101 Facts About Usher Raymond IV

1. In 2004, Usher Raymond IV performed at the MTV Video Music Awards, and he signed with MTV Films to star in and be the executive producer of a big-screen film.

2. Usher Raymond IV rereleased it with four new tracks, including a duet with Alicia Keys that became a hit.

3. Usher Raymond IV told Jenel Smith and Marilyn Beck in the Los Angeles Daily News, "If there was a class over at Miramax, I guess I would be the [teacher's pet].

4. Usher Raymond IV began acting, appearing on the teen television shows Moesha and Promised Land.

5. Usher Raymond IV, always grateful to his mother for all her support, gave her a Mercedes 420 automobile and a Cartier watch.

6. In 1995, Usher Raymond IV was chosen to sing the Coca-Cola jingle in ads for the holiday season.

7. Usher Raymond IV told a People reporter, "That whole bad-boy thing, me frowning for the camera—that wasn't me.

8. Usher Raymond IV continued to compete in singing contests and was selected to compete on the nationally televised show Star Search.

9. Usher Raymond IV benefited from having an extended family of grandmothers and aunts.

10. Usher Raymond IV told an Interview reporter, "She showed me the difference between good and evil.

11. Usher Raymond IV spent his early years in the mid-sized Tennessee city of Chattanooga, where he sang in his mother's church choir and entered local talent shows.

12. Usher Raymond IV won his first Grammy awards for these songs, and about a dozen other industry awards for his work on the album.

13. Usher Raymond IV had already made his acting debut with a stint of several episodes on the television series Moesha and Promised Land.

14. Usher Raymond IV spent a year under Combs's tutelage, and the relationship between the two young men was not always a harmonious one.

15. Usher Raymond IV continued to enter competitions, and, around 1991, took home his biggest prize yet: he was named best teen male vocalist on the nationally broadcast television program, Star Search.

16. Usher Raymond IV has to travel with bodyguards to hold back the throngs of screaming adolescent females.

17. Usher Raymond IV took care to hone his physical image, working out with weights so that he could show off his buff physique on stage and dressing in European designer clothes.

18. Usher Raymond IV appeared on several episodes as Jeremy Davis, a boarding-school student romantically involved with the show's title character.

19. Usher Raymond IV spent six months living at Dupri's house while recording the album; the time together, he says, helped them understand each other, and helped Dupri realize the genuine growth Usher was experiencing in his life.

20. Usher Raymond IV recorded and released his debut album on LaFace in 1994.

21. Usher Raymond IV was born in Tennessee, and the state has a lot of pride regarding his roots.

22. Usher Raymond IV is an American singer, songwriter and dancer.

23. Usher Raymond IV stays busy with his charity, New Look Foundation, which was founded in 1999 and works to provide funding for children in foster care and service programs; holds conferences and camps for at-risk youth; and, ultimately, works to promote leadership skills for kids in impoverished communities.

24. Usher Raymond IV was quickly lauded for his fluid vocals and addictive melodies.

25. Usher Raymond IV was granted a 12-month protective order against Jones-Rakestraw in July 2012.

26. On September 2015, Usher Raymond IV quietly married his long time girlfriend and manager Grace Miguel while vacationing in Cuba.

27. Usher Raymond IV cancelled his performance at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy Gala in order to fly to Brazil to be with Foster.

28. Usher Raymond IV's was induced into a coma to aid her recovery and was transferred to a larger facility, the Hospital Sirio-Libanes.

29. In November 2005, Usher Raymond IV began dating stylist Tameka Foster, who had worked as his personal stylist for several years.

30. In 2003, Usher Raymond IV started working on the album which would become Confessions, which contained songs inspired by the personal lives of Usher and his collaborators.

31. Usher Raymond IV was selected among a 33-member delegate for the Presidential Committee for Arts and Humanities of the United States of America to Cuba seeking to strengthen cultural ties between the two countries.

32. In October 2015 Usher Raymond IV partnered with the organization Sankofa which focuses on issues of social injustice that disproportionately affect the disenfranchised, the oppressed, and the underserved.

33. Usher Raymond IV continued to endorse Obama in 2012 and supported on the 2012 reelection campaign.

34. Usher Raymond IV released an exclusive song "Hush" that was influenced by social issues and voting, In the video he features a motivational Barack Obama speech.

