- Born
- Birth nameKeith Lionel Urban
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Keith was born in Whangarei, NI, New Zealand. His parents moved when Keith was 2, to Queensland in Australia. Where he grew up. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1992. Keith became a naturalized American citizen several years ago and voted in the 2016 Presidential election. Keith was inducted into the Opry in April 2012 and into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2023.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sunny Sheriff
- SpouseNicole Kidman(June 25, 2006 - present) (2 children)
- Children
- A monkey holding a guitar above its head
- His guitar playing
- His handsome, pretty boy looks
- Checked himself into a rehabilitation treatment center of alcohol abuse [October 19, 2006].
- Married Nicole Kidman in the St. Patrick's church in Manly, a suburb of Sydney
- 230 guests attended his wedding to Nicole Kidman. Among them were Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe, Baz Luhrmann,Jane Campion, Hugh Jackman and Nicole's two children Isabella and Conor.Jim Carrey was also invited and greatly wanted to come, in fact he booked plane tickets to Australia, but last minute scheduling conflicts stopped him from going.
- Hugh Jackman sang "Tenterfield Saddler", a favorite of Urbans's and Neil Finn sang "Fall At Your Feet" and Baz Luhrmann read a love Psalm by New Zealand writer Joy Cowley at Keith's wedding to Nicole Kidman.
- He and Nicole Kidman asked their wedding guests not to buy any presents but to donate the money instead to some humanitarian organization.
- It's what we're torn between, isn't it? Bitching and moaning and complaining about this life, and yet not wanting to give it up for anybody or anything
- I knew I could contribute but people would offer me all sorts and behind my back they just found my quest laughable. It was awful, I'd be crying driving down to the studio some days, just crying, thinking I hate this, I don't want to sit in this room with some guy I've never met before and try and write a song. That's really awkward.
- It was the frustration, not being able to get in my car and drive home to center myself. I was in this surreal world full of nobody I trusted and getting hit on the head constantly. You're thinking `this is the best I can do and it's not working, what more can I do?' It was a cheap escape - well it wasn't cheap - but it was just a pathetic escape mechanism. I couldn't leave so I left by being somewhere else in my head. It wasn't the greatest career move, it distracted me from music. But when your entire life is centred on this one goal, are you really going let the drugs take it away from you?
- I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.'
- "It makes me feel a bit naked and vulnerable, but I think that's part of being true to yourself and committing to your music. It's therapeutic too going to the studio everyday is like lying on a therapist couch.
- American Idol (2002) - $5,000,000 (2013)
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