Keith Urban Net Worth

How much is Keith Urban worth?

Net Worth:$80 Million
Profession:Professional Singer
Date of Birth:October 26, 1967
Country:New Zealand (Australian)
Height:
1.78 m

About Keith Urban

This country crooner from down under gets the ladies shaking in their boots with his hits like ‘Somebody Like You’ and ‘Sweet Thing.’ Born in New Zealand Keith Urban was raised in Australia, and is a contemporary country singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has been winning contests and performing regularly since he was 8. His life-long dream was to make it as a professional country singer in Nashville, and that is exactly what he did after he moved to Music City in 1992.

Following a brief stint in 1997-98 as the leader of the band, The Ranch, a three-piece country group that released one album, the group disbanded, opening up a solo career for Urban. In 1999 he released his first solo album on Capitol Nashville, which went platinum. Since then has released 12 studio albums, four compilation albums, and 55 singles. Urban has become one of biggest country stars.

Australian singer, songwriter, and record producer Keith Urban has an estimated net worth of $80 million dollars, as of 2023.

Urban was precocious showing an early ear and interest in music. He started guitar lessons when he was only six, after his father, a convenience store owner, had secured free lessons for his son in exchange for hanging the teacher’s flyer in his store window. After mastering techniques with his teacher and at home, Urban began winning local talent competitions as an adolescent.

His rise to the top in country music is the story of an extremely talented and driven artist, but also one who had to take major risks in order to make it. Growing up in Australia, Nashville seemed far out of reach but it was always the pinnacle of his youthful dreams to make it as an artist in Music City. And so that is what he set out to do. In fact, he wrote it down and meditated on it almost daily.

He had won his first Australian Country Music Award when he was 10, the first of six he would win before his 16th birthday. At age 15, he dropped out of school to pursue a music career. He had heard the Dire Straits for the first time and studied Mark Knopfler’s guitar work intensely.  

Through this influence, Urban forged what would become his signature sound: country soul with rock-infused, top 40 flair.

In 1990, he was signed with EMI Australia and became an Australian country music sensation. He made four number one hits in the South Pacific, nonetheless he still remained restless. While Australian fame grew, the beating heart of the music he loved was in Tennessee. In 1992 Urban moved to Nashville.  

There he met veterinary technician Laura Seigler and the two would date for 10 years. But America didn’t bring the type of success the multi award-winning singer was used to. “I knew I would be a little fish in a big sea,” he said later of the move, “but that’s the appeal.”

Despite having achieved his boyhood dream, to be making music in Tennessee, his career would largely stagnant for five years. During that time and he would also develop a cocaine problem but it was the band he started called The Ranch in 1997, that got him on the road to redemption. Together they released one well-received album, but later disbanded in 1998. He checked himself into rehab that same year.

After he made it clean, he amalgamated his all into his debut album, Keith Urban. He was invited to play on famous musicians’ CD’s (including Garth Brooks and The Dixie Chicks) and the album produced three top five hits. It wasn’t until his 2002 Golden Road however that he found himself with three singles at number 1. The album went triple platinum and established him as country music star to be taken seriously.

Be Here, in 2004 would top the previous one, selling four million copies.   A feat that he wouldn’t repeat even though The Story So Far sold well. Urban also maintains 7 million Spotify monthly listeners.

“There’s no rule book or some sort of system for me to follow. There might be a set of rituals, but there’s no structured system that seems to work every time. It’s just spontaneous.” — Keith Urban

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