Usher is planning an “intimate” concert tour that’s just for the ladies.
The R&B singing star will embark on a fifteen-date One Night Stand Tour this Fall.
“This album … was definitely the type of one that was more intimate,” Usher told the Associated Press on Tuesday. “So what better way to get up close and personal than to make it all women?”
Usher has dumped noted Hollywood manager Benny Medina and returned to the waiting arms of his lifelong momager Jonetta Patton, E! News reports.
“Usher has dissolved his management arrangement with Benny Medina and has re-engaged Jonnetta Patton as his manager,” the mother and son said in a statement Wednesday.
Usher canned Big Mama as his official representative over the 2007 Mother’s Day Weekend due to Jonetta’s well-publicized beef with Ush’s wifey, Tameka Foster-Raymond. Read the rest of this entry »
Usher is the Myspace Celebrity: Featured Icon of the Week.
Usher has signed on to perform at the Democratic Convention in Denver next month.
“There’ve been offers to do things in and around the convention and we are just looking to see which one will be the most productive. He is obviously a huge Barack supporter,” the star’s manager, Benny Medina, told the New York Daily News on Sunday.
Behind-The-Scenes Video of Usher and his baby son’s August 2008 photoshoot with Essence Magazine.
Here’s a sneak peek at Usher Raymond and his infant son with wife Tameka Foster, Usher IV, on the August 2008 cover of Essence Magazine.
Usher is seriously considering rehiring his former momager Jonetta Patton after his fifth studio album “Here I Stand” stalled on the Billboard charts under new manager Benny Medina.
“People have been telling Usher to listen to his mother,” a source tells the New York Daily News. “Nobody knows how to sell him better than she does. Usher can be stubborn. But he may be ready.”
Usher fired his mother as the life-long head of his management team on Mother’s Day 2007 after Patton repeatedly clashed with the singer’s now-wife Tameka Foster.
Hot 97′s Angie Martinez interview Usher-June 27th, 2008.
Usher opened Tuesday night’s 2008 BET Awards with a performance of his chart-topping hit “Love In This Club.” Read the rest of this entry »
Usher on Jimmy Kimmel Live Video-June 18th, 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
