Keith Urban

By Beville Darden Keith Urban follows Taylor in the country categories with four Grammy nods, including Best Country Album. "I wrote and recorded 'Defying Gravity' to touch upon the power of the human spirit," Keith says of his nominated CD. "I had no idea that it would've connected in the way that it did. We sa...

By The Boot Staff In other notable country nods, the Zac Brown Band is up for Best New Artist, along with two other nominations. Keith Urban has four nominations, while Lee Ann Womack and George Strait each have three. See the full list of country Grammy nominees after the jump.

By Donna Hughes Keith Urban will be spending the Christmas holiday Down Under with wife Nicole Kidman, daughter Sunday Rose and much of their extended family. The country superstar is heading back to Oz for the Australian leg of his 'Escape Together World Tour,' which kicks off Dec. 12 in Melbourne, and wr...

By The Boot Staff It's about love, optimism, hope and rising above," Keith tells The Boot of the themes running through his sixth studio album. And if it's possible to rise above the country superstar's own high standards, he's done so with feel-good songs like 'Sweet Thing,' poignant love songs like 'Tha...

Keith Urban Remembers Tearful Career Beginnings The Boot (blog) When Keith Urban came to Nashville in 1989, it was love at first sight. He knew immediately it was where he was meant to be. But the road Keith took to get ...

By Beville Darden There's a song Keith Urban wrote called 'Things I Believe.' I'm very excited for people to hear that," Jimmy tells The Boot. "It's hard to sing something he wrote and make it your own, because he has such a signature sound. There's no doubt that he's the writer on this song, but I tried to make it m...

By Gayle Richardson Nicole famously left the bright lights of Hollywood to move to a farm outside of Nashville when she married Keith. "There are certain limitations to my career because I'm based here," Nicole admits to Ladies Home Journal. "And that's cool. Keith has enormous ambitions, which I support. His t...

By Marianne Horner Once upon a time, in the faraway land of Australia, little Keith Urban was given an instrument that would foreshadow his storybook future. In that twinkling of time, a future superstar was born. His first guitar? Not quite ... My dad gave me a ukelele when I was four, 'cause it was the right size, y...

By Gayle Richardson Keith Urban got to stay home in Nashville to pick up a CMA Award last week, but he traveled the world for another honor he's just received. Keith and his tour sponsors KC Masterpiece earned the Billboard Concert Marketing and Promotion Award for the Escape Together World Tour.

By The Boot Staff Brad Paisley and Lady Antebellum each had two CMA wins. It was Brad's third consecutive win for Male Vocalist, and he also shares an award with buddy Keith Urban, as they took home Musical Event of the Year for their duet, 'Start a Band.' Lady A beat Rascal Flatts' streak of six consecutive Voc...

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By The Boot Staff CMA co-host Brad takes the telecast into the future -- 'Welcome to the Future,' that is. His co-host Carrie Underwood is scheduled to perform her current No. 1 hit, 'Cowboy Casanova.' The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Kenny Chesney teams up with Dave Matthews for 'I'm Alive.'

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By Donna Hughes Brad also has nods in the Video and Musical Event of the Year categories for his collaboration with Keith Urban on "Start a Band." The song was originally going to be an instrumental with Keith for Brad's album 'Play,' but the pair decided while that might be pretty impressive, it also could...

By Donna Hughes The People's Choice Awards nominations were announced Tuesday and Taylor Swift received nods in three categories. She, along with Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban are up for Favorite Country Artist. Taylor and Carrie also received nominations in the overa...

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By Stephen L. Betts Move over, CMA Awards, here come the American Music Awards! Just 11 days after Wednesday night's CMA telecast, ABC will offer up another star-studded awards show featuring some of country music's finest mingling with artists from the worlds of pop, rock and hip/hop.

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By Alanna Conaway Overall, Keith says that he stays within his comfort zone when writing songs for his albums. "Obviously I write about the things that I am comfortable writing about," he explains. "They are not so sacred that I can't write about them."

