Keith Urban News Update…Keith Debuts Solo At The Opry…September 29, 2000

On this day in 2000, Keith Urban made his Grand Ole Opry debut as a solo artist. He first played the radio show as a sideman in 1997, backing up fellow Aussie Slim Dusty with the rest of his short-lived power trio, the Ranch. Three years later, the Ranch had dissolved and Urban had launched his own career, scoring a Top 10 country hit — and an invitation to revisit the Opry, this time as a singer — with his first single, “Your Everything.”