Keith Urban
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Born | Keith Lionel Urbahn 26 October 1967 , Northland, New Zealand |
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Years active | 1990–present |
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Children | 2 |
Awards | Full list |
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Origin | Caboolture, Queensland, Australia |
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Formerly of | The Ranch |
Website | keithurban |
Keith Lionel Urban
Urban has released 11 studio albums (one of which was released only in Australia), as well as one album with the Ranch. He has charted 37 singles on the US Hot Country Songs chart, 18 of which went to number one, counting a duet with Brad Paisley ("Start a Band") and the 2008 single "You Look Good in My Shirt". Urban also worked with numerous artists from different music genres, such as Pink, Nelly Furtado, Jason Derulo, Julia Michaels, and country artists like Dolly Parton, The Chicks, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Eric Church, and Reba McEntire.
In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, charting four singles in Australia before moving to the United States the following year. He started a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Nashville and charted two singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Still signed to Capitol, Urban made his solo American debut in 1999 with a second eponymous album. Certified platinum in the US by the RIAA, it produced his first number one on the Hot Country Songs chart with "But for the Grace of God". "Somebody Like You", the first single from his second Capitol album Golden Road (2002), was named by Billboard as the biggest country hit of the 2000s decade. The album's fourth single, "You'll Think of Me" featuring his nephew and fellow country artist Rory Gilliatte, earned him his first Grammy Award. 2004's Be Here, his third American album became his highest-selling album, being certified 4× Platinum. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released in 2006, containing "Once in a Lifetime" as well as his second Grammy Award-winning song, "Stupid Boy". A greatest hits package titled Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in late 2007. Defying Gravity and Get Closer were released on 31 March 2009 and 16 November 2010, respectively. In September 2013, he released the album Fuse, which produced four more number ones on the Country Airplay chart. "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" was released in June 2015[8] as the lead single of his eighth American studio album, Ripcord. The album later produced the Country Airplay chart number-one hits "Break on Me", "Wasted Time", and "Blue Ain't Your Color", with the latter also becoming Urban's longest-reigning number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, spending 12 weeks atop the chart. His tenth album, Graffiti U, was released in 2018 and includes the Top 10 hit "Coming Home". His eleventh album The Speed of Now Part 1 was released in 2020 and includes the global hit "One Too Many" with Pink, in addition to Country Airplay top ten hits "We Were" and "God Whispered Your Name".
Urban was a coach on the Australian version of the singing competition
Early life
Urban was born on 26 October 1967 in Whangārei, New Zealand.[1] He is the youngest son of Marienne and Robert "Bob" Urbahn (Urbański).[3] At two years of age, Urban moved with his parents to Caboolture, Queensland, Australia.[9] Expressing an early interest in music, at four he was given a ukulele, and at six he took up the guitar. From an early age Urban's influences reflected the tastes of his parents, who enjoyed country music.[10] His father, who owned a convenience store, put an ad for a guitar teacher in his shop window.[11] Urban took lessons from his teacher, Sue McCarthy,[12] and began entering local competitions, in addition to acting in a local theatre company.[1] Urban has stated that his guitar playing was influenced by two rock players, Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) and Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac).
In 1983, Urban was a contestant on the Australian TV talent show
Musical career
1990–1998: early years
In 1990, Urban signed with EMI in Australia and released his self-titled debut album.[1] 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.[14] 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.[15] He also sang backing vocals on INXS's 1991 single "Shining Star".[16]
Urban moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1992. The next year, he appeared in the music video for Alan Jackson's rendition of "Mercury Blues".[17] He and Vernon Rust co-wrote "Jesus Gets Jealous of Santa Claus" on Toby Keith's 1995 album Christmas to Christmas,[18] 4 Runner's 1996 single "That Was Him (This Is Now)",[19] he played guitar on Garth Brooks' album Double Live (Garth Brooks album) and "Tangled Up in Love" on the Raybon Brothers' 1997 self-titled album.[20] In 1997, he formed a band known as The Ranch, which included drummer Peter Clarke and bassist Jerry Flowers. The Ranch released one self-titled album for Capitol Records Nashville and charted two singles on the Hot Country Songs charts that year: "Walkin' the Country" and "Just Some Love".[21] Throughout the late 1990s, Urban also played guitar on several other artists' albums, such as Paul Jefferson,[22] Tim Wilson, and Charlie Daniels.
