Keith Urban Upstaged by 8-Year-Old

Posted by Sarah Norton on 09/08/2009
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Keith Urban’s recent show in Louisville was going as planned until he spotted a sign in the second row.

Eight-year-old Matthew Pinkham considers Keith Urban his musical hero, and he held a sign from the second row that read, “I want to play ‘Kiss a Girl’ with you.” The Country star then brought Pinkham up on stage and his performance blew the crowd away.
"They were literally mosh-pitting him to get up there!" his mom, Becky, told WAVE3.com. "He walked up there, put his guitar on like it was nothing, like he had been doing it for years!"
As Pinkham and his mom were leaving the concert and lots of fans were requesting pictures, he said, “Mom, I should have brought a hat and sunglasses!”
When fans started posting videos of the onstage collaboration on YouTube, Pinkham became a YouTube Guitar hero. Urban even called him “the bomb” on his Web site.
Not only did the little guitar player get the experience of a lifetime, but his electric guitar now features an autograph from Urban, along with signatures from Dierks Bentley and others he got at a special event at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital.
Pinkham has spent plenty of time there, due to a bone disease that prevents him from running and playing outside, which is why his mom encouraged him to pick up a guitar in the first place.
Watch a video of the special performance here.