NEW YORK - Like the NFL teams beginning their new seasons, Usher is hoping to go all the way to the Super Bowl.
The R&B singer will perform the season's kickoff concert on Thursday in New York's Columbus Circle along with Keith Urban and Natasha Bedingfield. The 3 p.m. concert testament be held just earlier the season opener, when the Washington Redskins accept on the Super Bowl champion New York Giants.
Like the Redskins and Giants, Usher is aiming for the big game in February. The game isn't just the destination of all football game players, it's also 1 of the most sought-after gigs in music.
"I don't think it's too early to conceive it," said Usher, speaking from Atlanta. "Certainly being associated with the brass makes that a lot more possible. There receive been conversations for a lot of years nigh me organism part of a operation at a Super Bowl."
He added: "I'm hoping that this leads, definitely, to that. This whole process is essentially you cabbage my back, I'll scratch yours."
Usher feels that he's sufficiently reinforced up his "brand" over the past decade - it bathroom sometimes be easy to forget that the 29-year-old singer has been around that long. Recent Super Bowl performers include Prince and Tom Petty.
Last year, Usher matrimonial Tameka Foster and the couple had a son, Usher Raymond V. The onset of family life has brought out a more mature side of Usher, whose 2008 album "Here I Stand" deals considerably with growing into adulthood.
At the kickoff concert, which volition stream on NFL.com, Usher plans to perform "Here I Stand," "Changing Places" and "What's Your Name" with edgar Guest star will.i.am.
Usher, who fatigued much of a his childhood in Tennessee, counts himself a Titans fan, and vividly recalls being at the 1999 Super Bowl and watching the Titans' Kevin Dyson fall one yard short of the destruction zone as time expired.
An expert professional dancer, Usher gives props to Randy Moss and Terrell Owens' end-zone dances, simply says their moves still fall short of another.
"The greatest end zone dance of all time has to be Cuba Gooding Jr.," aforesaid Usher, referring to the actor's dance in "Jerry Maguire." "The greatest of all time."
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