Concerts & Live Music

Keith Urban started singing at an early age. He grew up in Australia and began taking guitar lessons at the age of six. His natural musical talent and charisma soon led to his participation in children’s theatre, where he first began to sing. His father was delighted to have a musical talent in the family. Urban’s father was very interested in American culture and country music, and he passed that interest on to his son. Young Keith Urban grew up listening to Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton, and Don Williams. He was steeped in country music.

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 which 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.

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Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967, New Zealand), is a New Zealand Grammy- and ARIA-winning country music singer. Urban began his career in Australia, having moved there at an early age; in 1991, Urban released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992.

Keith’s first arena tour was entitled Keith Urban Be Here with Katrina Elam as its opening act. The following year, the singer continued his meteoric rise to fame with his very successful tour together with Elam (Alive in 2005). Urban performed during the Live 8 Philadelphia concert in July 2005. He was chosen by The Gap to appear in their “Favorites” campaign. Keith Urban was named the 2005 CMA’s Entertainer of the Year. In the fall of 2005, the musician released a DVD titled Livin’ Right Now. It was recorded in at the Wiltern Theater in CA in late 2004.

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