Usher Raymond IV, better known as Usher, is an American singer/songwriter, businessman, and dancer. At just the age of 12, he was put in singing lessons and rose to stardom in the 1990’s with the release of his second album “My Way.” Confessions established him as one of the best-selling musical artists of the 2000s decade and in 2009, Billboard also named him the second most successful artist of the 2000s decade.