Keith Urban
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Keith Urban Biography
Born in New Zealand, Keith Urban learned to play guitar as a
six-year-old in Australia, after a young woman asked to place an ad in
his dad's shop window offering guitar lessons. His parents made a deal
with her that they would advertise in return for lessons for their
young son. The boy had natural ability. By the time he was eight, Urban
was winning talent shows. He also was involved in a youth acting
company that required him to sing, dance, and memorize lines, all of
which led to the ease on-stage, which would serve him well in his music
career.
With his father deeply interested in American culture and country
music, it was also natural that Urban would gravitate toward country
music early on, when he was influenced by the singing of Glen Campbell,
Dolly Parton, and Don Williams, and the songwriting of Jimmy Webb
( Galveston ). Urban added his own dimension to those influences when
he discovered Dire Straits, and became interested in the guitar playing
of Mark Knopfler and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, embarking on
in-depth study and endless practice of their techniques.
At the start of the '90s, Australian country music was primed for a
revolution. Keith Urban -- young, brash, blonde, rock-ish -- was part
of that revolution. His first album saw him win several major awards.
Throughout his rise Urban always had his eye on Nashville in the U.S.A.
That's where the music in his heart was born and still lived. Almost
from the beginning he made periodical pilgrimages to Nashville, forging
valuable career bridges. In 1997 Urban decided to base himself in
Nashville. With his Australian bandmate, drummer Peter Clarke, he
formed the three-piece band the Ranch. Their original bass player soon
returned to Australia, but West Virginian Jerry Flowers quickly fit in.
Their live shows, featuring Urban's standout lead guitar playing, led
to a record deal with Capitol Nashville and a management contract with
I.R.S. Records founder/Police manager Miles Copeland. The group's debut
album, The Ranch, was released to critical acclaim in 1997. Critics
raved about the album's unique take on country music and Urban's guitar
playing. Other artists also took notice, and when the Ranch disbanded,
other artists called on Urban to add some of his fleet-fingered magic
to their records. Garth Brooks asked Urban to play on Double Live. The
Dixie Chicks invited him to play on their second album. Matt Rollings,
one of Nashville's top musicians, hired Urban as a session player on an
album he was producing, and the two immediately clicked.
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, Australia's country music capital, with a string of
successful records that included Golden Road, In the Ranch, and Be
Here. 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. In 2005, he released an
anthology (Days Go By) as well as a live DVD (Livin' Right Now).
The next year, Urban continued to attract media attention with his
highly publicized engagement and June marriage to fellow Australian
Nicole Kidman, plus his voluntary entry into a rehabilitation center
for alcohol abuse in October. He postponed all his upcoming promotional
appearances, but his album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was
released that November as scheduled. ~ Ed Nimmervoll, All Music Guide
Written by Ed Nimmervoll