Keith Urban is one of country music's biggest stars and never fails to win the crowd over with his incredible stage presence. And yet, the Australian icon wasn't always the confident and cool crooner that we know and love. Keith got candid about being shy as a child, a trait that plagued him for years until a fellow performer gave him a golden nugget of advice. "It was like a little shield, like Linus with his security blanket, so it was quite comforting to have a guitar," he said of his preferred instrument.

The father of two added that he wasn't a natural performer as a teen, but was inspired to become an artist after receiving some words of wisdom from the frontman of a band he was playing in at the time. As per Country Now , the Florida-born singer who led Keith's band took h

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