Country superstar Keith Urban will undergo throat surgery later this month to remove a polyp that was recently discovered on his vocal chords.

According to Urban’s publicist Paul Freundlich it is only a minor procedure:

“The surgery, an out-patient procedure, while minor, will require complete voice rest followed by an undetermined period of  recuperation.”

The surgery will be followed by an “indefinite” period of recuperation which means his All For The Hall concert to benefit the Country Music Hall of Fame which was scheduled for January 18 will have to be postponed.

Urban will also skip any other performances for the rest of the year which require him to sing multiple songs.

Before his forced hiatus Keith Urban is currently willing to sing one song per performance leading up to his surgery, his one song per performance rule means he will likely still perform during the  Country Music Association Awards show in November where he is also nominated for Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year awards.

Vocal problems have been a constant struggle in 2011 with R. Kelly undergoing emergency throat surgery in July to drain an abscess on his tonsils following by John Mayer undergoing a procedure because of a granuloma near his vocal chords and then songstress Adele cancelling the remainder of her 2011 tour after undergoing surgery to repair a hemorrhaged vocal chord.

These singers need to start taking better care of their voices or they’ll all end up sounding like modern day Axl Rose.

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Country superstar Keith Urban recently released a new cologne called Phoenix and to help him move some units talk show host Ellen DeGeneres had the singer on her show where they put together a little spoof of the new product.

In the “sexy” clip Ellen gets closer to Urban than wife Nicole Kidman would let most women as Ellen licks Urban’s face and throws ice at him as part of the sales pitch, now that’s sexy!

Here’s the clip:

I have to give it up to Urban, I don’t think I could have kept a straight face if Ellen came out and started doing that stuff to me in that blonde wig and robe. The country singer also has decent comedic timing and offered some great looks on his face as Ellen basically molested him in the strangest ways possible.

His website says the cologne has a “woody oriental” scent which basically provides no insight into what the cologne actually smells like.

What do you think about the new Keith Urban fragrance and the Ellen DeGeneres clip that preceded it?

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Kris Allen with Keith Urban

One of the most discussed performances of the night was Kris Allen and Keith Urban teaming up to perform “Kiss a Girl.” Acoustic guitar in hand, Allen joined Urban for a duet that, for many, proved to be one of the show’s most memorable moments.

Watch the Kris Allen-Keith Urban duet video below. Or, if you’re more of a Lambert kind of fan, check out Adam Lambert with KISS here.

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Nicole Kidman told a Tennessee newspaper, that she loves Nashville and delivers meals on wheels in her spare time, which given the reviews of her most recent movie Australia, she might have a lot more time for.

“I love doing that because it’s just being part of a community,” she says. “That is what is important to both of us, feeling like we’re normal and part of a community.

She also said people don’t always “recognise” her. This is most probably because as Sharon Osbourne said, she has has so much botox, her forehead looks like a “flat schreen tv”.

The Australian press however are whipping themselves into a frenzy about “their Nicole” and her desire for her baby, Sunday Rose to have an “American accent”.

“I’m glad that she is able to say she’s born and bred in Nashville and Tennessee. That is really lovely. I think it’s very appropriate, considering her daddy. His whole life was headed here; from a little boy, he dreamed of coming here. For him to be able to say his baby girl was born here, I think is very special. I hope she has a Southern accent.”

Given the poor kid is called Sunday, she is going to need all the help she can get, so we say the Aussie press should give her a break.

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Keith Urban rocked out at a down-home concert with his pal Kenny Chesney in Nashville, and even facing a crowd of 50,000 wasn’t going to stop him from beaming about his mega-pregnant wife and her rapidly approaching due date. Keith got ready to start in on “Better Half” at the concert, but before he did, he dedicated his work to Nicole, saying “I’m going to dedicate a song to my very, very, very, very, VERY pregnant wife!”

I hope that Nicole Kidman has an easy “natural lamaze birth” and just enjoys being a mom. (No, I’m not being sarcastic.) I’m just glad we’re not facing as much hoopla as Angelina Jolie’s whirlwind of a pregnancy has treated up to so far!

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