- Born in New Zealand in 1967.
- In 1990, he had success in Australia with four country music singles before moving to the U.S. During the 90s, he was a session guitarist for various country music acts, and in 1997, he formed a country band named The Ranch.
- In 1999, he released his first American solo album, the self titled Keith Urban. The album had four singles, with But For The Grace of God reaching #1 on the country charts. This has been followed by ten more albums, seven of which reached #1 on the country charts. He has had 21 singles hit #1 – his most recent, Blue Ain’t Your Color, hit #1 in 2016. It also was his 19th single to reach the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- Somebody Like You, from his Golden Road album in 2002, was named the biggest country hit of the decade by Billboard.
- Urban has won four Grammy Awards in country categories, and numerous other awards from the world of country music.
- Urban writes or co-writes most of his music. He plays guitar, banjo and other stringed instruments, and has a strong supporting cast of country musicians backing his work. His songs are catchy “feel good” country pop, with lots of harmony. As his popularity grows and grows, more artists want to collaborate with him – even rapper Pitbull raps in the song Sun Don’t Let Me Down.
- He tours extensively, and his hard work has made one of the highest paid singers in the world. Between April 2016 and April 2017, he pulled in $46 million in earnings. Alas, his ex-wife Nicole Kidman no longer can help pay the grocery bills!
- Here’s his most popular YouTube video, with 445+ million views – Blue Ain’t Your Color.