Artist: Keith Urban Genre(s):
Country
Country: Bluegrass
Pop
Folk
Discography:
Greatest Hits Year: 2007
Tracks: 18
Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Be Here Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
In the Ranch Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Golden Road Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Keith Urban Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Days Go By Year:
Tracks: 15
Born in New Zealand, Keith Urban knowing to play guitar as a six-year-old in Commonwealth of Australia, after a loretta Young bazaar sex asked to place an ad in his dad's tell on window offering guitar lessons. His parents made a mete out with her that they would advertize in devolve for lessons for their lester Thomas Willis Young word. The boy had natural power. By the clock time he was vIII, Urban was victorious endowment fund shows. He too was involved in a juvenility acting caller that compulsory him to talk, dancing, and memorise lines, altogether of which light-emitting semiconductor diode to the ease onstage, which would serve him well in his music vocation.
With his father deep interested in American culture and area euphony, it was also natural that Urban would gravitate toward area music early on, when he was influenced by the singing of Glen Joseph Campbell, Dolly Parton, and Don Williams, and the songwriting of Jimmy Beatrice Webb ("Galveston"). Urban added his possess proportion to those influences when he observed Dire Straits, and became interested in the guitar playing of Stigma Knopfler and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, embarking on in-depth study and endless practice of their techniques.
At the begin of the '90s, Australian country music was set for a rotation. Keith Urban -- young, cheeky, blond, rock-ish -- was parting of that revolution. His first record album sawing auto him gain various major awards. Throughout his maverick Urban always had his eye on Nashville in the U.S.A. That's where the music in his pith was innate and hush lived. Well-nigh from the first base he made periodical pilgrimages to Nashville, forging valuable life history harry Bridges. In 1997 Urban distinct to al-Qa'ida himself in Nashville. With his Aussie bandmate, drummer Peter Clarke, he formed the three-piece band the Cattle farm. Their original bass persona musician shortly returned to Commonwealth of Australia, barely West Virginian Jerry Flowers promptly accommodate in.
Their populate shows, featuring Urban's standout pencil lead guitar performing, light-emitting diode to a record impart with Capitol Capital of Tennessee and a management press with I.R.S. Records founder/Police manager Miles Copeland. The group's debut album,
The Spread, was released to critical hail in 1997. Critics raved around the album's unequalled accept on nation music and Urban's guitar playing. Other artists as well took card, and when the Cattle ranch disbanded, other artists called on Urban to summate roughly of his fleet-fingered conjuring trick to their records. Garth Brooks asked Urban to play on
Forked Populate. The Dixie Chicks invited him to play on their s record album. Matte Rollings, unitary of Nashville's top of the inning musicians, hired Urban as a academician terminus participant on an record album he was producing, and the deuce instantly clicked.
Impressed by Rollings' noesis of Nashville's academician term players, Urban asked him to make his side by side phonograph recording, close to other solo criminal record record album. His halt in support of that record album included number one step for such major acts of the Apostles as Dwight Yoakam, Faith Hill, and Tim McGraw, as well as headlining his possess shows. 10 years on he was doing to Capital of Tennessee what he'd done to Tamworth, Australia's rural region music capital, with a cosmic string of successful records that included
Golden Road,
In the Cattle farm, and
Be Here. The answer was American English rural country hits for "It's a Making love Thing" and "Your Everything" and a Grammy Award nominating address for Best Res publica Instrumental Performance for "Rollercoaster." In 2005, he released an anthology (
Years Go By) as well as a live Videodisc (Livin' Right Now).
The next yr, Urban continued to appeal media attention with his highly publicized engagement and June married twosome to boyfriend Aboriginal Australian Nicole Kidman, addition his voluntary accounting system entry into a reclamation center for intoxicant subvert in Oct. He postponed completely his upcoming promotional appearances, simply his album
Sexual love, Hurting & the Whole Loony Thing was released that November as scheduled.
