I’m their dad. I have a different job. I’m like the guy that makes sure they eat.”

While Rossdale makes it a point to just be “dad” to his children, he can’t keep his iconic discography entirely hidden from his family. While recently remixing his 1994 hit “Machine Head” in his at-home studio next to his son Zuma’s room, he realized how much his children do, in fact, appreciate his music — well, at least most of the time.

“So I put it together and my son Zuma came in. He goes, ‘What you working on?’ I was like, ‘Check it out.’ And I did think he’d be impressed,” he said. “This is why I don’t do this stuff normally. So I played it. I said, ‘Yeah, just put this together, no big.’ He goes — and he’s [giving] me the poo face — he goes, ‘You’re not putting that out, are you?’ I said, ‘Well, I was thinking of it. Why, is there something particularly wrong with it?’ He goes, ‘‘Machine Head’ is legendary. I dunno about that.’ And then left the room. Destroyed me. Killed me.”