Usher becomes visibly emotional during the final Las Vegas Residency show
Guard was visibly emotional during his performance on stage during his 100th and final show for him My way Residence in Las Vegas.
The singer, 45, fell to his knees and placed his face in his hands while performing “Without You,” per images from fans on Saturday, December 2. Usher’s dancers surrounded him on stage and cheered him on.
After a few moments, Usher stood up but quickly turned his back to the crowd as his dancers spun around him and patted him on the shoulder. The eight-time Grammy winner then sang the final lyrics of the song and encouraged his audience to join in.
“God bless you, I love you,” he said at the end of the clip.
The next day Usher went to work X (formerly Twitter) to repost a video of a 2004 interview in which he spoke Trevor Nelson. Usher said at the time that if he went to Las Vegas, it would be “the most phenomenal thing you have ever seen in your life.”
“I saw it then… look at me now,” Usher captioned his retweet of the clip on Sunday, December 3.
Usher announced in September 2020 that he would have a residency from July 2021 to January 2022 (he extended the residency until the end of 2023.) “I have missed performing live in front of my fans and I am so excited to see them in Las Vegas ,” he said in a statement at the time.
As his Las Vegas residency comes to a close, Usher is soon getting ready to perform at the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show.
“It is the honor of a lifetime to finally cross a Super Bowl performance off my bucket list,” Usher said in a statement in September. “I can’t wait to give the world a show that’s unlike anything they’ve seen from me before. Thank you to the fans and everyone who made this opportunity possible. I’ll see you very soon.”
In addition to both shows, Usher also balances raising four children. (He shares sons Usher V, 16, and Naviyd Ely, 14, with ex-wife Tameka Foster. He is also father to daughter Sovereign Bo, 3, and son Sire Castrello, 2, whom he shares with current partner Jenn Goicoechea.)
“The biggest challenge, period, is balance – trying to make enough time for everything and still have enough for yourself,” he told exclusively We weekly in February. “Because you don’t have personal balance and you can’t balance it out for them. I really want to be at every recital, [I] wants to be at every basketball game. I want to be there every step of the way.”
He continued, “And God willing, I am able to teach incredibly valuable things, lessons that will help them when I’m not there, believe it or not, it really applies. And it’s more important than anything.”