1999–2006: Keith Urban, Golden Road and Be Here
Urban released his
Urban released his second American album, Golden Road, in 2002. Of the 13 songs included on this album, Urban produced seven himself and co-produced the other six with Dann Huff.[25] The album's lead-off single, "Somebody Like You", was released in July 2002 and spent six weeks at number one. The second single was the number three hit "Raining on Sunday" which Radney Foster had previously released as a single from his 1998 album See What You Want to See.[26] 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.[27] In 2002, Urban posed nude for Playgirl. On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, he said that he regretted posing nude despite not showing any full frontal nudity.[28]
In 2004, Urban performed "Lights on the Hill" at the Tamworth tribute concert following the death of Australian country singer Slim Dusty, an artist whom he had both written for and covered.[29][30]
In 2005, Urban performed in front of European audiences for the first time. In May, he supported
On 21 August 2006, Urban's "Once in a Lifetime" debuted at No. 17, setting what was then a new record for the highest-debuting country single in the 62-year history of the Hot Country Songs chart.[36] Despite the high debut, the song peaked at number 6.[27] Following it was "Stupid Boy", which was co-written by Sarah Buxton, went to number 3, and won him his second Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2007.[27] The album's next two singles, "I Told You So" and "Everybody", respectively peaked at numbers two and five.[27] Urban released his first greatest hits collection Greatest Hits: 18 Kids on 20 November 2007. This compilation contains all of his Top 10 hits, along with two new songs, "Got It Right This Time (The Celebration) and a cover of Steve Forbert's "Romeo's Tune"."
2007–2009: Love, Pain, & The Whole Crazy Thing, Greatest Hits: 18 Kids and Defying Gravity
In January 2008, Urban embarked on the "Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy Carnival Ride World Tour" with fellow country singer
Urban announced that the lead single for his fifth studio album would be titled "
Urban's 2009 Escape Together tour, supporting the Defying Gravity album, featured many big-name opening acts, such as Taylor Swift, Sugarland, and Jason Aldean. On 27 June 2009, Urban filmed a video for the song, "Only You Can Love Me This Way", at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa. In 2009, Urban was also a judge for the eighth annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.
2010–2017: Get Closer, Fuse and Ripcord
In May 2010, Urban entered the studio to begin work on a new album.
On 10 April 2012, Urban was invited to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry by Vince Gill at the third annual We're All for the Hall benefit concert which Urban organised. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on 21 April 2012.[40]
Urban plays guitar on Tim McGraw's early-2013 single "Highway Don't Care", which also features a guest vocal from Taylor Swift. This song is the third single from McGraw's album Two Lanes of Freedom.
On 13 May 2013, Urban released the single "Little Bit of Everything", produced by Nathan Chapman.[41] It was the first single from his eighth studio album, Fuse, which was released on 10 September 2013.[42] The official music video for "Little Bit Of Everything" debuted on VEVO on 25 July 2013. Unlike his previous albums, Urban co-produced with 10 other producers on this album.[43][44] The album's second single, "We Were Us", is a duet with Miranda Lambert. It reached number one on the Country Airplay chart in December 2013. The third single, "Cop Car", was released in January 2014. A fourth single, "Somewhere in My Car" was released in June 2014. A fifth single, a duet with Eric Church, "Raise 'Em Up," was released to country radio on 26 January 2015. It reached number 1 on Country Airplay in May 2015.
In June 2015, Urban released "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16", as the lead single to his eighth American studio album, Ripcord.[45] In October 2015, Urban teased a new song called "Break on Me"; it was released to the public on 23 October. It reached number one on the Country Airplay chart. On 22 September 2015, Urban celebrated the tenth anniversary of his third studio album Golden Road being certified triple platinum, for sales of three million copies of his record.[46] "Wasted Time" was released as the album's third single and it went on to reach the number one spot on the Country Airplay chart. "Blue Ain't Your Color" was released as the album's fourth single and became a huge hit for Urban. It topped the Hot Country Songs chart as well as the Country Airplay Chart, spending 12 weeks at number one on the former chart. "The Fighter", a duet with Carrie Underwood, was released as the fifth single from the album.
