Keith Urban was the one being honored at the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards, but his acceptance speech focused on his gratitude for wife Nicole Kidman.
The country singer, 57, received the ACM Triple Crown Award during the Thursday, May 8, ceremony at Ford Center in Frisco, Texas. “I wanna thank the ACM Academy for this, and my wife, Nicole Mary, is here tonight,” Urban began. “I love you, baby girl. Our girls, Sunday and Faith, watching at home tonight, I love you both too.”
He ended his speech with a shout-out to his fans and crew before noting that his High and Alive Tour kicks off later this month. “I have a massive team that I couldn’t possibly thank by name, but I want to thank my team for working so insanely hard behind the scenes, because there’s no such thing as a self-made man,” he said. “I wanna thank my road band and my road family, and I wanna say a special thanks to all the fans that have been coming out to see us play.”
The Triple Crown Award is bestowed upon those who have won New Artist of the Year, Artist of the Year and Entertainer of the Year throughout their ACM Awards history. Urban previously received Top New Male Vocalist in 2001, Male Vocalist of the Year in 2005 and 2006 and Entertainer of the Year in 2019. Prior to Urban, Carrie Underwood was the most recent artist to earn the Triple Crown accolade during an ACM Awards telecast in 2010.
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Before Urban accepted the award, some of country music’s best artists — Chris Stapleton, Megan Moroney and Brothers Osborne — took to the stage to perform his greatest hits as a tribute to him. Moroney, 27, sang “Stupid Boy,” while Stapleton, 47, performed “Blue Ain’t Your Color.” Brothers Osborne closed out the medley with “Where the Blacktop Ends,” which featured a guitar solo from Urban himself.
As for Urban’s relationship with Kidman, 57, the couple have been married since June 2006 and share daughters Sunday Rose, 16, and Faith, 14. (Kidman also shares daughter Bella, 32, and son Connor, 30, with ex-husband Tom Cruise, whom she was married to from 1990 to 2001.)
Throughout their nearly two-decade marriage, Urban and Kidman have made a habit of publicly supporting each other at a slew of awards shows. In recent years, the pair’s daughters have also begun stepping out with their famous parents.
In April 2024, Sunday Rose and Faith made their first official red carpet appearance while supporting Kidman at the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala in Los Angeles. The teens looked all grown up as they posed for photos alongside Kidman and Urban.
During her speech at the event, Kidman thanked Urban, their daughters and her extended family, acknowledging the “enormous amount of luck” in her life.
“There’s also the most important thing, love,” she said. “Big, big love. And then right there is the love of my life, and the loves of my life. My daughters have never been anywhere publicly with me on a red carpet, tonight was their first night, so they’re here, Sunday and Faith.”
The following month, Urban revealed Kidman’s impact on his own career, crediting her with motivating him when she attends his concerts.
“It fires me up a bit more,” he told People in May 2024. “I try to impress her.”
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