Even famous musicians like Keith Urban failed a class in school.
During an appearance on Thursday, September 26 at The Kelly Clarkson Showthe “Blue Ain’t Your Color” singer — a four-time Grammy winner — revealed that he failed his high school music class.
The conversation started with Kelly Clarkson (42) asking who was an “important music teacher” for him growing up.
“Oh my God. Mrs. Grimmer … She was my 10th grade music teacher, and she was an amazing teacher,” Urban, 56, said. “I don’t know how to read sheet music, and many kids in the class didn’t know how to read sheet music [and] they had no theory, but they were amazing musicians.”
“But we’d all throw away the music because it was all based on theory,” he continued. “She wrote a whole play for us to perform, and we were to be judged on the play and the performance. They all did.”
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Towards the end of the year, however, the director of his school said that performance was not part of the curriculum, so Urban “failed music” — “completely he didn’t succeed,” the artist pointed out.
The story left Clarkson in complete shock. “Funny!” – she exclaimed. “It’s like Neil DeGrasse Tyson failed science.”
Urban also appeared at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards on Thursday night, performing “Messed Up as Me” from his recently released album highly.
Meanwhile, on September 24, Urban treated the viewers The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to an impromptu rendition of Sabrina Carpenter’s summer hit “Espresso.”
Speaking to PEOPLE earlier this month, the “Somebody Like You” singer said he thought he would release a completely different record last year.
Keith Urban.
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“I scrapped another album,” he told PEOPLE. “I finished the album in early 2023, 13 songs, and I decided to release almost all of it.”
At the time, Urban wasn’t “getting the feel of the record” he’d hoped for.
“Sometimes if I don’t know what to do, I’ll start figuring out what I don’t want to do, and I made a record I didn’t want to make, obviously to figure out what I wanted to make,” he added.
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