Keith Urban Biography, Age, Height, Album, Songs, Wife, Kids, Awards, Tour

Keith Urban Biography

Keith Urban (Keith Lionel Urban) is a New Zealand Australian country music singer, songwriter, and record producer born on 26 October 1967 in Whangarei, New Zealand. Urban is also known for his roles as a coach on the Australian version of the singing competition ‘The Voice’ and as a judge on ‘American Idol’.

Keith Urban took guitar lessons from Sue McCarthy and began entering local competitions, in addition to acting in a local theater company.

In 1983 Keith Urban competed at the Australian TV talent show New Faces. A few years later, he began making the inroads into the Australian country music scene, with regular appearances on the Reg Lindsay Country Homestead TV Program, Mike McClellan’s Music Program, and various other TV programs performing duets with local Brisbane girl Jenny Wilson. They won a Golden Guitar award at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Urban also performed regularly on stage at the Northern Suburbs Country Music Club near Caboolture.

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In 1990 Keith Urban was signed to EMI in Australia and released his self-titled debut album.He appeared on the 1990 compilation album Breaking Ground – New Directions in Country Music which was nominated for the 1991 ARIA Award for Best Country Album. He toured as a backup act to Slim Dusty between 1993 and 1994. In the mid-1990s, both people recorded a re-worked duet of Dusty’s classic “Lights on the Hill”. Urban appeared for the first time at the Grand Ole Opry backing Dusty. He also sang backing vocals on INXS’s live album Live Baby Live (1992).

Keith Urban released his self-titled American debut album in 1999 under the production of session pianist Matt Rollings. It was led by the number 18 single “It’s a Love Thing”, followed by the number-four “Your Everything”, which made him the first male New Zealand performer to reach the Top 10 on the US country charts. Its follow-up, “But for the Grace of God”, written by Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s, became his first number 1 hit on the charts. The last single, “Where the Blacktop Ends”, written by Steve Wariner and Allen Shamblin, went to number three. He won the Top New Male Vocalist Award at the 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards and the 2001 Country Music Association’s Horizon Award.

In 2002 he released his second American album ‘Golden Road’.The album’s lead-off single “Somebody Like You” was released in July 2002 and spent six weeks at number-one.The third and fourth singles from the album, “Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me” and “You’ll Think of Me”, went to number-one, with the latter winning him the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2005. On 22 September 2005, Urban’s third studio album Golden Road was certified triple platinum, for sales of three million copies.

Keith Urban The Voice Australia

On 23 November 2011, Keith Urban was confirmed as one of the four vocal coaches in the Australian version of the reality singing competition The Voice. On 14 September 2012, Urban released a statement that he would not be signing back on for season 2.

Keith Urban American Idol

The Fox Broadcasting Company officially announced on 16 September 2012 that Keith Urban would replace Steven Tyler as a judge in season 12 of American Idol alongside Randy Jackson, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj. On 1 August 2013, it was officially confirmed that Urban would return as a judge for season 13. He was joined by former judge Jennifer Lopez and newest judge Harry Connick Jr.. On 23 June 2014, Fox announced that Keith Urban would return to the judging panel for season 14. Urban returned to judge the farewell finale season of American Idol in 2016.

Keith Urban New Album/ Keith Urban Graffiti U

On 27th April 2018 Keith released his tenth studio album, Graffiti U. The album was released via Hit Red and Capitol Records Nashville. Graffiti is neither a song title nor a lyric on the record, but rather a phrase that Urban had come up with. The word “graffiti” came to him while he was working the album, because the process was like graffiti for him.

“I have always loved that word, loved the sound of the word, and have loved that it’s art-driven, graffiti is free and pure, and very personal I thought that this record feels like that to me.”

The album reached number one in Canadian Albums (Billboard), Australian Country Albums (ARIA) and US Top Country Albums (Billboard). It reached number 2 in Australian Albums (ARIA) and US Billboard 200

Tracklist

• Coming Home ft Julia Michaels
• Never Comin Down
• Same Heart
• My Wave ft Shy Carter
• Parallel Line
• Drop Top ft Kassi Ashton
• Way Too Long
• Horses ft Lindsay Ell
• Gemini
• Texas Time
• Love the Way It Hurts
• Female
• Steal My Thunder

Keith Urban Ripcord

In June 2015, Urban released “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16”, as the lead single to his eighth American studio album, Ripcord. In October 2015, Urban teased a new song called “Break on Me”; it was released to the public on 23 October 2015. It reached number one on the Country Airplay chart.

The album has been called Urban’s most experimental album to date. Urban told Rolling Stone, “It was a lot of searching, a lot of experimenting, and when you get to work with as many people as I did, you end up with a lot of stuff.”

