Keith Urban

Keith Urban a grandi près de Brisbane, en Australie. Ses parents aimaient la culture américaine, particulièrement la musique country. Il a commencé à jouer de la guitare dès l'âge de six ans et donne son premier concert deux ans plus tard.

En 1992, il quitte son pays pour faire partager sa musique à plus grande échelle et part donc aux États-Unis. Après quelques années sur la route, durant lesquelles il fait de petits concerts, il signe un contrat avec EMI/Capitol Records et son succès sera dès lors phénoménal. Les trois albums solo qu'il a sortis ont été vendus à 5 millions d'exemplaires, en comptant seulement les États-Unis, le Canada et l'Australie.

En 2002, il sort Golden Road, (qui inclut Somebody like you, Song for dad..) puis en 2004, Be here (comportant le single Days go by).

« L'homme le plus sexy de la country music » (élu par le magazine Country Weekly) épouse l'actrice Nicole Kidman le 25 juin 2006. Il lui dédiera la chanson Once in a lifetime. Ce sera le premier extrait de l'album Love, pain & the whole crazy thing paru en novembre 2006.
Ce sera à cette occasion le deuxième artiste country (après
Shania Twain
) à bénéficier d'une couverture médiatique en France, mais il sera annoncé comme un artiste rock afin de mieux « passer » sur les ondes de l'Hexagone… Il entame début 2007 une tournée mondiale, des dizaines de dates en passant par de nombreuses villes américaines, l'Angleterre, l'Allemagne et un retour en Australie.




Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 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.

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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 No.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 31 March 2009 and 16 November 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 banjo, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, sitar, bouzouki and drums.

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