Usher Biography

Fast Facts

• Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016
• Appeared on the cover of the December 2012 issue of DuJour magazine
• Founded New Look, a non-profit organization whose mission is helping young people with education and real-world experience
• Is the godson of actor Ben Vereen
• Scouted in 1992 by the brother of R&B producer Antonio Reid
• Quote: "If you don’t evolve you dissolve․ You evolve or you evaporate․"
• Quote: "The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention․"
• Substituted for Cee Lo Green as a judge in the fourth season of NBC's singing competition series "The Voice․"
• Acquired a minority stake in the NBA team Cleveland Cavaliers in 2005
• Appeared in several episodes of the TV series "Moesha" as recurring character Jeremy Davis
• Lived with producer Sean Combs as a teenager
• Won a bidding war to sign fellow singer Justin Bieber to his record label