Keith Urban’s First Thanksgiving In Nashville
Growing up in Australia, Keith Urban didn’t celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, as it’s an American tradition.
However, when he got to the States and started to make a name for himself in Nashville, he celebrated his very first Thanksgiving with some musicians in town.
He told us, “My first Thanksgiving actually was with a family… it was the Crane family. I was friends with the guy called Billy Crane and his brother was the guitarist in Charlie Daniels’ band. And so the Crane family, very, very, very Southern, that was my first Thanksgiving and it was the greatest experience because first of all, I realized like, I make sure you don’t eat two days before Thanksgiving.”
He added, “Don’t eat anything for two days because not only are there going to be like eight dishes all brought by all the relatives. All the relatives are watching to see if you eat their dish. And Billy Crane was saying to me, ‘Oh, you got to try this, you got to try that.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m good.’ And I go, no, no, no, I’m saying you have because they’re watching. It was awesome.”
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Urban has been all over the world: he was born in New Zealand and was raised in Australia. He came to America in the 1990s to become a country star and, as we know, he made his dreams come true , and he has toured all over the world.
While he’s lived in the Nashville area since 2001, he and his wife Nichole frequently travel to Paris, Europe, and countries all over the world just on vacation or sometimes when she or he has business there.
In a recent podcast with actor Rob Lowe, Keith shared a place that he has never been, and it’s on his bucket list. It’s something he’d like to do soon.
Urban told the Brat Pack actor, “I’d like to see the pyramids. I’ve been to the Wadi Rum [in Jordan], we’ve done that, but I haven’t been to Egypt. That’s on my bucket list.”
He added, “I keep thinking about the pyramids because every time you see something that’s an amazing thing, like Sydney Harbour Bridge, and go, ‘Can you believe they built this back in the 1930s, this thing?'”
“And then I go, ‘And then there’s the pyramids.’ I say it all the time about anything that I’m amazed at.”
The singer joked that when he does finally make it to Egypt, he’ll have to convince himself that he’s not on the Las Vegas Strip looking at a casino and that he’s looking at the actual pyramids.
