Rapper Usher decided to open a youth camp for the young undiscovered talents, to help them with their career. The R&B singer, who started to sing at age 6, went in Atlanta for Camp New Look, a program he has recently started for minority youth in his home city.
The camp caters to approximately 150 campers aged 8 to 18, and operates out of the historic Black college Clark Atlanta University. For about two weeks, the little talents will focus on either singing, dancing, or basketball and learn about the respective industries.
"This is truly about learning the business side," Usher said Monday. "You're not going to learn it all overnight, but maybe, just maybe, you'll learn enough to change your life."
Usher Raymond IV, born October 14, 1978 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been a popular R&B and pop music performer since the early 1990s. By the 2000s, Raymond was among the most popular performers in his genre, and achieved significant sales and chart success from his albums and singles.
The first single from the album "Yeah!" featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon has topped the US Billboard Hot 100, European, Australian, World, US and World R&B charts, World Adult, Norwegian, Swiss, Dutch and the UK charts in 2004, and it also reached number 2 in Canada.
Usher won a Grammy Award for "Best Male R&B Vocal" in the Grammy Awards of 2001 for "U Remind Me" off his 8701 album. Confessions sold over 9 million copies making it the best selling CD in the United States for the year 2004. (Wikipedia)
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