In 2016, Urban was selected as one of 30 artists to perform on "
2017–present: Graffiti U and The Speed of Now Part 1
On 8 November 2017, Urban released a new song titled "
It was announced that Urban's tenth studio album would be titled
On 16 May 2019, Keith Urban released a brand new single, "We Were", a reflective mid-tempo ode to mischievous youth. "I like the idea that life just happens. At some point, whether in the moment or not, you just gotta go with it", he said.[54] The track was co-written by Eric Church.[55] On 24 November 2019, Urban played the halftime show at the Canadian Football League's Grey Cup championship in Calgary.[56][57] On 27 February 2020, Urban released the single, "God Whispered Your Name" to country radio.[58] The track was co-written by Contemporary Christian artist Chris August.[59] On 24 April, Urban released the single, "Polaroid" to radio in Australia and the United Kingdom.[60][61][62][63]
In May 2020, Keith Urban hosted a drive-in concert for medical workers. His latest gig was mostly just him and two other musicians playing on a flatbed truck in front of about 125 cars. Urban played at the Stardust Drive-In movie theatre, about 60 km east of Nashville, Tennessee, for a crowd of more than 200 medical workers from Vanderbilt Health.[64] Later in May 2020, Urban announced his eleventh studio album, The Speed of Now Part 1, would be released on 18 September 2020.[65][66][67] In July 2020, Urban released another promotional single, "Superman",[68] which was released to radio in Australia.[69] He followed that up with "Change Your Mind" in August 2020.[70]
In the week prior to the album's release, Urban hosted the rescheduled 55th Academy of Country Music Awards and premiered the third North American single off the album, "One Too Many" with Pink,[71] which would become Urban's first Top 10 all-genre song in his homeland of Australia.[72] In December 2020, Urban was listed at number 29 in Rolling Stone Australia's "50 Greatest Australian Artists of All Time" issue.[73] He is a featured artist on Taylor Swift's track "That's When" from Fearless (Taylor's Version), Swift's first re-recorded studio album, which was released on 9 April 2021. "That's When" is one of six "from the Vault" tracks that did not make the 2008 album.[74] That year he also collaborated with Amy Shark on "Love Songs Ain't For Us", which also came out 2021.[75][76]
In August 2021, Urban released the single "Wild Hearts",[77][78] which he followed up with the single "Nightfalls" in March 2022.[79][80] In July 2022, Urban released the single "Brown Eyes Baby," which was co-written by Morgan Wallen.[81] He embarked on his headlining "The Speed of Now World Tour" in June 2022, with Ingrid Andress as his opening act.[82] In October 2022, he released the single "Street Called Main".[83]
In 2024, Urban released the singles "Straight Line" and "Messed Up as Me", and announced he will release his twelfth studio album later in the year.[84][85]
Television and film appearances
The Voice
On 23 November 2011, Urban was confirmed as one of the four vocal coaches in the Australian version of the reality singing competition
American Idol
The
Slim and I
Urban features in the 2020
Signature guitar line
In October 2013, during a concert in
A portion of the proceeds benefit
Personal life
Urban is a citizen of both Australia and the United States.[104]
Urban met Australian actress
On 2 February 2007, Urban filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey painter by the same name, who has a website called KeithUrban.com. The singer wanted to acquire the rights to the URL.[105] The painter counter-sued.[106] The lawsuit was settled in the painter's favour.
On 7 January 2008, Kidman said she and Urban were expecting their first child together. Kidman's publicist said, "the couple are thrilled and cannot wait". Kidman gave birth to a daughter in 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee. On his website, Urban said:
"Earlier this morning Nic gave birth to our beautiful baby girl, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban. We want to thank everybody that has kept us in their thoughts and prayers. We feel very, very blessed and grateful that we can share this joy with all of my loving fans today."[107][108]
In 2010, Urban and Kidman had a second daughter by
Substance use and recovery
Urban has struggled with alcoholism and cocaine addiction in his past.[110] The singer described the late 1990s as a period of heavy usage of the substances.[111] In 1998, he checked into Cumberland Heights, a treatment centre in Nashville.[112] On 19 October 2006, Urban checked into the Betty Ford Center in California. On 20 October, he 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.[113]
Discography
- Studio albums
- Keith Urban (1991)
- The Ranch (1997)
- Keith Urban (1999)
- Golden Road (2002)
- Be Here (2004)
- Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing (2006)
- Defying Gravity (2009)
- Get Closer (2010)
- Fuse (2013)
- Ripcord (2016)
- Graffiti U (2018)
- The Speed of Now Part 1 (2020)
Filmography
- Paradoria (2015) - Various roles (voice)
- The Amazing World Of Gumball(2016) - Guitar Man (voice)
- Paradoria 2: Enchanted Realm (2019) - Various roles (voice)
- Back to the Outback (2021) – Doug (voice)
Tours
Headlining tours
- CMT on Tour: Keith Urban Be Here '04 (2004)
- Alive in '05 (2005)
- Still Alive in '06 (2006)
- Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy World Tour (2007)
- Escape Together World Tour 2009 (2009)
- Summer Lovin' 2010 Tour (2010)
- Get Closer 2011 World Tour (2011)
- Light the Fuse Tour (2013–14)
- Raise 'Em Up Tour (2014)
- ripCORD World Tour (2016–17) (Carrie Underwood joined Urban as co-headliner for the New Zealand and Australia shows)
- Graffiti U World Tour(2018–19)
- The Speed of Now World Tour (2022)
Co-headlining
- A.C.M Presents : Keith Urban & Rory Gilliatte '6 String Bandits' Tour (2008)
- Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Carnival Ride Tour (2008) co-headlined with Carrie Underwood
Supporting tours
- Brooks & Dunn's Neon Circus & Wild West Show 2001
- Eagles Summer 2010 Tour (2010) – Opened for The Dixie Chicks[114]
Awards and honours
Urban was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia at the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to the performing arts as a singer and songwriter, and to charitable organisations".[115]
Urban was named the 241st greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2023.[116]
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External links
- Official website
- Keith Urban at Curlie
- Keith Urban at IMDb