R&B superstar Usher will be the toast of the music industry next month (Jun13) when he is presented with the Golden Note Award at the 26th Annual Rhythm & Soul Awards in Los Angeles.

The Yeah! hitmaker has been selected to receive the esteemed honour by officials at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in celebration of his career success.

The flattered singer says, "I take the art of songwriting and music-making very seriously, so to be given the ASCAP Golden Note Award from an organisation of my fellow music creators is a huge honour."

Previous recipients o...

You can't go one week without hearing a ridiculous story involving some of your favorite celebrities. Thankfully, the Starpulse Rumor Patrol is here to sort out what's real and what's fake.

Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Returning To The Voice? Are two of the original Voice judges returning to their big red seats? Shakira and Usher are departing... or are they?

Verdict: True, and Shakira and Usher are staying. In an interesting movie, The Voice is going into a rotation of judges for the next two seasons. Shakira and Usher are getting a break and will be focusing on family and music while C...

R&B star Usher has been slapped with a lawsuit by a former nanny who is suing the singer for wrongful termination.

Cecilia Duncan claims that the Yeah! hitmaker hired her as a part-time nanny in December, 2010, but that she regularly worked much longer hours to care for the star's two sons, Usher Raymond V, five, and Naviyd Ely, four, often exceeding 40 hours a week.

According to legal papers, obtained by editors at TMZ.com, Duncan alleges she did not receive overtime payment and that she expressed her concerns to the singer in 2011.

She claims that her complaints were ignored and she ...

R&B superstar Usher has been handed the honour of curating a massive fireworks show in New York to mark this year's Independence Day (04Jul13) holiday.

The Yeah! hitmaker has been invited to work with organisers behind Macy's 4th of July spectacular to come up with the concept, music and design for the summer light show, titled It Begins With a Spark - the first time an artist has been hired for the job.

He plans to use some of his own songs alongside tracks by Rihanna, Swedish House Mafia and Frank Sinatra during the 37th annual Macy's 4th of July Fireworks display, which will feature a ...

Several high-profile music acts have joined a new initiative that rewards fans for social activism. Beyonce, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, One Direction, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Usher, Ke$ha, Foo Fighters and Neil Young are among those who signed up for the Global Citizen Tickets Initiative.

The campaign allows fans to accumulate points when they help further change by signing petitions, contacting government representatives, or raising money for charity. Points can be used towards a lottery to win free concert tickets.

Over the next three years, each of the acts involved will give away one pa...

Welcome to the new Voice - just as good as the old Voice.

The Voice is back for its fourth season, and it's come with much buzz over the arrival of Shakira and Usher, who are standing in for Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green this time around. Everyone wants to know if the new foursome in the big red chairs will click like the old one, and the answer is a resounding yes. The Voice of season four is reminiscent of the Voice of season one: all the banter but without the moments of tension that raised some eyebrows in later cycles. This is not to detract from Aguilera and Green, who were goo...

Kerry Washington took top honors on Friday night at the 2013 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards.
 
The actress, 36, won three awards: Best Supporting Actress ("Django Unchained"), Best Actress in a Drama Series ("Scandal") and President's Award for her public service work on behalf of President Barack Obama.

Washington is the first African-American woman to lead the cast of a primetime drama since Diahann Carroll in "Julia" over 30 years ago. Carroll gushed: "I think she's enjoying one of the great moments of her life right now in our industry."...

Will.i.am, John Legend, Katy Perry and Usher were among the stars who helped kick off U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration celebrations in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.

A whole host of famous faces descended on the U.S. capital as Obama prepares to be sworn in for a second term in front of hundreds of thousands of people on the National Mall on Monday.

Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am was at the star-studded OurTime.org Generation Now party, where Legend, Common and T-Pain performed in honour of the next generation of American voters.

will.i.am talked about the importance of youth ac...

Who are the sexiest guys in music, film and television? We narrowed our picks down to 50 in our annual list, spotlighting those who made our hearts skip a beat when we watched them perform.

Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey bared quite a bit in "Magic Mike," while "The Avengers" actors got our blood flowing with their explosive action scenes.

We lusted after Chris Hemsworth in "Snow White And The Huntsmans" and felt a little bit giddy when rumors swirled that Justin Bieber broke up with Selena Gomez (he didn't.)

British imports The Wanted and One Direction also caught our fancy, as ...

R&B star Usher's hit ballad Climax has beaten South Korean pop sensation PSY's Gangnam Style to the top of Time magazine's 2012 best song countdown.

Editors have placed Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe in third place, while Taylor Swift's We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, which picked up a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year on Wednesday night, and Parquet Courts' Master of My Craft round out the top five. Tracks by Skrillex, Nicki Minaj and Russian punk rockers Pussy Riot also feature in the top 10.

Meanwhile, singer Fiona Apple has claimed the publication's top album prize...

