Keith Urban keynote speaker

Keith Urban has spent the better part of his life harnessing a deep-seated passion for music. This, when combined with his authenticity, talent, and driving musical inquisitiveness, helps to understand why he is one of the most successful and well-respected artists in the world. He’s won four GRAMMY© Awards, thirteen CMAs, fifteen ACMs, three AMAs, and two People’s Choice Awards and celebrated nine consecutive gold, platinum, or multi-platinum albums.

Well now it’s 2024 and the wait is over.  New music from Urban will highlight the entire year - songs to be released in advance of an expected Fall album release.  And they’re coming fast.   A “Straight Line” premiere in February and its first single “Messed Up As Me”.  2024 will see the culmination of new music that Urban has been working on for nearly two years.

The new music joins a list of 24 #1 songs including “Blue Ain’t Your Color”, “Wasted Time”, “Somebody Like You” and “Long Hot Summer”.  His duet with P!nk, “One Too Many” garnered over 650M streams, bringing his accumulated total streams to nearly 9.5 BILLION and run up his total record breaking 38 Top 10s.  In fact, the song appeared on his album THE SPEED OF NOW Part 1, which marked his fourth in a historic streak of simultaneous #1 album debuts in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

2023 saw Urban’s induction into the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame (by Dolly Parton), a return to the American Idol stage as both a mentor and performer and performances for ESPN’s Formula One Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix and the close of his critically hailed Las Vegas residency at the Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Urban’s “All For The Hall” benefit concert returned, a series of shows done in support of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum©.  The latest brought total proceeds to more than $4.3M.

Urban consistently reminds music lovers around the globe why he is one of the world’s best live performers.  His concerts have become legendary - as unpredictable as they are explosive. An experience of emotion, musical texture, energy, and showmanship.

Urban’s musical virtuosity and fluidity have made him the musician’s musician.  He’s collaborated with a diverse group of artists that include, among others; Billy Gibbons, Buddy Guy, Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, John Mayer, HARDY, Julia Michaels, Justin Timberlake, Dzeko, Miranda Lambert, Nile Rodgers, Post Malone, Taylor Swift, The Rolling Stones and Vince Gill.

He has long supported numerous charities. He is the first Ambassador of the CMA Foundation, an advisory board member at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, and is a longtime supporter of The Mr. Holland’s Opus Fund and The Grammy Foundation.