Ripcord Songs

• Gone Tomorrow (Here Today)
• John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16
• Wasted Time
• Habit of You
• Sun Don’t Let Me Down ft Nile Rodgers and Pitbull
• Gettin’ in the Way
• Blue Ain’t Your Color
• The Fighter ft Carrie Underwood
• Break on Me
• Boy Gets a Truck
• Your Body
• That Could Still Be Us
• Worry ‘Bout Nothin

Keith Urban Guitar

In October 2013, during a concert in Tampa, Florida, Urban announced he would be offering his own signature package of guitars and accessories, sold through Home Shopping Network (HSN). HSN offered the guitar packages twice in sixth months, resulting in 42,000 sales. A portion of the proceeds benefit The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation and the Grammy Foundation.

Keith Urban Wife/ Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban

Keith Urban met Australian actress Nicole Kidman at G’Day LA, a Hollywood event honoring Australians, in January 2005, but they reportedly did not begin dating until six months later. Kidman and Urban were married on Sunday, 25 June 2006, at the Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick’s Estate, Manly in Sydney.

Keith Urban Kids/ Keith Urban Children

In 2008 they welcomed their first born child Sunday Rose Kidman Urban and in 2010 they had their second born daughter Faith Margaret Kidman Urban.

Keith Urban Age

• Keith Urban was born on October 26, 1967 ( 50 years as at 2017)

Keith Urban Height

• Keith is 1.78 m 5ft 8inches

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Keith Urban Albums

1. Ripcord
2. Golden Road
3. Fuse
4. Defying Gravity
5. Be here
6. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
7. The Ranch
8. Livin’ Right Now
9. Get Closer
10. Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy World Tour Live
11. Greatest Hits: 18 Kids
12. The Story So Far
13. Days Go By
14. ITunes Originals – Keith Urban
15. Keith Urban

Keith Urban Songs

1. A Little Luck Of Our Own
2. Better Life
3. Billy
4. Blue Stranger
5. Blue Ain’t Your Color
6. But For The Grace Of God
7. Break On Me
8. Cop Car
9. Country Comfort
10. Days Go By
11. Desiree
12. Don’t Shut Me Out
13. Freedom’s Finally Mine
14. For You
15. Ghost In His Guitar
16. God’s Been Good To Me
17. Hank Don’t Fail Me Now
18. Homespun Love
19. I told you so
20. I Could Fly
21. I Thought You Knew
22. I Wanna Be Your Everything
23. I Wanna Be Your Man
24. I Wanna Be Your Man (forever)
25. If You Wanna Stay
26. It’s A Love Thing
27. Jeans On
28. Just Some Love
29. Kiss a Girl
30. Live To Love Another Day
31. Little Bit of Everything
32. Making Memories Of Us
33. Man Of The House
34. My Last Name
35. My One Chord Song
36. Nobody Drinks Alone
37. Only You
38. Only You Can Love Me This Way
39. Once in a Lifetime
40. Out On My Own
41. Raining On Sunday
42. Raise ’em up
43. She’s Gotta Be
44. Some Days You Gotta Dance
45. Somebody Like You
46. Somewhere in My Car
47. Put You in a Song
48. Song For Dad
49. Stupid Boy
50. Stuck In The Middle
51. Tangled Up In Love
52. The Hard Way
53. The Fighter
54. These Are The Days
55. Tonight I Wanna Cry
56. Walkin’ The Country
57. Walking In The Country
58. Wasted Time
59. What About Me
60. Whenever I Run
61. Where The Blacktop Ends
62. Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me
63. You Are My Better Half
64. You Can’t Hide Beautiful
65. You Look Good In My Shirt
66. You Won
67. You’ll Think Of Me
68. You’re My Better Half
69. You’re Not Alone Tonight
70. You’re Not My God
71. You’re The Only One
72. Your Everything

Keith Urban Drug Use

While living in Nashville, Urban became a frequent user of cocaine. After reaching a personal low point in 1998, he became determined to stop using the drug and checked into Cumberland Heights, a treatment center in Nashville.

On 19 October 2006, Urban checked himself into the Betty Ford Center in California. On 20 October, Urban issued a statement saying: “I deeply regret the hurt this has caused Nicole and the ones who love and support me. One can never let one’s guard down on recovery, and I’m afraid that I have.” On 18 January 2007, Urban announced his completion of rehab and his plans to go on tour to promote his album, Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing.

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Keith Urban Twitter

THANK YOU for two killer shows, Gilford!!! ? We’ll see you tonight, Canandaigua! ? @kelseaballerini @larkinpoe pic.twitter.com/2tZ0kOYKjr

— Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) July 8, 2018

Keith Urban Acoustic – Coming Home

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