Keith Urban Keeps Lighting the Fuse With Fall Tour Dates : April 01, 2013

Keith Urban and Little Big Town apparently weren’t content with their previously announced summer tour, and a new fall leg has been added to the “Light the Fuse” trek. The n ...

CMA Fest Busts at the Seams with Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban : March 27, 2013

Nashville’s annual CMA Music Festival is known for drawing the top acts in country music each year, and this year looks to be no different as Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Keith Ur ...

Keith Urban Stacks Tour Dates for Summer 2013 : November 15, 2012

Keith Urban has announced the initial dates of his 2013 summer headlining tour. The trek will likely support Urban’s next record, which is expected to be released sometime after ...

Country Thunder Arizona and Wisconsin Release Star Lineups : November 14, 2012

Lady Antebellum, Toby Keith, Eric Church and Brantley Gilbert will headline the Arizona version of next year's Country Thunder festival, while Keith Urban, Brad Paisley and Dierks ...

Nicki Minaj, Keith Urban Complete ‘American Idol’ Judges Panel : September 17, 2012

After months of speculation, the final judges lineup for the upcoming 12th season of “American Idol” has finally been confirmed. Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban were the final a ...

Keith Urban Silences ‘the Voice,’ Preparing for ‘American Idol?’ : September 14, 2012

Keith Urban will not return as a coach on the second season of the Australian version of “The Voice,” but it looks like he may find a chair at the “American Idol” judges ta ...

WE Fest Lock Down Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban for 2013 : July 11, 2012

Advertised as the “America’s Best Country Music Festival,” this year’s annual WE Fest hasn’t even happened yet, but that doesn’t mean organizers don’t want to go ahea ...

Keith Urban Readies 2013 World Tour with Australia Kickoff : June 20, 2012

Keith Urban has announced that his 2013 headlining world tour will kick off in his homeland of Australia. The new tour will kick off on January 25-26 with a two-night stand at t ...

Star Country Lineup Join Keith Urban For Hall Of Fame Benefit : January 17, 2012

Keith Urban’s third annual benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which was originally supposed to take place this month, has been rescheduled for April 1 ...

The Eagles Team Up with Keith Urban, Dixie Chicks for Stadium Tour : March 17, 2010

Have you ever wondered how many acts you have to pack onto a bill to fill up a stadium? Well evidently it is three. The Eagles, Keith Urban and the Dixie Chicks will be heading out ...

keith urban Biography

Keith Urban, the Australian country music song writer, singer and guitarist, was born on October 26, 1967 in Whangarei, New Zealand. Most of Urban's commercial success has come in Australia and the United States. Urban got his start in Brisbane, Australia. He released his debut self-titled album in 1991 and had four charted singles in Australia. In 1992 he moved to the U.S. He worked as a session guitarist and then started a band called The Ranch. The band record a studio album with Capitol Records and had two singles chart on Billboard's country charts.

In 1999, Urban made his solo debut in America with his album Keith Urban with Capitol Records. In the U.S. the set was certified platinum and produced his first number one hit in the U.S. with But for the Grace of God. Urban's breakthrough hit was Somebody Like You, off of his second set from 2002 called Golden Road. Urban won his first Grammy from that album with the fourth single You'll Think of Me and his third Number One song on Billboard. In 2004, he released Be Here, which spawned three Number One hit singles. The album earned a certification of 4x Multi-Platinum . In 2006, Urban released Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, which produced Once in a Lifetime and Stupid Boy which earned Urban his second Grammy. In late 2007 Greatest Hits: 18 Kids was released. A year later the Greatest Hits package was released with You Look Good in My Shirt added. The album Defying Gravity was released in March 2009 and Get Closer in November 2010.

Urban has released nine studio albums in total along with one with The Ranch. He has over fifteen charted singles on U.S. country charts, which include ten Number Ones. Keith Urban plays the electric and acoustic guitar in addition to drums, bouzouki, sitar, piano, mandolin, bass guitar and banjo.