Urban began to study a guitar at age Half a dozen & began winning talent contests at age Octet. By dozen, he was booking his b& around local clubs, and at 15, he quit school to hit a road. Inside 1990, Urban signed by using EMI within Australia & recorded his number one solo album, which following little joe There are no. Deuce united states hits inside Australia. Within 1992, Urban moved to Nashville to pursue a big united states music market in the globe. Originally a frontman for The Ranch, the 3-piece class action that freed a single album around 1997 to critical plaudits, Urban disbanded a class action to pursue a solo career.

Urban freed his self-titled U.s. debut around 2000, achieving trey top Pentad hits & securing a title of Top Up to date Male Vocalist Award at a 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards. When you took this equivalent developmental period, Urban succumbed to addiction problems. Fallowing reaching the home rock bottom, he check over rehab & filtered higher.

Keith, openly think of a modern day guitar virtuoso, has performed as a session musician on albums such as Garth Brooks' Double Live & Dixie Chicks' Fly.

Urban freed Golden Road around 2002 & a profits of the individual Mortal Such as Smart shoppers sent his career into high devices. A individual spent eight sequentially weeks at a top of the stock and index charts, odd at #1 yearn than any more united states creative person within 2002. A album went pt inside each united states in which it has been freed & is approaching triple atomic number 78 in the U.S.

Around 2004 Exist as On this text was discharged & nominative for better united states album at a Grammy Awards and at the Academy of United states Music Awards. Urban has besides discharged Times Last By, the greatest hits collection, inside Europe.

Touring as a supporting work for reknowned united states acts Brooks and Dunn and Kenny Chesney honed Urban's skills and stage-craft. United states streaming videos channel CMT sign when a title sponsor of Keith Urban's number one headlining arena tour titled ''Keith Urban Become On text '04.

Urban continues his meteoric rise to fame around 2005 by having a super successful Alive within '05'' tour. He performed in the Live 8 Philadelphia concert on July Second 2005 & has been chosen per Gap to come out alongside septet more brilliantly musical stars in their "Favorites" campaign. He freed the DVD within late September entitled Livin' Right Now, recorded in California.

Discography

Albums
1991 Keith Urban (1991) 1997 The Ranch (with The Ranch) 1999 Keith Urban (1999) #145 US 2002 Golden Road #11 US 2004 In the Ranch (reissue of The Ranch however by owning added songs) 2004 Be Here #3 US 2005 Days Go By (UK) #40 UK

Singles

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! breadth="86"| US Hot 100 ! breadth="86"| US Country |- | 2000 | "But for the Grace of God" ! #37 ! #1 | Keith Urban |- | 2000 | "Where the Blacktop Ends" ! #35 ! - | Keith Urban |- | 2001 | "Somebody Like You" ! #23 ! #1 (Eight weeks) | Golden Road |- | 2002 | "Raining on Sunday" ! #38 ! - | Golden Road |- | 2003 | "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" ! #30 ! #1 | Golden Road |- | 2004 | "You'll Think of Me" ! #24 ! #1 | Golden Road |- | 2004 | "Days Go By" ! #31 ! #1 | Become Here |- | 2005 | "You're My Better Half" ! #33 ! - | Become Here |- | 2005 | "Making Memories of Us" ! #34 ! #1 | Exist as Here |- | 2005 | "Better Life" ! #44 ! #Single (1 week) | Become Here |}

Awards and Achievements

Awards
1983 - CCMA Junior Male Vocalist 1990 - CMAA Star Maker Award 1991 - CMAA Golden Guitar/Best Recently Talent 1992 - CMAA Golden Guitar Male Vocalist 1992 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist 1997 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist 1998 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist 2001 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist 2001 - ACM Top Fresh Male Vocalist 2001 - CMA Horizon Award 2001 - ARIA Great Accomplishment Award 2001 - VMA Male Vocalizer Award 2001 - Mo Australian Indicate Business Ambassador of the Year 2003 - ARIA United states Album of the Month (Golden Road) 2003 - United states Each week Fan Favourite Award for Preferred Recently Artist 2003 - BMI Song of the Month Category for "Somebody Like You" 2003 - TCMA Cd Clip of the Season - "Somebody Like You" 2004 - CMA Male Singer of the Year 2004 - FCMA Right Foreign Music 2005 - CMT Music Awards Streaming of the Season - "Days Go By" 2005 - ACM Album of the Month - "Be Here" 2005 - ACM Top Male Vocalist

Gold/Platinum Albums
2003 - Self-Titled Keith Urban 1999 qualified platinum 2004 - Golden Road qualified triple platinum 2004 - Become On this button qualified Platinum 2005 - Videos Hits DVD qualified Platinum 2005 - Become On text qualified double platinum