Calling himself “immensely blessed” to have welcomed daughter Sunday Rose, 16 months, with wife Nicole Kidman, country crooner Keith Urban admits in a new interview the couple were unsure if they would ever become parents together.
“We didn’t get to meet each other in our 20s and 30s,” he points out to the UK’s Hello! magazine, “so we thought maybe that’s not our journey, we’re fine with that.” Keith adds,
“It’s such a miracle to have her.”
Although their marriage has offered its fair share of ups and downs, Keith says they are united in their commitment. “We want the best for each other and we support each other to do that,” he explains.
Whether that includes more children remains to be seen, however. Keith elaborates,
“We’re very grateful and not pining for anything more than what we’ve got. But if another was to come, Nicole and I would be very happy.”
Sunday is the first child together for Keith and Nicole, who married in 2006. Nicole is also mom to Isabella Jane, 17 next month, and Connor Anthony, 14, with ex-husband Tom Cruise.
If you love country music and the people who write the lyrics and the melodies that make up the songs, those who travel the highways east to west, south to north with a song on their lips and love in their heart, I suggest you continue to read this. Keith Urban was 7 years old when he told his father, “I am going to live in Nashville and make records. I love this town,” added Keith. “My wife loves this town. Our daughter was born here.” Playing guitar by the time he was 6 years old, Keith allowed, “I don’t know what it was but I found this connection in music.”
During the Nashville stop of his Escape Together World Tour, the Aussie native told the sold-out crowd at the Sommet Center on Saturday night (Aug. 29) the news about Oct. 13. He’d quietly talked with Vince Gill, president of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, about an idea he had to generate money for the museum. Vince was already involved with his idea of “All for the Hall. “Count me in,” said Vince when Keith approached him. Keith talked to his friend Faith Hill and his opening acts Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Taylor Swift and his friend Brad Paisley. “I’m in,” they said. So Keith set the date. It’s a “We’re All For the Hall” benefit concert, at the Sommet on Oct. 13.
At a press conference Keith explained that he’ll open the show with his band and play an hour. He and Vince will put together a band to play with all the other guests. Vince and Keith will join the band as their guests take their turn for the Hall. Brad and Keith will no doubt pick together and I’m betting Vince will join right in.
Keith spoke up about the importance of knowing the music’s beginning. That’s what the Hall of Fame is all about. It’s about those who came before us. Uncle Dave Macon, Bill Monroe and Hank Williams and the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers and all the others who plowed the ground for the first 25 years. We are so blessed to have all their memorabilia in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. As a child sitting in the floor of his family home in Australia, Keith would listen to the music and read the liner notes on the back of the albums. Talking with Keith is like talking with a historian. He probably knows as much about Don Williams as Don’s family. So Keith wants to protect all the history.
Keith and Vince were very entertaining at the Hall. Vince said he and Keith had a lot in common, “We both like to play guitar and both of our wives make more money than we do.” Now that brought a great big laugh
The Charlottesville stop of Grammy Award winner Keith Urban’s Escape Together World Tour will feature another treat for country music fans: multi-platinum band Sugarland.
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“Sugarland and I are going to give our fans in Charlottesville a night to remember,” Urban said in a recent statement. “A night where they’ll be able to leave their cares at the door and just let loose for a few hours.”
This year has shaped up to be a busy one for Urban. Not only did he launch a North American concert tour that will make stops in 58 cities, but he also released his new album, “Defying Gravity” on March 31. The CD’s first single, “Sweet Thing,” has become his 18th Top 5 country single.
The New Zealand-born, Australian artist has released six studio albums, one greatest hits album and 25 singles. Urban is married to actress Nicole Kidman, who last year gave birth to their daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban.
Urban is slated to appear with Sugarland on 20 tour stops.
Keith Urban has urged fans not to believe rumours that his wife Nicole is not pregnant.
Despite pictures of the Aussie actress which showed her with a more curvacious tummy, Keith is adamant.
He said: “No, not true.
“A little bit of tweaking (of photos) does that. If we were to have another child though we would be very happy but we are more then happy with SUNDAY.”
Keith added: “We feel very blessed to have one child.”
Nicole credits bathing in “fertility waters” for getting pregnant with their daughter.
She swam in the Oz Outback while shooting Baz Luhrmann epic Australia.