35. Usher Raymond IV stated "As an artist, I am often recognized for the music I make and the performances I give.

36. On January 31, 2018, Usher Raymond IV helped former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick complete his pledge to donate $1 million to oppressed communities.

37. In 2015, Usher Raymond IV teamed up with Anthony Anderson, Kevin Hart, Big Sean, Chris Paul and more collectively donating more than $500,000 in scholarships that was given to 20 students attending historically black colleges and universities.

38. Usher Raymond IV spoke to students at the Center for the Creative arts explaining the importance of education.

39. On February 12, 2015, Usher Raymond IV visited his former hometown Chattanooga making a surprise visit at Dalewood Middle School, the Orange Grove Center and the Center for the Creative Arts.

40. Usher Raymond IV was awarded this honor for his philanthropic work done by his New Look Foundation.

41. Usher Raymond IV has performed a public service announcement to promote Do Something's campaign for civic engagement.

42. In 2005, Usher Raymond IV is one among the artists who signed on for a Hurricane Katrina relief concert.

43. Usher Raymond IV founded New Look, a non-profit charity organization which aims to "provide young people with a new look on life through education and real-world experience".

44. In 2013 Usher Raymond IV partnered with Samsung shooting a 2:28 minute short film directed by Rich Lee that included his single "Looking 4 Myself" from his then new album.

45. At the launch of the game Usher Raymond IV gave a surprise performance of his song "Scream".

46. Usher Raymond IV was disguised as a street performer to surprise one of his biggest British fans, who was flown into Los Angeles as part of MasterCard's Priceless Surprises campaign in support of the 2015 BRIT Awards.

47. Usher Raymond IV became the third pop artist to own a large stake in an NBA team.

48. Usher Raymond IV is a part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers professional basketball team.

49. On June 28, 2015, Usher Raymond IV became partners with Yoobi the fast-growing school supplies company called based out of Los Angeles.

50. On March 30, 2015, it was announced that Usher Raymond IV is a co-owner, with various other music artists, in the music streaming service Tidal.

51. Usher Raymond IV appeared in Sabrina the Teenage Witch in Season 2, episode 6 playing the role of a love doctor.

52. Usher Raymond IV continued to make appearances in various television shows, including the period drama American Dreams in the role of Marvin Gaye.

53. Usher Raymond IV starred in the 2002 Twilight Zone revival episode To Protect and Serve as a police officer.

54. In 1999 Usher Raymond IV appeared as a student disc jockey in the teen romantic comedy film She's All That.

55. Usher Raymond IV has acted in feature films, debuting in 1998's The Faculty.

56. Usher Raymond IV made his television acting debut on the American sitcom Moesha in 1997 playing Jeremy Davis, the love interest and classmate Moesha played by Brandy Norwood.

57. Usher Raymond IV reached the finale again, and won with contestant Josh Kaufman on May 20, 2014.

58. Usher Raymond IV returned with Shakira to in season 6 of The Voice, which premiered on February 24, 2014.

59. Usher Raymond IV reached the finale with contestant Michelle Chamuel on June June 13, 2013.

60. Usher Raymond IV joined as a new coach on the NBC American reality talent show The Voice, alongside Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Shakira in season 4, which premiered on March 25, 2013.

61. Usher Raymond IV served as the contestant mentor for the Top 10 Week of Season 9 of the television show American Idol.

62. Usher Raymond IV has topped several Billboard Year-End charts including seven in 1998, seventeen in 2004, and one in 2010.

63. Usher Raymond IV broke the record set by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in 1940; their records spent 26 cumulative weeks atop on charts which preceded the Hot 100 era.

64. Usher Raymond IV spent 28 weeks at number-one in 2004 alone, marking an all-time record for most cumulative weeks spent atop in a calendar year on the Hot 100.

65. Usher Raymond IV has sold over a total of 75 million records.

66. In 2004, Usher Raymond IV became the top Billboard honoree by taking 11 awards.

67. Usher Raymond IV was inducted into the 29th Annual Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2007, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016 with a star located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.

