Keith Urban - The Guitar Singer

kickassoff · 發表於 2014-3-15 23:14:25

Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967) is a New Zealand-born country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and television music competition judge. When he was 2 years old, his parents moved the family to Australia, where his career eventually began. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992. Eventually, he found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Nashville and charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Still signed to Capitol, he made his solo American debut in 1999 with the album Keith Urban. Certified platinum in the U.S., it produced his first Number One on Hot Country Songs with "But for the Grace of God". "Somebody Like You", the first single from his second Capitol album, Golden Road (2002), was named by Billboard as the biggest country hit of the 2000–2010 decade. The album's fourth single, "You'll Think of Me", earned him his first Grammy. 2004's Be Here, his third American album, produced three more number 1 singles, and became his highest-selling album, earning 4× Platinum certification. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released in 2006, containing "Once in a Lifetime", as well as his second Grammy song, "Stupid Boy". A greatest hits package entitled Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in late 2007. Defying Gravity and Get Closer were released on 31 March 2009 and 16 November 2010 respectively. In September 2013, he released a brand new album titled Fuse, which produced two number ones on the newly introduced Country Airplay chart with its first two singles, "Little Bit of Everything" and "We Were Us". The third single, "Cop Car", was released in January 2014.

Keith Urban has released a total of nine studio albums (one of which was released only in the United Kingdom), as well as one album with The Ranch. He has charted 31 singles on the U.S. country charts, of which 16 have reached Number One (counting a duet with Brad Paisley and the 2008 single You Look Good in My Shirt, which Keith Urban himself previously recorded on Golden Road). He plays acoustic and electric guitar, as well as banjo, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, sitar, bouzouki, and drums. He is also known for his roles as a coach on the Australian version of the singing competition The Voice, and as a judge on American Idol. Since 2006, he has been married to actress Nicole Kidman.

kickassoff · 發表於 2014-3-15 23:14:26

凱斯·厄本（Keith Lionel Urban，1967年10月26日－），是一個在紐西蘭出生的澳大利亞鄉村歌手，曾獲葛萊美獎及澳大利亞唱片工業協會音樂獎（ARIA Music Awards）。艾爾本早年搬到了澳大利亞，並開始了他的音樂生涯。在1991年，艾爾本發布了首張自命名的專輯，並在1992年搬至美國之前，他的四首單曲上了澳大利亞的暢銷榜單。在艾爾本創建The Ranch之前，他找了份會議吉他手的工作。在Capitol唱片公司錄製了一張專輯，他的一首單曲還上了《告示牌》雜誌的鄉村音樂銷量榜。

還是與Capitol簽約，在1999年他在美國發行了他的首張同名專輯《Keith Urban》，此張專輯獲得了白金資格證明。其中的一首單曲《But For The Grace Of God》也使他第一次成為了全美第一。他的最大突破來自他的頭號單曲《Somebody Like You》，出自他的第二張Capitol專輯《Golden Road》(2002)。這張專輯使Urban獲得了第一個葛萊美獎，並使他獲得了他生涯中的第三個《告示牌》榜首名次。2004年的《Be Here》，又製造了另外三個Number One，並且是他銷量最高的專輯，並獲得了4× Multi-Platinum的資格證明。《Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing》(2006)中的《Stupid Boy》再次使艾爾本獲得了葛萊美獎。在隨後的2008年艾爾本又放出了他的精選輯《Greatest Hits: 18 Kids》。

到此為止，艾爾本已經發布了7張專輯（其中一張僅在英國發布），還有一張The Ranch時期的專輯。超過15首單曲上了美國鄉村音樂榜單，其中有7首排名第一。

艾爾本是個複合型樂器手，能演奏吉他、電吉他，還有六弦班卓、貝司吉他、曼陀林、鋼琴、布祖基琴和papoose。