Keith Urban is a country music singer, songwriter, and record producer who was born in New Zealand and reared in Australia. His career began with his debut album, “Keith Urban” (1991), and has lasted nearly two decades.
On October 26, 1967, Keith Lionel Urban was born in Whangarei, New Zealand. Growing up in Caboolture, Queensland, Australia, his father owned a convenience store. Sue McCarthy, his childhood instructor, taught him the guitar, and he started participating in neighborhood music contests.
In 1983, Urban made his television debut on “New Faces,” an Australian talent show. He continued to be active in the Australian country music scene for the remainder of the 1980s, appearing on shows like “The Reg Lindsay Country Homestead TV program” and “Mike McClellan’s Music Program” and playing live at places like the Northern Suburbs Country Music Club in Bald Hills.
Keith Urban Accident
Keith Urban issued a statement stating that the Monday motorcycle accident occurred as he was being trailed by a photographer on his way to an A.A. meeting in Sydney.
According to his spokesman in the United States, Paul Freundlich, “Today’s event resulted from one person’s desire to do his job and my desire to maintain my privacy.”
Here is a Twitter post related to her motorcycle accident:-
Somewhere In My (Crushed) Car !
A huge thank you to everyone at @DigThisVegas for letting me go mad in your big ass sandbox & annihilate a poor, unsuspecting Ford Focus before the show last weekend !
(ps, we’ve got a few more left this month at @PHVegas & we’ll be back June 16) pic.twitter.com/Rf8RuFtCFT— Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) March 11, 2023
Near Nicole Kidman’s Darling Point residence, witnesses claim that Urban, 39, was being chased by a photographer on a different bicycle at the time of the collision.
The publication claimed that the incident chipped the nearby gutter. Witnesses reported that although the performer appeared physically unharmed, she was upset after the incident.
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Keith Urban Music Career
In 1990, Urban inked a record contract with EMI in Australia. In 1991, he released his debut album, “Keith Urban,” and from 1993 to 1994, he toured as Slim Dusty’s opening act. He went to the Grand Ole Opry for the first time as Dusty’s opening act. In 1992, Urban moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
He started writing songs with Vernon Rust, such as the Raybon Brothers’ “Tangled Up in Love” (1997), 4 Runner’s “That Was Him (This Is Now)” (1996), and Toby Keith’s “Jesus Gets Jealous of Santa Claus” (1995).
In 1999, Urban’s self-titled debut album was made available in the US. As a result of his single “Your Everything,” which peaked at No. 4, he became the first male performer from New Zealand to enter the Top 10 on US country charts. “But for the Grace of God,” the song that followed, became his first No. 1 hit. In addition to winning the Horizon Award at the 2001 Country Music Association Awards, he was named the 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards’ Top New Male Vocalist.
His second American album, “Golden Road,” was released in 2002. Of the thirteen songs on the album, Urban produced seven of them alone, and he and Dann Huff co-produced the other six. “Somebody Like You,” the album’s lead single, topped the charts for six weeks, and “You’ll Think of Me,” the fourth single, won him the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
In September 2015, “Golden Road” achieved triple platinum certification after three million copies were sold. Urban made his stage debut in front of European audiences while opening for Bryan Adams during his tour of the UK and Ireland.
The lead single from the album “Be Here,” “Days Go By,” became his fifth No. 1 on the country chart in 2004. “Once in a Lifetime,” his 2006 single, peaked at No. 6 after debuting at No. 17, shattering the previous record for the highest-debuting country hit. Urban won his second Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2007 when his follow-up single “Stupid Boy” peaked at No. 3 on the charts.
Both tracks may be found on his 2006 album “Love, Pain, and the Whole Crazy Thing.” Urban and fellow country singer Carrie Underwood went on the “Love, Pain, and the Whole Crazy Carnival Ride World Tour” in 2008.
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