KEITH URBAN
World Tour - Australia
Keith Urban NSW Concert
Venue: Hordern Pavilion
Moore Park NSW 2021
Date & Time
Sat 29 Mar 2008 8:00PM
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Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967, New Zealand), is a New Zealand-born Australian Grammy Award winning country music singer. Active in Australia since 1990, Urban has since seen a successful country music career in the United States of America as well, having received two Grammy Awards and multiple ARIA awards.
Two of his albums, Be Here (2004) and his latest album, Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing (2006), have reached the Top 10 on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart. He has scored seven number one songs in the United States to date and a total of sixteen top ten hits, including "Somebody Like You," "You'll Think of Me," "Days Go By," "Making Memories of Us," "Stupid Boy," and "Better Life."
Awards
* 1977 - CCMA Best Solo Act(Junior)
* 1978 - CCMA Special Encouragement Award (10 Years & under)
* 1980 - CCMA Best Junior Guitarist
* 1981 - CCMA Best Gospel Singer
* 1982 - CCMA Best Duet
* 1982 - CCMA Best Junior Guitarist
* 1983 - CCMA Junior Male Vocalist
* 1990 - CMAA Star Maker Award
* 1991 - CMAA Golden Guitar
* 1991 - CMAA Best New Talent
* 1992 - CMAA Golden Guitar
* 1992 - CMAA Male Vocalist
* 1992 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist
* 1997 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist
* 1998 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist
* 2001 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist
* 2001 - ACM Top New Male Vocalist
* 2001 - CMA Horizon Award (first non-American)
* 2001 - ARIA Outstanding Achievement Award
* 2001 - VMA Male Vocalist Award
* 2001 - Mo Australian Show Business Ambassador of the Year
* 2003 - ARIA Country Album of the Year (Golden Road)
* 2003 - Country Weekly Fan Favorite Award for Favorite New Artist
* 2003 - BMI Song of the Year Category for "Somebody Like You"
* 2003 - TCMA Video Clip of the Year - "Somebody Like You"
* 2004 - CMA Male Vocalist of the Year (first non-American)
* 2004 - FCMA Best Foreign Music
* 2005 - Voted Country Music's Hottest Bachelor by Country Weekly
* 2005 - #6 on OK! Magazine's Hollywood's Hottest Bachelor list
* 2005 - CMT Music Awards Video of the Year - "Days Go By"
* 2005 - ACM Album of the Year - "Be Here"
* 2005 - ACM Top Male Vocalist
* 2005 - French Association of County Music Artist of the Year
* 2005 - ARIA Country Album of the Year (Be Here)
* 2005 - CMA International Artist of the Year!
* 2005 - CMA Male Vocalist of the Year (Second year in a row)
* 2005 - CMA Entertainer of the Year (first non-American male. First non-American was Shania Twain in 1999)
* 2005 - Radio Music Awards Artist of the Year
* 2005 - Billboard Music Award: Top-selling Pop Catalog Album of the Year "Golden Road"
* 2006 - XM Country Artist of the Year
* 2006 - XM "So You Wanna Be a Movie Star?" Artists We'd Like to See Crossover to Films
* 2006 - Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for "You'll Think Of Me"
* 2006 - CMT Music Awards Video of The Year - "Better Life"
* 2006 - ACM Top Male Vocalist of the Year (Second year in a row)
* 2006 - Voted Country Music's Sexiest Man by Country Weekly.
* 2006 - ASCAP'S Most-Performed Country Songs of 2006 "Better Life" written by Richard Marx and Keith Urban, "Tonight I Wanna Cry" written by Monty Powell and Keith Urban and "Making Memories of Us" written by Rodney Crowell (3 out of 56)
* 2006 - CMA Male Vocalist of the Year (Third year in a row - matching George Strait who won in 1996 through 1998)
* 2006 - French Association of Country Music Award for Best Live Performance (this is his 4th FACM award)
* 2006 - Voted #1 on CMT's 20 Sexiest Men
* 2006 - Country Music Association of Australia award for Outstanding Achievement
* 2007 - GAC Network's Artist of The Month for July
* 2007 - ARIA Country Album of the Year (Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing)
* 2008 - Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for "Stupid Boy"
Gold/Platinum singles, videos and albums
* 1999 - Self-Titled Keith Urban 1999 certified Platinum in 2003
* 2002 - Golden Road certified Triple Platinum in 2005, Double Platinum in Canada
* 2002 - Somebody Like You (single) certified Gold in 2005.
* 2004 - Be Here certified Quadruple Platinum in U.S., Double Platinum in Canada & Australia in 2006.
* 2004 - You'll Think of Me certified Platinum in 2005.
* 2005 - Days Go By : Anthology (Import) certified Gold (Ireland)
* 2005 - Video Hits DVD certified Platinum
* 2005 - Livin' Right Now DVD certified Platinum in U.S. and Australia, Double Platinum in Canada
* 2005 - Making Memories of Us (single) certified Gold in 2005.
* 2005 - Days Go By (single) certified Gold in 2005.
* 2006 - Love, Pain and the whole crazy thing certified Platinum in the U.S., Canada and Australia
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