Keith Urban opens up about missing family amid Nicole | Music News

Keith Urban is reflecting on the emotional toll of a touring musician’s life, just weeks after his 19-year marriage to Nicole Kidman got here to an end.

The Grammy Award winner, 57, shared intimate particulars about the loneliness and hardship that comes with life on the street during an unreleased episode of his new CBS and Paramount competitors sequence, The Road, premiering October 19.

His candid remarks arrived as Kidman filed for divorce on September 30, ending their marriage that started in 2006.

Sources beforehand indicated that Kidman, with whom he shares daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14, had been stored aside from Urban due to their hectic filming and touring schedules.

In the sequence premiere, Urban didn’t draw back from describing the brutal actuality of being separated from family members for prolonged intervals.

“Where do we start? It’s a calling, and you’re going to do it or you’re not going to make it,” Urban said.

He then detailed the precise moments when the isolation turns into insufferable.

“When you wake up on a tour bus at 3:30 in the morning and you’re sick as a dog, you’re in the middle of nowhere and you’ve got to play your fifth show later that night, and you haven’t slept, and you miss your friends, and you’re missing your family, and you’re completely lonely and miserable and sick, and you say to yourself, ‘Why am I doing this?'” Urban recounted.

“The only answer can be: Because this is what I’m born to do.”

The show follows 12 rising musicians – Adam Sanders, Billie Jo Jones, Blaine Bailey, Briana Adams, Britnee Kellogg, Cassidy Daniels, Channing Wilson, Cody Hibbard, Forrest McCurren, Jenny Tolman, Jon Wood, and Olivia Harms – as they compete as opening acts at venues across the nation.

Gretchen Wilson serves as the tour supervisor, while Blake Shelton and Taylor Sheridan are government producers.

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The program goals to give viewers “exclusive access to behind-the-scenes workings of the music industry” as rising musicians “pile into a tour bus and tackle a grueling schedule in pursuit of their dreams.”

Urban and Kidman had maintained a comparatively personal marriage during their almost 20 years together.

In 2022, Urban insisted publicly that he and his spouse had been “as normal as you get.”