By Marianne Horner As his latest album, 'Defying Gravity,' continues to unfold one chart-topper after another, Keith Urban reflects on the emotional effect his wife, actress Nicole Kidman, had on him while he was working at home on the record -- from the first exploratory guitar parts to the finished prod...

By Marianne Horner After moving to Nashville in 1992, Keith Urban began gradually establishing himself, eventually becoming the global superstar today. Keith is also widely considered a "guitar god," a title he began earning during his youth in Australia, playing American west coast rock. That's when he...

By Gayle Richardson Not every singer says no, however. Keith Urban, Darryl Worley, Billy Currington, David Kersh and Aaron Tippin are among the country artists who've posed, partially clothed, in the magazine. But even if Brad was completely covered, he says the reason he won't do it has nothing to do with mod...

By Marianne Horner These days, many fans choose to buy their favorite tracks from an artist on iTunes, rather than go out and purchase an entire album. Some artists (notably Garth Brooks and Kid Rock) don't like the idea and have refused to allow their music to be made available that way. And while Keith Urban's...

By Marianne Horner Before there was Keith Urban, multi-platinum country music superstar, there was a talented teenager who lived in the faraway land of Australia. And one of the New Zealand-born Aussie's first jobs in the music business was as a musical director for an Australian cabaret singer. Keith reca...

By Beville Darden Keith Urban ended the North American leg of his Escape Together World Tour with a prank on his fans! While playing 'Better Life,' the last song of the night at his concert in Buffalo, New York, Keith ran straight through the audience floor and out the front doors of the HSBC Arena. With camera...

By Stephen L. Betts All that talk about Kenny Chesney taking time off next year sure didn't last long! And while he sticking to the plan to not mount a tour of his own, Kenny is among the performers scheduled for the inaugural Bayou Country Superfest on Memorial Day, May 30, 2010, at LSU's Tiger Stadium.

By Lorie Hollabaugh A special Daisy Rock guitar autographed by Carrie is now available at the Women Rock for the Cure online auction that launched yesterday on eBay. Also up for grabs is a one-of-a-kind PRS guitar signed by several artists who performed at this year's Opry Goes Pink concert, as well as guitars...

By Vernell Hackett We had so many artists who wanted to be on the show, we could have had a three night show," Keith told the audience at the sold-out concert benefiting the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. "Instead, we're just gonna do it again next year on October 5!"

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By Pat Gallagher Keith Urban -- along with Vince Gill -- is set to co-host an all-star concert to benefit the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum tonight (Oct. 13) in Nashville. In the meantime, when he hasn't been on the road for the Escape Together World Tour, Keith has been spending time at home, lounging a...

By Marianne Horner When he plays a show, Keith Urban will famously wander off the stage and onto the arena floor - a grinning, guitar-slinging deliveryman, bringing his electrifying, feel-good music to his fans. It's mass-scale locomotion ... and Keith has a passionate motive in mind, as he's stoking those fr...

By Stephen L. Betts With more than 100,000 fans in attendance this past year, the star-studded Stagecoach country music festival is set to return to the town of Indio in the California desert, April 24-25, 2010. Headliners for the event will be first-time Stagecoach attendees Keith Urban and Toby Keith, al...

By Gayle Richardson Reigning Female Vocalist of the Year Carrie Underwood, who is co-hosting the show, will also perform, along with all five of the Entertainer of the Year nominees: Carrie's co-host Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, George Strait and Taylor Swift.

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By Pat Gallagher Robin has also interviewed some of the biggest names in country on 'GMA,' including Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Keith Urban and Dolly Parton. So which country crooner would she want to be stranded on a desert island with?

By Marianne Horner As for the other ones -- Keith demures with a laugh, "I think that's been well-documented," and then he moves on to his favorite subject -- daughter, Sunday. Keith's first child with wife Nicole Kidman celebrated her first birthday in July.

