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Keith Urban
Whangarei, North Island, New Zealand
Keith Lionel Urban (born October 26, 1967) is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United…
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Keith Lionel Urban (born October 26, 1967) is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992. Eventually, Urban found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Records and charted two singles on the Billboard country charts. Still signed to Capitol, he made his solo American debut in 1999 with the album Keith Urban. Certified platinum in the U.S., it also produced his first American Number One in "But for the Grace of God". His breakthrough hit was the Number One "Somebody Like You", from his second Capitol album Golden Road (2002). This album also earned Urban his first Grammy Award win for "You'll Think of Me", its fourth single and the fourth Billboard Number One of his career. 2004's Be Here, his third American album, produced three more Number Ones, and became his highest-selling album, earning 4× Multi-Platinum certification. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released in 2006, producing the record-setting #17 country chart debut of "Once in a Lifetime", as well as Urban's second Grammy for the song "Stupid Boy", while a Greatest Hits package entitled Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in late 2007. This album was re-released a year later as Greatest Hits: 19 Kids with one track added: the number one "You Look Good in My Shirt", which he had previously recorded on Golden Road. Additional albums Defying Gravity and Get Closer were released on March 31, 2009 and November 16, 2010, respectively. Urban has released a total of nine studio albums (one of which was released only in the United Kingdom), as well as one album in The Ranch. He has charted more than fifteen singles on the U.S. country charts, including ten Number Ones. Urban plays acoustic and electric guitar, as well as ganjo, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, sitar, bouzouki and drums.
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The Road
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2025
Opry 100: A Live Celebration
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2024
The Garfield Movie
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2022
Amazon Music Live
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2022
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
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2022
The Voice: Generations
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2021
Back to the Outback
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2020
The Sound
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2020
One World: Together at Home
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2019
Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
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2017
Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees
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2015
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
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2015
Jay Leno's Garage
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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- 2015
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
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2014
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
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2014
Keith Urban - Live at iTunes Festival - SXSW
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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2012
The Voice
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2012
Act of Valor
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2012
Good Mythical Morning
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2011
A MusiCares Tribute to Neil Young
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2011
The Voice
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2010
Hope for Haiti Now
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2008
Keith Urban: Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy World Tour
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