Keith Urban: ‘Nicole has been a huge influence on my creativity’

Country superstar Keith Urban tells Will Hodgkinson about his new album and lockdown with his wife, Nicole Kidman

Keith Urban
Keith Urban
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It was a rare moment of joy in the otherwise torturous One World: Together at Home, the global live stream where rock and pop singers sang from the imprisonment of their palatial residences. The pop-country superstar Keith Urban cloned himself twice to accompany himself on a rendition of Steve Winwood’s Higher Love — with a surprise appearance from his wife. Who happens to be Nicole Kidman. Rather than join the band, however, the star of Big Little Lies, To Die For and countless Hollywood movies limited her role to giving one of the Keiths a peck on the cheek.

“Doing home concerts has always been part of the picture. Now it is the picture,” Urban says down the line from his house in