Keith Urban is heading house to host the ARIA Awards.
The nation celebrity and five-times ARIA winner will information proceedings for the 32nd annual awards ceremony, to be held Nov. 28 in Sydney.
In an announcement issued Tuesday, Urban had this to say: “I’m really looking forward to coming home and celebrating an incredible year of Australian music. There’s been so many impressive releases this year, it’s gonna be a tough competition but we get to recognize and honor the best of the best at Aussie music’s night of nights.”
Urban, who was born in New Zealand and spent his adolescence in Queensland earlier than heading to Nashville in his teenagers, is at present Spotify’s most-streamed nation artist born outdoors the United States. Earlier this 12 months, the singer’s 10th studio album Graffiti U debuted at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart, for his seventh high 10 end result. Its predecessor, Ripcord, hit No. 1 after its launch in May 2016.
“ARIA is honored and excited to welcome again celebrity Keith Urban to affix us in Sydney to have fun the 2018 ARIAs,” feedback Dan Rosen, CEO for ARIA. “To have considered one of Australia’s largest stars host this 12 months’s ceremony is simply phenomenal. Australian music followers are in for an actual deal with.”
Urban final graced the phases of the Australian recording trade’s flagship night time when he delivered the opening efficiency of the 2009 ceremony.
Nominations for this 12 months’s gala can be revealed at an occasion subsequent month in Sydney.