By Pat Gallagher Over the years, the duo shared the stage on tour with Keith Urban, Montgomery Gentry, Gretchen Wilson, Jack Ingram, Sugarland and Big and Rich, among others. But now that it's closing time, who'll get the call to join them on the last round-up?

By Gayle Richardson The Oct. 1 show in Los Angeles also includes Melissa Etheridge, Dwight Yoakam and a few surprise guests, who'll all perform in an informal writer's round at the famed Club Nokia. The Oct. 13 show in Nashville will also feature Vince, alongside Keith Urban, Jason Aldean, Faith Hill, Taylor Sw...

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By Stephen L. Betts Shaw tells Australia's ABC News that the first of the five "webisodes" of the series, titled 'RockDogs,' will premiere Oct. 2. "It will be riddled with most of my experiences with Keith Urban and the other bands and people I met who gave me scenarios of situations," says Shaw, adding that "th...

By Gayle Richardson Coming to Nashville -- that was a time in my life that will always give me a great feeling, because it was really exciting to be a little kid dreaming about Nashville and one day to be driving around here and realizing you're in it," he tells GAC. "I still remember taking some freeway drives whe...

By Gayle Richardson George was joined by more than 24 artists and entertainers who donated their time for the event - a salute to the undisputed King of modern country music. The list of performers included Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Faith Hill, Jamie Foxx, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift and To...

By Gayle Richardson Reba McEntire, Keith Urban, Alan Jackson and Keith Anderson are all taking their clothes off -- for a good cause. The celebrities are among those who have donated autographed articles of clothing to raise funds for Porter's Call, a Tennessee-based organization providing free counseli...

By Stephen L. Betts Keith Urban's 'Escape Together World Tour' kicks off tonight (May 7) at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, but there's been a last-minute change in the lineup. Jason Aldean will take the stage as opening act for tonight's show, replacing Sugarland, whose lead singer Jennifer N...

By The Boot Staff Doting dad Keith Urban holds his adorable 10-month-old daughter, Sunday, in one hand and a diaper bag in the other as he makes his way out of a Nashville office building. Keith kicks off his Escape Together World Tour tonight in Uncasville, Connecticut. Click here for a full list of tour date...

By Beville Darden Fans are hoping to get Capitol Records' attention, as they ask the Nashville record label to make 'Til Summer Comes Around' the next single from Keith Urban's 'Defying Gravity' album. The Urban Country blog is prompting readers to sign a petition requesting that the "compellingly beaut...

By Beville Darden Keith also wants to give fans a chance to shine on the new tour. He's asking for videos of people singing his big hit, 'You'll Think of Me.' A montage of those fan-submitted videos will be shown on the big screen during Keith's live performances.

By Vernell Hackett Monty Powell talked to The Boot about his latest No. 1 hit with Keith Urban, 'Sweet Thing.' Powell and Urban have been writing together for 15 years and have celebrated several big hits together. The two were honored with a party celebrating 'Sweet Thing' Thursday in Nashville.

By Vernell Hackett Keith Urban has signed on to join an already stellar list of performers Wednesday night at the Nashville4Africa concert, organized by Big & Rich's 'Big' Kenny Alphin. Also new on the bill are the Lost Boys of Sudan, the Steeldrivers, Third Day and Jars of Clay. Among the entertainers al...

By Stephen L. Betts When Keith Urban's not out on the road making music, he's hanging out at home in Nashville making music (of sorts) with wife Nicole Kidman and nine-month-old daughter Sunday Rose. One might expect he'd be serenading the women in his life with sweet lullabies or gushy love songs. But ... Madonna...

By Beville Darden Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift follow Sugarland with four nods apiece. Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellum and Toby Keith each have three. The most recognized video directors in this round of nominations are Shaun Silva and Deaton Flanigan, who also have three nods each. (See a full...

By Gayle Richardson Filed under: ChatterThe Boot: Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman's baby girl, Sunday Rose, has affectionately been given a nickname, thanks to her striking resemblance to one parent in particular. "It's fine by me, having a little Keith-ette. When he goes away, I can look at her and... Read more