Claim: Keith Urban was born in New Zealand but has worked on American albums.
Evidence: Keith Lionel Urban -LRB- born 26 October 1967 -RRB- is a New Zealand-born Australian country musician.
He found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch , which recorded one studio album on Capitol Nashville and charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Still signed to Capitol , Urban made his solo American debut in 1999 with a second eponymous album.
2004 's Be Here , his third American album , produced three more number 1 singles and became his highest-selling album , earning 4 × Platinum certification.
A new single , entitled `` John Cougar , John Deere , John 3:16 '' , was released in June 2015 as the lead-off single to his eighth American studio album Ripcord.