Oct 14, 1978

Dallas, Texas, USA

Usher Raymond IV was born to Usher Raymond III and Jonetta Patton, who lived in
Dallas, Texas at the time of his birth. Usher was primarily raised by his
mother, who relocated the family from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Georgia when
he was a child. He is now a five-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B and
pop singer, dancer, and actor who rose to fame in the mid-late 1990s. To
date, he has sold approximately 20.4 million albums in the U.S. and over 35
million worldwide. His 2004 album,... ... (read more...) Confessions, sold 1.1 million copies in
the United States in its first week of release - setting a record for the
most number of records sold in week for an R&B artist and has sold 15
million copies worldwide.