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- Given Name - Keith Lionel Urban
- Birth Date - October 26, 1967
- Birthplace - Whangarei (pronounced 'Wong-A-Ray'), New Zealand
- Hometown - Caboolture, Queensland in Australia (suburb of Brisbane)
- Current Home - Nashville, Tennessee (since 1992)
- Education - Left high school at age 15
- I Never Leave Home Without... - Knowing where I'm going . . although sometimes I actually don't know until
I get to the airport and they tell me where I'm going.
- Influences - Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb, Don Williams, Mark Knopfler, Freddie Mercury, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson
Browne, Don Henley, Ronnie Milsap and Dolly Parton
- Other Professional Credits - Backing vocal on Shining Star by INXS, Appeared in Alan Jackson's Mercury Blues
Video, Guitar on Garth Brooks DOUBLE LIVE (Tearin' It Up), Guitar on Dixie Chicks Fly (Somedays You Gotta Dance), Banjo on
Sons Of The Desert (The Ride), Guitar on Julie Reeves (self-titled) It's About Time and You Were A Mountain
- Favorite Songs You've Written - Tangled Up In Love, My Last Name, Desiree, Walkin' The Country, Hank Don't
Fail Me Now (The Ranch Album), But For The Grace Of God, It's A Love Thing, I Thought You Knew and Don't Shut Me Out
- Favorite Songs By Others - Wichita Lineman and Galveston by Jimmy Webb; Heart Of The Matter by Don Henley;
Sky Blue & Black by Jackson Browne and You Look So Good In Love by George Strait
- Favorite Songwriters - Jimmy Webb, Rodney Crowell, Harley Allen and Vernon Rust
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- Instruments Played - Guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboard, gango, banjo and sitar
- First Musical Performance - Age 6 at guitar recital
- First Song Every Fully Learned - House Of The Rising Sun
- First Paying Music Job - They pay?!
- First paying Non-Music Job - At a concert lighting company
- Goals - To tour the world as a successful artist, make better records, write better songs, be a good husband
and father and make myself proud. I'd like to host a documentary type TV show.
- Favorite Sport - Bowling and 9 Ball (pool)
- Favorite Sports Teams - I don't follow any one team, but am easily sucked into watching almost any game.
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- Family - Parents Bob & Marienne Urban, brother Shane, sister-in-law Jennifer and nephew Blake
- Martial Status - Single
- Height - 5' 10"
- Weight - 155 lbs.
- Color of Hair - Blonde
- Color of Eyes - Blue
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- Favorite Book - Conversations With God (Neale Donald Walsch)
- Favorite Movie - Citizen Kane
- Favorite Actors - Michael Douglas, Jack Nicholson and Orson Wells
- Favorite Actresses - Sally Field and Susan Sarandon
- Favorite Food - Sushi (I'd probably eat it more often if it weren't so damn expensive)
- Drink - Vegetable juices (carrot, spinach, celery, apple . .)
- Favorite Snack - Chocolate banana Balance bars or Newman's Own dark chocolate orange
- Favorite Ice Cream - Nutty Buddy's, Snickers and Hagan Daaz
- Favorite Tennis Shoes - Skechers
- Favorite Restaurant - Cheesecake Factory or Shintomi's in Nashville
- Favorite Place - On stage on a good night!
- Favorite Color - Blue or black (though black is not really a color!)
- Pet Peeve - People who don't look you in the eye when they shake your hand and leave lint in the lint filter
or a dryer. And people who show you a bunch of photographs and half of them are out of focus . . I mean, man . . just throw
'em out!
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