Recommendations of the Editorial team
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were a dream couple for almost two decades. Hollywood and Country world. Film and music. Australia and New Zealand. As it is said, the marriage of the two is at the end, Urban has already moved out of the common property.
While Nicole Kidman has taken on a worldwide audience since “BMX gang”, Keith Urban is primarily known to a German audience as a husband for the actress. Perhaps wrongly, because the singer is considered a charismatic, humorous star of the Coutry Pop scene in the USA, where he has been living in Nashville for years.
His musician career began for the New Zealand native in Australia. First he played as a studio musician and with his band The Ranch, before his first US solo success followed in 1999. With the album “Golden Road” (2002) and hits like “Somebody like you”, he managed to get into the hearts of the American audience. The reward: 4 Grammys and 19 nominations alone.
Country – rock – pop
Urban worked with Pink, Carrie Underwood and Dolly Parton and had a chart success with almost all studio albums. With his gentle, clear voice and a clever sensitivity to the mixing of different musical styles, he has never been able to sound old -fashioned over the years, his songs about love, loss, everyday life and longing. His musical identity has nothing rural in itself, she is – yes! – Urban.
The fact that he also has stadium rock hymns and radio pop chiefs in his luggage (always with country-typical instruments such as Banjo and Pedal Steel) made it easy for him to find many fans. Sometimes his qualities on the guitar and open, warm humor are underestimated. He also likes to chat about tattered pants at appearances and signed a leg prosthesis in a concert, which was then passed on for crowdsurfing.
In addition to his music career, Urban also spoke as a juror at “The Voice Australia” and “American Idol” (USA). He also attracted attention with the public confession of how he had to struggle with alcohol addiction and – not least with the help of Nicole Kidman.
Urban’s down -to -earthness is an important part of his story: Before he became famous, the singer once played with his band on the baggage carousel in a tiny airport in Australia. To do this, they placed a very narrow piece of carpet over the luggage carousel. They built up their devices on this, completed a short sound check and started. Nobody knows how the mini gig came about today, but Urban assumes that her manager had negotiated this as a deal in order to fly to other concerts.