Justin Bieber took home the coveted "Artist of the Year" prize at last night's American Music Awards (AMAs) in Los Angeles. The pop star also won "Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist" and "Favorite Pop/Rock Album" trophies.

Bieber, who attended the event with his mother Pattie Mallette, dragged her on stage when he recieved the night's most anticipated award. "This is my mom, she's little but she's beautiful...I wanna thank you for just always believing in me...This is amazing," he told the crowd.

Skirting around rumors that he and Selena Gomez broke up, he told fans, "As long as you guys keep ...

Election officials in Georgia have dismissed allegations Usher was given "preferential treatment" after the R&B star was whisked to the front of the queue at a polling station in Atlanta.

The Yeah! Hit-maker turned out to cast his ballot at a community center in the suburb of Roswell on Tuesday, but authorities were accused of allowing the singer to skip a long line of voters because of his star status.

Residents vented their anger to local TV station WSBTV and county election officials have now released a statement defending the decision to take the star to the front of the line throug...

All's fair in love and war unless bodily fluids are involved. Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster has confessed she spit on the singer's girlfriend and chucked food at his car during a fight at her home.

The former couple has been embroiled in a serious custody battle, and the stylist admits Usher wasn't exaggerating some of the problems they had.

When Usher showed up to Tameka's house with his new-girlfriend Grace Miguel, she lost her cool and threw food at his car.

Tameka told Entertainment Tonight, "It was not one of my more proud moments. I'm prone to human frailty. It was a one-time incid...

R&B superstar Usher leads the competition at this year's Soul Train Awards after receiving five nominations.

The Burn hit-maker is poised to dominate the prize giving after being nominated for Song and Album of the Year, Best R&B Male Artist, The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award, and Best Dance Performance.

Nas, Trey Songz, John Legend, and Estelle have also landed multiple nods, while singer R. Kelly becomes the most nominated act in the ceremony's history with another two nods - he now has 21 Soul Train Awards nominations to his name.

In addition, tragic stars Whitney Houston an...

Putting an end to recent media speculation, NBC has confirmed via press release that two of The Voice's coaches will be leaving following the currently-airing Season 3 - but that both are anticipated to return to the show in the future.

Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will not participate in Season 4 of the show, which is expected to air in Spring 2013, in order to resume their music careers.

Aguilera was quoted in the release as saying, "Since this year NBC and The Voice have decided to tape back-to-back seasons, requiring a full-year commitment, it is important for me to take sea...

Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster has been denied the chance to face off against the star in court again after a judge rejected her request for a retrial in their child custody dispute.

The singer was granted primary custody of the former couple's two sons, Usher, four, and three-year-old Naviyd, earlier this month after a bitter court battle with his ex-wife.

Foster, who divorced the Yeah! hitmaker in 2009 after two years of marriage, refused to give up the fight and filed a motion demanding a retrial, claiming the judge overseeing the case, Superior Court Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane, was...

Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster is demanding a retrial after a judge awarded the R&B star primary custody of their two young sons last month.

Foster, who divorced Usher in 2009 after two years of marriage, was stripped of custody of four-year-old Usher and three-year-old Naviyd, but she is appealing against the decision by filing a motion for a new trial.

According to legal documents obtained TMZ.com, Foster alleges the judge was biased in the singer's favor because of a personal link to his lawyer.

She also argues that her attorneys made a strong case against Usher's "past, current, and f...

Usher has won his custody battle with ex-wife Tameka Foster after she attempted to portray the singer as an absentee dad who was more interested in his career than their sons in court.

The former couple has been locked in a bitter custody battle over its two sons for months, but a judge in Georgia ruled in Usher's favor on Friday and awarded him primary custody of Usher, four, and Naviyd, three. Foster has been granted custodial rights which have yet to be revealed.

The surprise decision comes just days after the same judge ordered Usher to reopen his ex-wife's credit card account at de...

Usher's bitter custody battle with his ex-wife Tameka Foster will resume on August 13, despite the singer's request to postpone the hearing following his stepson's death last month.

Foster challenged her former husband's stall plea, insisting his call for sympathy was "bogus" - and the judge overseeing the case has agreed there's no need to hold up proceedings.

In court papers filed this week, Usher suggested the hearing would cause "unnecessary stress and strain" for himself and his ex.

But the case will continue in Fulton County court in Georgia as planned.

Usher is expected to return...

The funeral for singer Usher's former stepson Kile Glover was held on Friday in Georgia. Friends and family paid their last respects during a service in Atlanta.

After he was knocked unconscious during a jet ski accident on Lake Lanier on July 6, the 11-year-old son of the star's ex-wife Tameka Foster was declared brain dead. Last weekend, his parents - Foster and entrepreneur Ryan Glover - took the child off life support.

Photos obtained by TMZ.com show the child's white casket decorated with red flowers as it was carried outside the church behind a sole escort, playing the trumpet. Hi...

Usher's 11-year-old stepson has passed away this morning from injuries suffered in a tragic jetski accident in Georgia earlier this month ... TMZ has learned.

