• Name: Usher Raymond
  • Date of Birth: October 14, 1978
  • Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Mini-bio: A young R&B star who makes music under only his first name, Usher Raymond has also forged a secondary career (fully billed) as an actor. Born in Tennessee, Raymond moved to Atlanta with his family at ... read moreage 12. Under the eye of his choirmaster mother, Raymond nurtured his singing talent in the church choir, but it was at a local talent show that Raymond caught the attention of LaFace Records impresario Antonio "L.A." Reid. A success with his first album at age 16, Raymond added acting to his repertoire in 1997 as part of the cast of fellow one-name teen music star Brandy's hit sitcom Moesha. Continuing to make the most of the late-1990s teen entertainment explosion, Raymond made his feature film debut in 1998 in the Robert Rodriguez-Kevin Williamson high school horror movie The Faculty. Though the success of his second album made Raymond Billboard's 1998 Artist of the Year, he maintained his dual career with a small part in the popular, teenage Pygmalion retread She's All That (1999) and his first starring role in the urban high school drama Light It Up (1999). Though Raymond proved he had the acting talent and presence to topline a movie, Light It Up did not exactly brighten the box office. Undeterred, Raymond next joined the all-star cast of the splashy TV miniseries Geppetto (2000) and co-starred with James Van Der Beek and Ashton Kutcher in the teen-dream big-screen Western Texas Rangers (2000). ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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Usher RaymondUsher Raymond mini-bio: 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, 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.

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