Usher to Sing at Super Bowl Show in Las Vegas

February 8th, 2024

Usher is going to sing at the Super Bowl halftime show. The show will be in Las Vegas. He will sing his old songs and new ones too. His new album is called "Coming Home." Usher has won eight Grammy awards. He is thinking about having friends with him on stage. These friends are singers he has sung with before. He won't tell us who they are yet. Usher had a big show in Las Vegas. He says he will make the Super Bowl show feel like his Las Vegas show. He told a story about a problem he had before. One time, his hand got caught on a wire when he was singing high up. He was okay and still sang well. He hopes this Super Bowl show goes smoothly. Usher likes the music from Atlanta. He wants to show that in his music. Soon, it will be 20 years since Usher's big album, "Confessions." This album had very popular songs. Many famous singers have sung at the Super Bowl before. Last year, Rihanna sang and told everyone she was going to have a baby. Usher talked to people about all this. He did not just answer questions. He talked with someone from Apple Music and many reporters watched. Other singers will sing before the game starts. Their names are Reba McEntire, Post Malone, and Andra Day.

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💭 Discussion Questions

. Where will Usher sing at the Super Bowl halftime show?

. What is the name of Usher's new album?

. Who will sing before the game starts?

📖 Vocabulary

🌐 Cultural context

The Super Bowl is a big American football game in the United States. It has a famous music show at halftime. Usher is a well-known singer in the U.S. and has won music awards. Singers sometimes invite other artists to perform with them.

🧠 Further reading

List of Super Bowl halftime shows

During football games in America, there is a fun show in the middle. The biggest football game of the year has music in this show. At first, students with instruments played in the middle of the game. Then, more types of dancers and singers came. They had bands and people signing songs. A big music party started with famous singers and bands. For some years, the music in the middle was for all the family. Now, they have famous music people again. They sing and dance with others. The football people don’t give money to the singers to sing. But they pay for the singers' travel and other things they need.

Usher (musician)

Usher Raymond IV is a famous singer and dancer from America. He started making music when he was 16. He became very popular in the late 1990s. People love his songs like "Nice & Slow" and "You Make Me Wanna..." He won awards called Grammys for his singing. His album called Confessions was very good. It had songs like "Yeah!" and "Burn" that many people liked. It sold many copies. Usher worked with other singers too, like Alicia Keys and Young Jeezy. His songs "Love in This Club" and "OMG" were number one in the charts. Usher made more music in the years after. He sang with Pitbull in a song called "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love." His song "Climax" won a Grammy too. Usher makes a lot of people happy with his music.

Concert residency

Some singers do many shows in one place. This is called a "residency." A long time ago, singers like Liberace and Frank Sinatra did residencies in Las Vegas. They sang many times at one hotel. Celine Dion did a very big residency. She sang 717 times from 2003 to 2007. Lots of people came to see her, and she made lots of money. People call her the "Queen of Las Vegas." Liberace started residencies in 1944. He made a lot of money. After he went away, he came back and made even more money. He stayed until he was very sick. Frank Sinatra and his friends, the Rat Pack, also did residencies. Elvis Presley did too. At first, not everyone liked Elvis. But then, he did many shows that were full of people. He sang in Las Vegas a lot.