Keith Urban
Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urbanis a New Zealand-born Australian country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, TV show judge and record producer. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States the following year. He found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Nashville and charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth26 October 1967
CityWhangarei, New Zealand
CountryUnited States of America
Someone said one time, 'If your marriage isn't your priority, you're not married,' and I thought, for me that's so true. So as long as I keep her as a priority, everything else sort of seems to work. And when I don't keep it as a priority, it's ... Jenga.
Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.
There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.
Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!
Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.
I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit, ... There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.
...And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive...
Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!
You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.
I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.
Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!