How old is Usher and what is his net worth?
RENOWNED R&B artist Usher started performing when he was only 12 years old and became a household name in the late 1990s.
The multi-award-winning singer and songwriter has a career that has spanned three decades.
Who is Usher?
Usher, whose full name is Usher Raymond IV is a 43-year-old American R&B singer and actor originally from Dallas, Texas, but raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
He joined his church choir when he was nine years old and was pushed further into music by his mom by the time he was 12 years old.
He recorded his first track for the 1993 movie Poetic Justice and dropped his first album, titled Usher, a year later without any success.
He went back to the drawing board and in 1997 he released his second album My Way which hit the no. 4 spot on Billboard's Top 200.
She spoke of his first album and hit song, My Way, saying “I didn’t tell the record label what I was doing. So now Usher said, ‘This time I’m gonna do it my way.’"
She continued, “See, they wanted him to be this bad boy image. Usher’s not a bad boy. That’s that whole image that they wanted. It didn’t work. So Usher said, ‘I’m gonna do it my way.’ And that’s basically what we did.
“So what see on ‘My Way,’ you just see raw talent.”
The album propelled him into the spotlight with three of his songs reaching the Top 10 including his chart-topping single Nice and Slow, and his songs You Make Me Wanna... and My Way reaching the no. 2 spot.
In 2008 Usher and Patton started working together when he rehired his mom as his manager.
Patton had managed Usher's early career, but the arrangement broke down in 2007 before they started working together again a year later.
A source told at the time, “[Usher] wanted [Patton] to come back on board and she decided to,” adding that the reason was reportedly due to a drop in album sales.
His manager, Benny Medina stepped down, telling the outlet, “With an artist like Usher, the bar is set really high. Whether it was management, marketing, or the music, we achieved a number-one single and a number-one album.
"It is a completely new day and time in music now. In four years, his audience, demographic, and musical direction has changed. Records like ‘Lollipop’ are the type of phenomena that ‘Yeah’ was in 2004. I had a great time and we parted ways amicably.”
He won his first in 2001 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his song U Remind Me. He has since been nominated for 22 Grammys and has won eight Grammy Awards, 18 Billboard Music Awards, and eight American Music Awards, and was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016.
What has Usher said about his Super Bowl performance?
Super Bowl LVIII will take place on February 11, 2024, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada and Usher was confirmed as the performer in the 2024 Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII halftime show.
Usher called the opportunity an "honor of a lifetime" in a statement.
"I can’t wait to bring the world a show unlike anything else they’ve seen from me before."
The Super Bowl half-time performer also shared details of the upcoming performance on an appearance of .
He told reporter Kelley Carter that he considered the struggles that past Black artists endured so that he could headline the Super Bowl LVIII half-time show.
They have two children together, a 1-year-old daughter, Sovereign Bo Raymond and they , Sire Castrello Raymond in September 2021.
"I'm definitely enjoying this little baby boom of ours," he said, adding, "This new addition to the family has just been exciting."