Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967, Australia), has enjoyed immense success in the United States over the last decade, with two of his Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena albums, Be Here (2004) and Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing (2006) reaching #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart. He has scored seven Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena number one songs in the United States to date and a total of fifteen top ten hits, including "Somebody Like You," "You'll Think of Me," "Days Go By," and "Making Memories of Us."
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In Nashville, Keith became a frequent user of cocaine.[2] After reaching a personal nadir in 1998, he became determined to give up the habit Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena and checked into Cumberland Heights, a treatment center in Nashville. After cleaning up, Urban released his self-titled American debut in 1999, which produced three top 5 hits and secured for him the Top New Male Vocalist Award at the 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards and Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena the 2001 Country Music Association's Horizon Award. Widely regarded for his guitar skills, he has performed as a session musician on albums such as Garth Brooks' Double Live, Dixie Chicks' Fly, and Paul Brandt's This Time Around.
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In 2005 Urban played in front of European audiences for the first time. In May Urban supported Bryan Adams on his UK and Ireland tour, which Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena included dates in Earls Court, London, SECC, Glasgow and The Point, Dublin. On June 6th a UK only album, Days Go By was released, this album contained songs from both Be Here and Golden Road .
Urban has recently performed "Better Life" on the CMA Awards and "You'll Think of Me" on the American Music Awards. He also performed at the Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena Grammys playing "You'll Think of Me" and "The Lucky One" with Faith Hill. At the 2006 ACM Awards Urban performed "Tonight I Wanna Cry" and played guitar for Brooks & Dunn's song "Believe."
On Monday August 21, 2006, Urban made history when his new single "Once in a Lifetime" debuted at #17, setting a new record for the Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena highest-debuting country single in the 62-year history of Billboard's country charts. The record was formerly held by Garth Brooks' "Good Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena Ride Cowboy" and Eddie Rabbitt's "Every Which Way But Loose", both of which debuted at #18. "Good Ride Cowboy" was the highest in the BDS era (1990-present).
Urban is also a winner of numerous "Golden Guitars", which are presented annually during the "Tamworth Country Music Festival" at "The Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena Country Music Association of Australia's Annual Awards" in Tamworth, Australia. He is also a former winner of the Toyota Starmaker Contest, Seattle Keith Urban tickets KeyArena which is held each year in conjunction with the CMAA Awards and the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
On 7 July 2008 Urban performed a cover of the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter" with Alicia Keyes as part of Live Earth.
