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From Usher With Love

Ian Gittins, Q, August 2001

He was discovered at 14 by Puff Daddy, wants to move like Fred Astaire, sing like Michael Jackson and talk like the Fonz. He sold seven million copies of his first record before his 21st birthday. He's Usher Raymond IV. "Puffy? He owes me," he tells Ian Gittins

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