 Keith Urban is not an American-born country music star, but one imported from New Zealand and Australia. He was born on October 26, 1967 in Whangarei, New Zealand and raised in Australia. He harbored intentions of pursuing a career in the music business by the age of eight. Urban appeared on the Reg Lindsay Country Homestead television program, performing duets with fellow country singer Jenny Wilson. He also performed concerts rather regularly at the Northern Suburbs Country Music Club. By 1990 Keith Urban had become a star in Australia. His four number one country singles in Down Under gave him the confidence to move to Nashville, Tennessee, the world capital of country music. He worked as a guitarist for Brooks and Dunn and Alan Jackson while playing in a much smaller independent project. It took eight years, but Urban would become the first male Australian singer to reach the Top 10 in Billboard country singles chart. During these struggling years, he developed a cocaine habit, but quite the habit with help from a treatment center in Nashville. The success of "Your Everything" from the self-titled album led to the album reaching platinum status, his first of five straight platinum albums. He released four of those albums from 2002 to 2009, three of those (Be Here; Love, Pain, and the Whole Crazy Thing; and Defying Gravity) reached number one on the Country album chart. Only Golden Road did not reach number one, though it did peak at number two. Those five albums included 10 number one singles on the Country charts and nine gold-singles. "You'll Think of Me", "Days Go By", "Somebody Like you", and "Stupid Boy" are among those very best remembered of the country singer's singles. The second decade of the 21st century has not been as kind to the singer in terms of album sales, but he remains one of the most popular country musicians in the United States and the world. OnlineSeats has the Keith Urban tickets to see the singer songwriter as he embarks on tour.
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