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Usher and his kids, Cinco and Naviyd
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He’s an R&B legend, but back home, he’s a great dad. Usher’s kids help inspire him in his career and he makes sure to be a family man back home.

Usher (born Usher Raymond IV) He first released his self-titled debut album in 1994 at the age of sixteen and rose to fame in the late 1990s following the release of his second album, My Way. Confessions, released in 2004, established Usher as one of the best-selling musical artists of the 2000s. The “Yeah!” singer has been in private relationships with several girlfriends and has been married twice to Tameka Foster and Grace Miguel. He’s been in relationship with Chilli Thomas and is currently in a relationship with Grace Goicoechea.

Usher has been open about talking about how his kids deal with his fame.“My kids – sometimes, they don’t want me to come,” the 45-year-old singer revealed Club Shay Shay podcast with Shannon Sharpe. “They don’t want me to be at their basketball game or their recital, or they wanna be very, very low-key, ‘cause they don’t want that energy.”

He added, “They don’t want, ‘Oh Dad walked into the room and took—’ ” he said, as Sharpe jumped in, “All their focus off me. And it’s hard, because I try my hardest to have that empathy, but I wanna be there.”

However, the father values his children’s input in his creative endeavors. “I think I just start it by making certain that — my kids approved, I got my portion of it from, for the, you know, the 30 and up, I got them,” the R&B legend revealed on Good Morning America.

“But for my young’uns, Cinco and Naviyd, I’m taking notes,” he said, referring to his teenage sons, whom he shares with ex-wife Tameka Foster. “They’ve been like taking conference calls with my entire team, giving notes.”

So who are Usher’s kids? Read more to find out.

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