Keith City Nonetheless Tries to ‘Impress’ Nicole Kidman With His Live shows (Unique)

In case you spot Nicole Kidman at a Keith City live performance, simply know that he’s going to take it up a notch. 

“It fires me up a bit extra,” he tells PEOPLE of his spouse’s attendance at this reveals, sooner or later after the couple made a head-turning look on the 2024 Met Gala. “I attempt to impress her.”

The couple shares two youngsters — Sunday, 15, and Religion, 13 — and so they’ll rejoice their 18th marriage ceremony anniversary subsequent month, so it’s not farfetched to imagine Kidman, 56, is already in awe of her husband. Nonetheless, City feels the necessity to get approval from these closest to him, together with his father, Bob City, who handed in December 2015.

“I really feel like I am nonetheless making an attempt to make my dad proud, and I feel my dad was proud years in the past,” City, 56, says. “My dad’s not even alive anymore and I nonetheless really feel like I am making an attempt to get his approval. So sure issues simply keep a part of my hearth.”

City will deliver that fireplace to Las Vegas this fall for his just-announced 10-show Las Vegas residency, dubbed “Excessive,” at Fontainebleau’s BleuLive Theater. No stranger to the playing mecca, having headlined residency reveals at Caesars Palace and Planet Hollywood, City mentioned he’ll method “Excessive” in another way than his earlier performances. 

“The one problem I get in Vegas is clearly you’ve got obtained an enormous combine of individuals. You’ve got obtained some hardcore followers, you’ve got obtained some those who know a few of your songs, however you’ve got all the time obtained those who don’t know something that I do, and so they’re simply curious,” he provides. “I attempt to get everybody related and into it as quick as doable.”

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Vegas audiences, he says, makes him show his value, which he relishes. And, the BleuLive Theater, which opened together with the resort in December 2023, is about up in order that power spreads all through.  

“I feel the room’s fairly magical. I obtained to see it perhaps two weeks earlier than the grand opening, in order that they hadn’t even completed. They had been nonetheless ending it out and it simply felt actually particular proper there after which,” City says. “It has a very large [general admission] space, so I thrive off that type of factor, so I am trying ahead to constructing the present in there.”

If Kidman is within the viewers, anticipate fireworks.

City is scheduled to carry out at Fontainebleau’s BleuLive Theater on Oct. 4, 5, 9, 11, and 12; Feb. 14, 15, 19, 21, and 22.