Usher was born in Dallas to his dad usher and mum jonetta, however he spent most of his childhood in Tenessee!He was a huge fan of Michael Jackson as a child and used to imitate him in local talent shows.He then joined a boy band but his mother pulled him out to focus on his solo career!
After this he went into the tv show "starsearch" and got spotted and signed up by LaFace and thats where his musical career began!since then he has made 4 albums and sold approximately 30 million albums thanks to you fans out there!
His fourth album was 8701(released august 7 2001).He was quoted saying "I really analyzed myself as an artist and I found that i am really like a rapper who sings.I like to tell stories in my songs… I did a lot of writing this time. It was like an evolution and I was involved conceptually this time with every tune."Confessions was released just as "Yeah!" was in its 6th week at ..1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 5th week at ..1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. The album's 1.1 million unit first week was not only the highest first week numbers ever scanned by a male R&B artist in Soundscan's 13-year history (breaking R. Kelly's record of 540k for TP-2.com back in 2000) – but also the highest first week scans by any male artist since Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP (also in 2000, with 1.7 million units).He has recently finished working on broadway in the show chicago, and is finishing off his newest and fifth album due to be released in november....the rest is a secret im sorry you will just have to go and buy it!Find Myspace Layouts at www.layoutvault.com
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