Usher performs onstage throughout the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LVIII Halftime Present at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Photographs)

R&B and pop sensation Usher revisited the most important hits of his previous, singing and dancing his approach by means of a high-energy Tremendous Bowl halftime present efficiency full of big-name cameos.

He opened a nostalgia-heavy set Sunday with “Caught Up,” teamed up with Alicia Keys for a steamy rendition of “My Boo” and concluded alongside Ludacris and Lil Jon for his or her crowd-pleasing, club-centric collaboration “Yeah!”

Usher additionally welcomed will.i.am, Jermaine Dupri and H.E.R. throughout the career-spanning set, operating by means of hits together with “Confessions Half II,” “Love in This Membership” and “Burn” at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium.

“They mentioned I wouldn’t make it,” Usher boasted. “They mentioned I wouldn’t be right here right now. However I’m.”

Usher’s efficiency started on the sphere, the place he navigated audio points on his headset mic whereas dazzling along with his dance strikes. He sounded a lot clearer upon shifting the efficiency onto his stage at midfield.

Surrounded by dozens of backup dancers and, at one level, a full marching band, Usher leaned into the Tremendous Bowl spectacle with frequent outfit adjustments – together with going utterly shirtless at one level.

Usher’s efficiency got here a number of weeks earlier than he celebrates subsequent month’s anniversary of his seminal 2004 album “Confessions,” which gained the Grammy Award for finest up to date R&B album and stays his best-seller.

Usher performs onstage throughout the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LVIII Halftime Present. (Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Photographs)

The halftime present got here two days after the discharge of Usher’s newest album, “Coming Residence,” which rave evaluations lauded as a return to the famous person singer’s R&B roots.

The Dallas-born, Atlanta-bred Usher, who boasts 9 No. 1 hits however none since 2010, hadn’t launched a solo studio album since 2016.

“I went by means of a whole world of expertise from being a married man to a single man, to having and discovering real love myself, after which discovering a companion, after which the journey of what that’s and what that has develop into, and remains to be turning into,” Usher, 45, lately advised Leisure Weekly.

“The concept of that journey felt like me lastly coming again residence to this place that I’m very snug to simply share and know I’m being susceptible in. I’m prepared.”

Sunday’s present marked a return to the massive stage and, by means of a medley of his greatest hits, supplied a reminder that Usher has loads extra music in him.

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