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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Usher
- The RIAA ranks Usher as one of the best-selling artists in American music history having sold over 23 million copies in the United States alone. To date, he has sold over 65 million records worldwide.
- Usher has won eight Grammy Awards.
- Usher was placed by Billboard #6 on their Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years.
- Usher started off singing at a local church youth choir
- Usher’s mother left her job as a medical technician to manage his career.
- He first chance at acting came on 1998′s The Faculty
- Usher is a part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers professional basketball team. He is part of a group which bought the team with a reported total purchase price of $375 million.
- In 2001, Usher began dating former TLC member Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas until 2003
- Usher married Tameka Foster in 2007. The couple went through a very public child custody dispute. Usher is seeking full custody of his two sons from Foster, accusing her of being unstable, inattentive, and irresponsible, while Foster’s attorneys have attempted to reveal Usher’s philandering ways as the cause of her depression. Foster also accused Usher of being an absentee father who is too busy with his career, she also accused him of using drugs in front of the kids. It was also revealed in open court that Usher had bedded one of the bridesmaids from the couple’s 2007 wedding. On August 24, 2012; it was announced that Foster lost the custody battle and that a judge has awarded Usher primary custody of their two sons.
- Usher 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”.
