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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Usher Waited 5 Years at the Beginning of His Career for a Solo Tour · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Usher is clearly, undeniably one of the best performers of
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  Speaker 2: live right now today, he was on Trigger treating in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: He was spotted by somebody I know, actually, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: love that part in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he proved to the world that headlining
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  Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four Super.
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  Speaker 3: Bowl, along with his veggest residencies, don't forget that so interesting.
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  Speaker 2: He waited way longer than a lot of artists do
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  Speaker 2: to headline his own tour, back when his career was
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  Speaker 2: really beginning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what like five long years, right?
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  Speaker 2: He opened up Bad Boys, No Way Out that tours
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven. I'm just reading here, had the crowd
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  Speaker 2: going crazy by the time it wrapped up, the demand
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  Speaker 2: was actually there. But instead of going on a solo track,
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  Speaker 2: he opened up for Mary j Then he did Jana Jackson.
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  Speaker 4: Right right in nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 3: And then he waited until two thousand and two to
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  Speaker 3: finally go out on his own on his Evolution tour.
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  Speaker 2: He was saying to Billboard's Live Music Summit as Usher talking,
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  Speaker 2: each tour was another notch in his belt, watching and
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  Speaker 2: learning and understanding he was capable of owning a.
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  Speaker 1: Crowd so when they eventually do come and see you,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't feel anything close to being a rookie headliner.
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  Speaker 2: And I would say the four hundred and more than
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  Speaker 2: four hundred million he's earned performing suggests fans agree
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  Speaker 4: That's direct from Hollywood.