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Usher Facts

• Does not like to wear slippers
• Considered any Busta Rhymes record “cool”
• The uncoolest person in the world is Satan
• Considers his hotel room the coolest place to take a date (Big Magazine – UK 1998)
• He didn’t get a role on Sister, Sister because he froze up during the script reading)
• My Way album is a tribute to Frank Sinatra
• Hated being compared to Tevin Campbell
• Once smoked weed (Upscale 2003)
• States that he’s good in bed
• The song “That’s What It’s Made For” is about his penis
• Swept the 2004 Music Awards by winning every award he was nominated for
• He has three singles from his album Confessions in Billboard top 10, a feat only previously matched by British bands the Beatles and the Bee Gees.
• Usher became the first artist in 34 years to top Billboard Hot 100 singles chart four times in a year.
• Usher launched the first-ever celebrity debit card. Usher’s debit MasterCard, is backed by the financial service group Bankfirst.
• In 1998, he was the opening act for Janet Jackson’s Velvet Rope Tour.
• Barbra Walters named Usher one of the 10 most fascinating people of 2004.
• In September 2007, Usher placed his Atlanta home in Country Club of the South on the market for an asking price of $1.95 million.
• He criticizes TV’s extreme makeover shows because people should learn to love who they are.
• His 5th album, Confessions sold over 1.1 million copies in its first week, the highest first-week total ever for an R&B album.
• At 12.1 seconds, he holds the record on Star Search for the longest note sung by a child. He set the record at the age of 13.
• He is the godson of actor Ben Vereen.
• He is a co-owner of the NBA team, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
• He has a road named after him. It is called “Usher Raymond Parkway” and is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Usher appears in Donell Jones’ video “U Know What’s Up”.
• He is signed to LaFace Records/Zomba Label Group.
• Usher was crowned the ‘Godson of Soul’ by funk superstar James Brown, after the two danced together onstage at the 2005 Grammy Awards.
• On July 4th, 2006, Usher was pulled over by police for driving over the speed limit. He appeared in court on January 18, 2007, where the judge ordered him to perform 20 hours of community service and fined him $540.
• Usher is a good friend of R&B singer Alicia Keys. They’ve known each other since he was 16.
• Usher attended North Springs High School in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
• Confessions sold over 8 million copies, making it the best selling CD in the United States for the year 2004.
• The first single from the album Confessions, “Yeah!”, featuring Ludacris and Lil’ Jon, has topped the US Billboard Hot 100, European, Australian, World, US and World R&B charts, World Adult, Norwegian, Swiss, Dutch and the UK charts in 2004, and it also reached number 2 in Canada.
• Usher’s favorite candy is M&Ms and he likes to sort them by color before he eats them.
• Usher has an unreleased CD made with Dallas Austin. It would have came out between his first one and My Way. This was confirmed in Request Magazine in 1998.

Interview

This is an interview that Usher did for Sky Magazine, July 2001. It was a tell-all interview done by Julie Taylor with photos by Roger Erickson/Art Mix The Agency. Many of the photos from that issue reached American magazines two years later. This is the toned down version of this interview.

 

• When was the last time you made a booty call?
  Last night.
• When was the last time you received a booty call?
  He explains that women constantly call him on his pager.
• They say that girls who are good dancers are good in bed. You’re a very good dancer does that mean you’re good in bed?
  I’m very good. It really depends on your partner.
• But what if the girl sucks in bed? Does that mean you suck, too?
  No. He goes on to explain how failure in the bed can be made up in other ways.
• What really turns you on?
  A woman with beautiful lips, nice figure, tall and sassy.
• Does he like begin chased by women?
  He says it’s sometimes cool to be, but he likes to know if the woman is really interested in him. He doesn’t like playing games. Unless it’s in the bedroom.
• So what are your favorite games in the bedroom?
  There is so much to choose from. Oral, foreplay and all of it has to be done right.
• What turns you off?
  A woman that has gas in bed.
• When did you lose your virginity?
  18. He was 15 when he had oral sex.
• Was it good?
  Yes. All the other times of having sex could never match the first time.
• Do you like having music on during sex?
  He thinks it turns a woman on and singing to her is great.
• How far do you go on a date?
  It depends on the date. If the mood calls for it, it can happen.
• What do you think of ladies who go all the way on the first date?
  He doesn’t recommend it.
• Practice safe sex?
  YES
• Is he a boob or butt guy?
  Butt guy. J Lo type.
• Date a stripper?
  Been there, done that.
• Can he remember all his sex partners?
  No, and that’s a good thing considering he doesn’t want to remember some of them.
• Weirdest sex place?
  Crowded bus, train, and in the backseat of his mother’s car with her driving.
• His Mom walking in on him and his girlfriend having sex.
  She walked in on him and his girlfriend in his tour bus.
• “T’work It Out” is based on:
  He flew his girlfriend in from overseas and setup a romantic evening with her. It was ended up being a five hour love fest.

Quotes

• Usher: I used to be the guy who tore off his shirt during every show. Now I’m a little more comfortable in my skin.
• Usher: [My son is] called Usher because he looks so much like me it would have been hard to call him anything else…
• Usher: (revealing he makes love to his own songs) Oh yeah, I have made love to a few of my songs. Love You Gently is one of my favourites. Make her call you ‘Daddy’ when you put that one on.
• Usher: The only reason I ever started singing is ’cause I wanted to own a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop.
• Usher (on his new album): It’s a story with layers.
• Usher (on him being a new dad): It was the beginning of a new life for me. Sometimes I’m just like, wow!
• Usher (on himself in his new album): It’s a new individual, a new artist… growth. You can’t grow downward, you grow upward — in this case, that’s been a testimony to my story. A new landscape: a married man who had a child.
• Usher: Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
• Usher: (Usher and fiancé release a statement in June 2007, revealing they are expecting their first child together) We are extremely excited at this point in our lives planning our wedding and the joy that comes with expecting our first child together. We hope people will be happy for us and respect our privacy during this happy period in our lives.
• Usher: I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she’ll care for me.
• Usher: The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.
• Usher: Lucy Liu, give me a call. Jennifer Lopez, we can dance meringue. Halle Berry, I understand. I will listen to you!
• Usher: I’ve been working so hard, I’m about to have a Mariah Carey.
• Usher: I’m a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
• Usher: I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice – she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye – and my grandmother gave me condoms.
• Usher: Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.
• Usher: Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It’s all work and no play.
• Usher: Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
• Usher: I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
• Usher: I think music is like a monogamous relationship, but acting in theatre is like having a different woman every night.
• Usher: I‘m not looking to rush back into a serious relationship. However, I have to be willing to give a woman a chance to show what she‘s got.
• Usher: I’m all too familiar with obstacles in relationships. There’s this safeguard… my grandmother, my mother and my brother. They are the guard dogs of Usher. If you get past those three, you‘re good!
• Usher: (on kissing Emmanuelle Chriqui in “In The Mix”) She was a great kisser. To be perfectly honest with you, she was the first woman that ever shocked me the way she did. The chemistry was there.
• Usher: Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you’re going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails, or something like that.

 

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