68. On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 Usher Raymond IV was honored alongside Robert De Niro by the Gordon Park Foundation Dinner and Auction in downtown Manhattan for his contributions to the arts at a charity gala in New York.

69. Usher Raymond IV told people magazine "James Brown introduced me to soul.

70. Usher Raymond IV is a stronger, more assured singer than he was a decade ago, though the melismas in his lower range sometimes meander off pitch.

71. Usher Raymond IV received another Grammy Award nomination in 2006 through a cover of Luther Vandross's "Superstar" he performed on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2005.

72. Usher Raymond IV said in an interview with Sway Calloway; "the honesty of hip-hop and what Eminem was saying on his records it motivated me.

73. Usher Raymond IV was inspired by Frank Sinatra's My Way album released in 1969 so much that he decided to name his second album My Way.

74. Usher Raymond IV was not urban, but he was our version of what cool could be.

75. Usher Raymond IV had an attitude, a rawness that Michael didn't have.

76. Usher Raymond IV once told MTV, "He influenced me in so many ways, more than just music.

77. Usher Raymond IV was new jack swing oriented, while My Way contained influences of soul.

78. On June 12, 2016, it was reported that Usher Raymond IV signed a management deal with business partner Scooter Braun.

79. On June 9, 2016, Usher Raymond IV released a new single from his expected forthcoming album Flawed on the music streaming platform Tidal titled "No Limit" featuring Young Thug, along with a second single titled "Crash" on June 10 for all digital platforms.

80. Usher Raymond IV performed the song for the first time at the Tidal X:1020 concert on October 20, 2015, at Brooklyn's Barclays Arena.

81. On October 16, 2015, Usher Raymond IV released an interactive music video exclusively on the music streaming platform Tidal called "Chains" that featuring artist Nas and Bibi Bourelly.

82. On March 19, 2013, Usher Raymond IV announced that his eighth studio album, titled UR, was in the works.

83. Usher Raymond IV returned for the sixth season and his last act, Josh Kaufman, won.

84. Usher Raymond IV's growing, developing, moving, shaking, and being something that's new, cultural, and that's affecting people sonically.

85. Usher Raymond IV wanted to make an album that expressed where he was going sonically and not just where he's been for the past 12 to 15 years.

86. Usher Raymond IV stepped outside of what was safe and normal.

87. Usher Raymond IV commented on how Usher wanted to do things differently on the album compared to his previous efforts, saying: "What he wanted to do [on Looking 4 Myself] was explore himself musically.

88. Usher Raymond IV became the third artist to have at least one number one song from five consecutive studio albums.

89. In September 2008, Usher Raymond IV announced he would embark on the 15-date tour One Night Stand, in which the audience is only females.

90. Usher Raymond IV has found a new home on Broadway and is welcomed back anytime.

91. Usher Raymond IV made a spectacular Broadway debut, bringing a great dedication, work ethic and his amazing talent to the show.

92. Usher Raymond IV played the role of Flynn for two months but a case of strep throat brought an abrupt ending to Usher's run in Chicago, which saw a spike in ticket sales after he joined the cast.

93. In November 2005, Usher Raymond IV starred as a disc jockey named Darrell in the Lions Gate film, In the Mix.

94. Usher Raymond IV was featured in a remix version of Omarion's "Ice Box".

95. Usher Raymond IV completed two more films, She's All That, and his first starring role in Light It Up.

96. Usher Raymond IV developed a friendship with American record producer, Jermaine Dupri, with whom he co-wrote and produced several tracks for his second album, My Way, released on September 16, 1997.

97. Usher Raymond IV quickly adapted to the lavish lifestyle of Puff Daddy although in an interview with Rolling Stone, he expressed it as the "Hardest days" of his life.

98. Usher Raymond IV was going through puberty and having a difficult time adjusting his voice.

99. Usher Raymond IV was introduced on "Call Me a Mack", a song he recorded for the soundtrack album to the 1993 drama-romance film Poetic Justice.

100. Usher Raymond IV recorded ten songs with the group in 1991, and the ensuing album, Nubeginning Featuring Usher Raymond IV, was only made available regionally and by mail order.

101. Usher Raymond IV spent the majority of his young life in Chattanooga, Tennessee.