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Keith Lionel Urban (born October 26, 1967 in Whangarei, New Zealand) is a New Zealander - Australian country singer who is now highly successful in the United States.
Urban began to learn the guitar while living in Australia at age 6 and dropped out of high school to pursue music. He later went to the U.S. and formed The Ranch. The Ranch's debut album failed to gain commercial success and the members parted ways not long afterwards. Keith went on to play as a session musician on albums such as Garth Brooks' Double Live and Dixie Chicks' Fly.
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About Keith Urban
In 1999 he released his self-titled debut album as a solo artist. Keith Urban, went gold in the U.S. His first major album was released in 2002, Golden Road went platinum in several countries. Finally in 2004 Be Here was released and nominated for a Grammy Award.
26 October 1967, Caboolture, Queensland, Australia. Urban's parents liked American country and, as a young guitarist, he played country festivals from the age of 10. Nevertheless, he admits his guitar playing was influenced by two rock players, Mark Knopfler and Lindsey Buckingham. Urban released his self-titled debut for EMI Australia in 1991, and enjoyed four chart-topping country hits including "I Never Work On A Sunday". After a few visits to the USA, he emigrated in 1992, taking his drummer, Peter Clarke. The two men formed the Ranch with West Virginian Jerry Flowers. In 1997, the trio released a self-titled album on Capitol Records, and had some success with the single, "Walkin' The Country". They opened for several country stars and Urban was recruited to play guitar for Garth Brooks on Double Live and the Dixie Chicks on Fly. KU, as he is known, succumbed to drug addiction and the subsequent break-up with his girlfriend formed the background of his US debut, Keith Urban. The album featured a breakneck instrumental, "Rollercoaster", on which he plays a ganjo, a combination of guitar and banjo. Urban had his first major country hit in 2000 with "It's A Love Thing". "Somebody Like You" in 2002 continued the success, by which time Urban was a major star in the current wave of new country males. His fourth album Be Here broke into the mainstream Top 5 in October 2004.
Impressed by Rollings' knowledge of Nashville's session players, Urban asked him to produce his next record, another solo album. His tour in support of that album included opening for such major acts as Dwight Yoakam, Faith Hill, and Tim McGraw, as well as headlining his own shows. Ten years on he was doing to Nashville what he'd done to Tamworth. The result was American country hits for "It's a Love Thing" and "Your Everything," and a Grammy award nomination for Best Country Instrumental Performance for "Rollercoaster."