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Usher

April 2024

  • ‘It was crazy and it was freezing’ … Lil Nas X’s tastefully pixelated Industry Baby video.

    ‘They’re not ashamed of their bodies’: Sean Bankhead on his raunchy dances for Beyoncé, Cardi B, Lil Nas X and more

    He’s the world’s hottest choreographer, the man who cooks up steamy videos and stage shows for giants of music. But does the Atlanta star ever think he goes too far? Quite the opposite …

February 2024

  • Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show<br>LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 11: Usher performs onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

    Usher and longtime partner married in Las Vegas after Super Bowl half-time show

    R&B superstar married Jenn Goicoechea, his partner since 2019, at Vegas Weddings hours after half-time headline appearance
  • Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show<br>LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 11: Usher performs onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)

    Super Bowl: Usher’s half-time show, the ads, Taylor Swift and everything but the football – as it happened

    The R&B star went shirtless, rollerbladed and brought out Alicia Keys, Ludacris and Lil Jon for a career-spanning setlist

    • Taylor Swift, Usher, Justin Bieber and Jay-Z: celebrities at the Super Bowl – in pictures

    • Usher’s Super Bowl half-time show review – a frenetic, daring nostalgia tour

    • Usher faces Super Bowl half-time show as Taylor Swift’s attendance remains unsure

August 2023

  • The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" - Inside<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Keke Palmer attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

    Usher’s Boyfriend is a ‘savage’ revenge anthem – on Keke Palmer’s behalf

    The music video winks at controversy after Palmer’s boyfriend publicly criticized what she wore to an Usher show

September 2021

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May 2021

  • ‘Impressively bleak and relentless’ ... DMX performing in 2014.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    DMX: Exodus review – a bold and bleak posthumous finale

    The New York rapper, who died in April, is strong and unsettling over grimy, atonal production, with guest turns from Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and Bono

May 2019

  • Usher in 2004 and 2019

    To be continued … can the sequel album save Usher’s musical reputation?

    The R&B star has hinted at a follow-up to Confessions, but history is littered with late-career gimmicks

February 2019

  • Rich the Kid.

    '10 gunshots' fired as rapper Rich the Kid targeted in armed robbery

    The Plug Walk star attacked while recording in west Hollywood with Usher – his second armed robbery ordeal in eight months

June 2018

  • Beyoncé.

    Beyoncé: 10 of the best deep cuts, rarities and Bey-sides

    As the superstar returns to the UK, here’s a sample of her lesser-known hits, featuring Solange and Dixie Chicks – plus how Lemonade changed the game

August 2017

  • Usher, who has been accused of passing the herpes virus onto partners

    Usher accused of sexual battery and fraud in lawsuit over herpes claims

    The R&B singer is accused of concealing an alleged herpes infection from people he had sexual contact with

January 2017

  • Yuna, 2016 Yunalis Mat Zara'ai

    Yuna on hijab style: 'I feel like the world is catching up'

  • The early morning sunrise warms the sky over the White House Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006, as an approaching storm moves in the Washington area, which is expected to bring in thunderstorms with gusty winds and heavy rainfall. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

    As sun sets on Obama White House, A-list stars party into small hours

May 2016

  • Jose Mourinho’s debuts a baby moustache.

    Stubble trouble – the meanings of men's wannabe beards

    If a man’s face is his personality’s canvas, what do the ‘soul patch’ and the baby tache signify?

October 2015

  • Usher dares fans to turn away from the lives of black people who died under suspicious circumstances in the US

    Usher and Nas target police brutality with powerful interactive video

    Singer and rapper sound off about police brutality in a forceful new song, that’s accompanied by an equally alarming interactive video

August 2015

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    Readers recommend: songs so bad, they're good

    Cheesy, catchy, cliched? Soppy, sexy, stupid? Search your shelves for songs that produce such a strong, ripe reaction they will help sort the bad from the Gouda, says Peter Kimpton

March 2015

  • Usher

    Usher review – not even outshone by upside-down twerking

    The R&B veteran shrugged off his declining chart fortunes with a stage tour de force that showcased his supreme dancing skills, writes Caroline Sullivan
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