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Keith Urban is an acclaimed Australian and American country singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has received numerous awards, including four Grammys, and has charted 37 singles on the US Hot Country Songs chart, 18 of which reached number one. Urban has collaborated with artists across different genres and has released 11 studio albums, as well as one album with his former band, The Ranch.
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Keith Lionel Urban is an Australian and American country singer, songwriter and guitarist. Recognised with four Grammy Awards, he has also received 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves International Award, 13 CMA Awards, and six ARIA Music Awards. Urban wrote and performed the song “For You” from the film Act of Valor, which earned him nominations at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and at the 18th Critics’ Choice Awards in the respective Best Original Song categories.
Urban has released 11 studio albumsand 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 as well as 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 next year. He began 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 4x 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 as the lead single of his eighth American studio album, Ripcord. Later the album 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 The Voice and a judge on American Idol. In October 2013, he introduced his own signature line of guitars and accessories.
Keith Urban has won 4 Grammy Awards, 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, 13 CMA Awards, and 6 ARIA Music Awards.
Some of Keith Urban’s biggest hits include ,Somebody Like You,, ,You’ll Think of Me,, ,Blue Ain’t Your Color,, and ,One Too Many, featuring Pink.
Keith Urban has released 11 studio albums, as well as one album with his former band, The Ranch.
Keith Urban has worked with artists across various genres, including Pink, Nelly Furtado, Jason Derulo, Julia Michaels, Dolly Parton, The Chicks, Carrie Underwood, and more.
Keith Urban released his self-titled debut album in 1991 and began his band The Ranch, which released one studio album, before moving to the United States in 1992.
In addition to his music career, Keith Urban has served as a coach on the Australian version of The Voice and a judge on American Idol.
In 2013, Keith Urban introduced his own signature line of guitars and accessories, further expanding his impact on the music industry.
I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don’t know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It’s vanity because no one does.
Australian-American musician
I’ve always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven’t had to change my life really at all, I don’t think.
Australian-American musician
Once we get into the groove, we’re kind of like long-distance runners – that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running – and I don’t stop!
Australian-American musician
My father’s record collection was all country. That’s how I was exposed to it.
Australian-American musician
It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you’re writing all the time. You’re collecting songs. I’ve had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.
Australian-American musician
It’s something I’ve always loved doing. I’m not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I’m there every second of every day. That’s my hands-on situation.
Australian-American musician
It’s not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you’re looking for songs all year long and you’re writing all year long.
Australian-American musician
They’re mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.
Australian-American musician
You’re always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they’re all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn’t done on the first one.
Australian-American musician
I’m a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.
Australian-American musician
I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart’s in the right place, and I love country music.
Australian-American musician