Down Under cowboy

Keith Urban took out the Best Male Vocalist category at this year’s Country Music Association awards in Nashville. Urban was the surprise winner in an all-star American field, which included Alan Jackson, George Strait, Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith. Urban’s first two albums have sold a million copies each and his third Be Here debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart. A recent New York Times feature describes the NZ-born/Australian-raised singer as a self-made “country heartthrob.”