Usher turned a teenager's audition tape into a $180 million empire spanning music and sports
Billionaires Africa | 22.06.2026 17:32
In September 1994, a 16-year-old from Chattanooga named Usher Raymond IV walked into a New York recording studio that Puff Daddy was running, spent a year learning the craft, the discipline, the business logic of music from one of its most commercially ferocious operators, and then went home to Atlanta and finished high school.
