Keith City shocked followers in Nashville on Friday January 31 when he walked out on stage and joined Kelsea Ballerini for a efficiency of his 2006 track “Silly Boy”.
To loud cheers, Keith joined the singer as she carried out on the metropolis’s Bridgestone Enviornment, after Kelsea “painted an image” of a younger Kelsea discovering the track for the primary time. Watch the second under:
“I am most likely 12 or 13, and my mother and I reside on Fulton Drive in Knoxville, Tennessee, and I am upstairs in my attic bed room that I had painted darkish purple, and I am on my laptop computer – it most likely wasn’t an Apple but, it was most likely a Dell, proper?” she quipped.
“And I used to be on – youngsters, ask your mother and father later – MySpace, on my pal Courtney’s MySpace, and there was this track known as “Silly Boy” by Keith City and I simply keep in mind I had this visceral response to it.
She continued: “I had by no means gone by way of it. I used to be 12 or 13, but there was one thing about that track that made me, on this second in my bed room, go, ‘Oh my God, I wish to be a songwriter, I wish to do precisely what this track makes me really feel, that is precisely what I wish to do with my life.'”
As the gang started to comprehend what was occurring, Kelsea added: “And I believed, for little 12 or 13-year-old me, it might be actually particular to sing that track that was on my pal’s MySpace web page tonight. Please welcome Keith City!”
Keith, 57, moved to Nashville in 1992, and launched his self-titled debut album for the American charts in 1999. His sophomore single, “Your Every part,” hit quantity 4 on the Billboard charts, making him the primary male New Zealand performer to achieve the High 10 on the US nation charts.
He has gone on to win 4 Grammy Awards, and is the recipient of 4 American Music Awards, 13 CMA Awards, and 6 ARIA Music Awards.
“The fullest circle with my pal @keithurban in nashville,” Kelsea captained the publish on social media, and Keith commented: “Love ya KB and what a badass present!”
The looks comes every week after Keith returned to his dwelling after being inducted into the Roll of Renown on the 53rd Toyota Golden Guitar Awards in Australia.
The present came about in Tamworth, a rural city often known as the nation’s dwelling of nation music, and Keith was honored for his contribution to the Australasian nation music scene and can obtain the Golden Guitar Award for High Promoting Nation Album of the 12 months for Excessive.