But his big break came when Usher brought Bieber to music mogul L.A Reid as a 'gift' when he was a 'beautiful' 14-year-old boy, Reid wrote in his tell-all memoir in 2016. One year on from ...

Music mogul and former X Factor judge L.A Reid signed Usher to his label LaFace Records in 1993 when the star was 14 years old, and quickly released his first single Call Me a Mack. In his 2016 ...

L.A. Reid, the man who helped launch the careers of both Usher and Sean "Diddy" Combs, shared in his 2016 memoir how Justin Bieber was brought to him as a "gift" by Usher when the young pop star w ...

Usher spent a year at 'Puffy Flavour Camp' under Diddy's legal guardianship Usher's journey to stardom took a pivotal turn at the age of 13 when record executive L.A. Reid signed him on and sent ...

Music mogul L.A Reid sent a teenage Usher to live with Sean 'Diddy' Combs despite admitting to fears he was being "irresponsible". He had signed Usher to his label LaFace Records in 1993 ...

including Teddy Riley and the duos of Babyface and L.A. Reid and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Thanks in part to this steamy boudoir confab, the LP took the top album of the year Grammy Award (along ...

Written by Houston along with L.A. Reid, Babyface and Daryl Simmons, the uptempo rock song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts, becoming Hudson's fifth No. 1 single.

Did you know Usher lived with P. Diddy at just 15?! Discover how this wild experience shaped Usher’s career and what L.A. Reid had to say about it! What are your thoughts on their dynamic ...

James Ingram and El DeBarge (1989) Jones used his star-studded “Back on the Block” album to prove that he still mattered as an R&B auteur in an age dominated by some of his inheritors, including Teddy ...

He later went on to found Arista Records in the 1970s. A decade later, he partnered with L.A. Reid and Babyface to create LaFace Records. Simmons, a Def Jam co-founder, is facing a series of ...