ARIA OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2001

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Keith Urban will be in his native Australia Wednesday (October 3) to receive the Australian Recording Industry Association's Outstanding Achievement Award. Urban will receive the award during the ARIA's annual awards show at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney. The honor recognizes extraordinary achievement by an Australian artist overseas or at home. ...

keith urban is to receive the "Outstanding Achievement Award" in recognition of his outstanding sales and chart success in the USA. The Outstanding Achievement Award recognises extraordinary achievement by an Australian artist overseas and or at home. Previous recipients of this prestigious award include Kylie Minogue, Savage Garden and silverchair to name a few. A Nashville resident for the past eight years, keith will be making a whirlwind two day trip home to accept the award.
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2001 ARIAs
October 3, 2001
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The ARIAs, or Australian Recording Industry Awards, are equivalent to the American Grammy's. The ARIA organizers, realizing the significance of what Keith had achieved in 2001, decided to honor him with their Outstanding Achievement Award, which recognizes extraordinary achievement by an Australian artist overseas and/or at home. Keith was given his award by longtime friend & Aussie Country Legend Slim Dusty, whom Keith had given the same award to the previous year. Keith had this to say about the honor: "What genuinely moves me about this is that it is a non-genre award. Every performer values it when they are acknowledged for their artistry rather than for just the specific genre of music they are working in. It's a great honor." Previous recipients of the prestigious award include Kylie Minogue, INXS, Savage Garden and silverchair. Keith then joined Kasey Chambers to perform her song "Not Pretty Enough". He wasn't originally scheduled to perform but stepped in after the band with which Kasey was to perform cancelled due to a recent car accident by their singer. What a great guy!