Keith Urban

Keith Urban ( born October 26, 1967 in Whangarei, New Zealand ) is a New Zealand - Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is a crossover musicians in the areas of country and pop music.

Curriculum vitae

He grew up in Caboolture, part of the Greater Metropolitan Region of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, where he temporarily lived on a farm with his parents, who were immigrants. He came early with the country music in touch and has already won at the age of eight years, a talent show. At twelve, he was playing with a band in clubs.

Signed in 1990 Keith Urban in his home a recording contract and released his first solo album. 1992 drew the musicians to Nashville, Tennessee and established connections to the music industry. With the band The Ranch in 1997, he produced an album. His breakthrough came in 2000 with the solo album Keith Urban. He won the 2001 Horizon Award ( Youth Prize ) of the Country Music Association and the Top New Male Vocalist Award ( prize for the best new singer ) of the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for his guitar playing for a Grammy. Keith Urban's music style is a mix of country, rock and pop music. For traditional country tunes he plays acoustic guitar, rocking solos on the electric guitar or banjo. The album Golden Road was released in 2002 and sold in the U.S., two million times. Be Here followed in 2004.

On June 25, 2006 Urban married in a suburb of Sydney, the American- Australian actress Nicole Kidman. On 7 July 2008 in Nashville came to their first child into the world. A second daughter was born on December 28, 2010 in Nashville. She was discharged with the help of a surrogate mother. Because alcohol problems Urban went in October 2006 in a voluntary detoxification. In 2007 he went back on tour, where he performed on 7 July 2007 together with Alicia Keys at the Live Earth concert in New York City. 15 May 2011 Keith Urban was on Nashville's Music City Walk of Fame a star; on April 21, 2012, he was admitted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Urban was in the first season of April to June 2012 jury member and coach in the Australian singing talent show The Voice, which will be broadcast on Nine Network. Urban sat down next to Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Randall Darius Jackson on the twelfth season of American Idol as a judge in part. In 2014 he took with Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr. also as a juror and on the 13th season of American Idol in part.

Discography

Albums

Singles

The major awards

1983 - CCMA Junior Male Vocalist 1990 - CMAA Star Maker Award 1991 - CMAA Golden Guitar / Best New Talent 1992 - CMAA Golden Guitar Male Vocalist 1992 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist 1997 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist 1998 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist 2001 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist 2001 - ACM Top New Male Vocalist 2001 - CMA Horizon Award 2001 - ARIA Outstanding Achievement Award 2001 - VMA Male Vocalist Award 2001 - Mon Australian Showbusiness Ambassador of the Year 2003 - ARIA Country Album of the Year ( Golden Road) 2003 - Country Weekly Fan Favorite Award for Favorite New Artist 2003 - BMI Song of the Year category for " Somebody Like You" 2003 - TCMA Video Clip of the Year - " Somebody Like You" 2004 - CMA Male Vocalist of the Year 2004 - FCMA Best Foreign Music 2005 - CMT Music Awards Video of the Year - " Days Go By " 2005 - ACM Album of the Year - " Be Here " 2005 - ACM Top Male Vocalist 2005 - CMA International Artist of the Year 2005 - CMA Male Vocalist of the Year 2005 - CMA Entertainer of the Year 2006 - CMA Male Vocalist of the Year 2008 - Grammy " Best Male Country Vocal Performance " 2009 - American Music Awards Category Country - Favorite Male Artist 2009 - Grammy Award for " Best Male Country Vocal Performance for Sweet Thing" 2010 - People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Artist 2011 - Grammy Award for " Best Male Country Vocal Performance for Til Summer Comes Around "

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