Doctors removed 11-year-old Kyle Glover from life support after it was determined the injuries were too severe to overcome. We're told Kyle's mother, Tameka Foster, struggled tremendously with the decision.

According to our sources, Tameka is understandably devastated.

Glover was injured on July 8 ... as he was riding in an inner tube that was connected to a pontoon in Lake Lanier. According to authorities, a family friend who wa...

Last week we put together a pictorial of 30 hot celebrity moms to the enjoyment of many that browsed. Not to let the ladies down, we thought it only fitting to do the same for the sexy celebrity dads. We did our best to throw in a few shirtless surprises, so click through our list of hot celeb dads. If we missed someone who'd be on your list let us know. Enjoy!

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Eddie Murphy has joined the death hoax club. Online rumors swirled on Wednesday that the actor tragically died in a snowboarding accident in Switzerland.

The manner of his death should have indicated it was a hoax. Other stars who have "died" in snowboarding incidents include Keanu Reeves, Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey.

Jeff Goldblum and Tom Hanks both met their maker after allegedly falling from cliffs in New Zealand. In April, Ryan Gosling reportedly died while filming in Austria and falling from a cliff.

Let's face it - tons of celebrities have been victims of death hoaxes, particularl...

R&B star Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster has asked fans to continue to pray for her son in the wake of his tragic jet ski accident on Friday.

Kile Glover,11, was hospitalised after he was hit by the watercraft while sitting on an inflatable raft on Lake Lanier in Atlanta, Georgia.

The youngster has since been declared brain dead, and now Foster and the boy's father, Ryan Glover, have broken their silence, requesting all good wishes be sent their way as they continue to pray for a miracle recovery.

A statement from the family reads, "We know God's in control, and (we) are leaning on our fai...

"The X Factor" is starting its second season this fall with two brand new judges: Britney Spears and Demi Lovato. And it appears that "American Idol" is looking for some fresh blood too. Jennifer Lopez has hinted she might not return for a second season, and execs may be looking to completely shake up the judging line up.

Rumors suggested Adam Lambert was in talks to return to the show for the upcoming 12th sesason, and he is thrilled by the possibility. But would he be a good fit?

What about Taylor Swift? She released her first album at age 16. Her sophomore album "Fearless" went gold i...

R&B singer Usher has landed a one-year restraining order against a fan who insists she is his wife.

The Papers Hit-maker won a temporary ban against Darshelle Jones-Rakestraw last month after she showed up uninvited at his Georgia home and demanded to be let in.

She was arrested the following day when she returned to the property, telling cops she was Usher's wife and had misplaced her keys.

The singer was in court on Monday and breathed a sigh of relief after a judge agreed to make the ban more permanent by barring Jones-Rakestraw from approaching Usher and his children for one year,...

Doctors have declared Usher's 11-year-old stepson brain dead after a jet ski accident on Saturday, and officials have launched an investigation into the incident.

Kyle Glover, son of the R&B star's estranged wife Tameka Foster, was hit while sitting on an inflatable raft on Lake Lanier in Atlanta, Georgia.

Glover suffered a head injury and has shown no brain activity since the accident, according to TMZ.com. At press time, it wasn't determined whether the boy would be taken off life support.

The Department of Natural Resources' Critical Incident Response Team plans on recreating the acci...

Usher's 11-year-old stepson Kyle Glover is in critical condition after a boat collision outside Atlanta, Georgia.

A man in a jet ski hit a boat pulling Glover, 11, and a 15-year-old girl riding in a inner tubes at Lake Lanier on Friday afternoon. Alcohol was not a factor in the accident, according to a Department of Natural Resources spokesman.

The children were air lifted to Children's Healthcare at Egleston Hospital, and a source told TMZ.com that Glover remains unresponsive and is in critical condition.

Glover is the son of Usher's estranged wife Tameka Foster. The singer reportedly c...

Usher has obtained a temporary restraining order against a fan who claimed she was his wife.

Darshelle Jones-Rakestraw, 26, appeared uninvited to the R&B star's Georgia home on Saturday, pounded on his front door, and demanded to be let in, according to court documents.

Usher called the police. They told Jones-Rakestraw to move on. She did but retured the next day, according to TMZ.com. Officers once again went to Usher's house, and the trespasser tried to convince them she was the singer's wife and had simply misplaced her keys.

Jones-Rakestraw was arrested, and Usher filed for the rest...

Usher was left blind-sided in an Atlanta, Georgia courtroom on Wednesday when his ex-wife's lawyer accused him of sleeping with another woman during a cross-examination about the reinstatement of a nanny.

The singer was on the attack over his former wife Tameka Foster's decision to hire a babysitter, who had left the couple's employ during their marriage, without his knowledge when the attorney suggested he had a hidden motive to keep the woman away from his kids.

She suggested the nanny had "traveled to Miami (Florida)" with Usher and he had left after he was "discovered in bed with Maya...