The next album by Usher was planned to be released under the All About U title, but its first single Pop Ya Collar was a disappointment in the USA and the release was postponed.

He also played one of the roles in the Chicago musical, acted in the Texas Rangers and starred in the crime comedy In The Mix in 2005. After this picture, Usher began to develop his acting career simultaneously with the singing one. Usher demonstrated his acting skills in the Moesha series and got his first serious role in The Faculty film. The same year, Usher already gave performances with such famous colleagues as Janet Jackson and Mary J. Thus, You Make Me Wanna… stayed in the US R&B chart for seventy one week. Disc My Way with sexual hits You Make Me Wanna… and Nice & Slow saw light in 1997 and proved to be a hot thing. By that moment, he made friends with composer and producer Jermaine Dupri, with whom he wrote the part of the material for the album. Having finished the school, Usher began recording his third long-play. The album was decorated with three R&B hits - Can U Get Wit It, Think Of You and The Many Ways. In August 1994, Usher released the self-titled debut album, produced by Sean P Diddy Combs. At the age of thirteen the young artist came to the Star Search show - his performances on the competition brought him the contract with LaFace Records, later his single Call Me A Mack entered the soundtrack of the Poetic Justice film. In Atlanta Asher attended the prestigious North Springs Charter School Of Arts And Sciences. Usher's mother and father decided that the big city would give more opportunities for the growing gift of their child - and were right. During the school study, Usher also took part in different talent competitions and his parents moved to Atlanta, Georgia. When the boy found out his talent for singing, he joined the local church choir. Usher Raymond IV, known all over the globe as simple Usher, was born and brought up in the town of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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