Country Pop Bites: Keith Urban – August 27

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 2003 Keith Urban achieved platinum with his "Golden Road" album?

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Here are 5 little known facts about Keith Urban.

• Keith Lionel Urban was born on October 26, 1967, in Whangarei, North Island, New Zealand, and raised in Australia.
• He grew up listening to Country Music and by the time he was a teenager, he had won several talent shows and joined a country band.
• His first Nashville band, the Ranch, released a self-titled debut album in 1997. He decided to persue a solo career shortly thereafter.
• In June 2006, he married actress Nicole Kidman in their native Australia.
• He and wife Nicole Kidman welcomed a baby girl on July 7, 2008, and named her Sunday Rose Kidman Urban.