Singer Usher Raymond celebrates his 33rd birthday today and we wanted to show our appreciation for the King of R’n’B.

Bringing us such classics such as ‘You Make Me Wanna’ and ‘Nice and Slow’ from his 1997 album ‘My Way’, ‘You Remind Me’ and ‘U Got It Bad’ from 2001 hit LP ‘8701’ originally entitled ‘All About U’ and ‘Yeah’ and ‘Burn’ from his landmark set ‘Confessions’ released in 2004 – Usher Terry Raymond IV born in Dallas, Texas redefined R’n’B for a truckload of male singers.

Raymond has acted and danced his way into the history books selling over 65 million records worldwide, making him one of the bestselling music artists of all time.

Usher, has won numerous music awards including seven Grammy Awards, four World Music Awards, six American Music Awards, and twenty two Billboard Music Awards. In 2008, Usher was ranked as the 21st most successful Hot 100 Singles Artist of all-time by Billboard magazine and also ranked Raymond the number one Hot 100 artist of the 2000s decade.

But the man is not slowing down scoring multi-million selling albums with 2008's ‘Here I Stand’ and ‘Raymond V. Raymond’ in 2010, bringing us Justin Bieber and being the proud father of two sons Usher Raymond V and Naviyd Ely Raymond.

We pay homage to Raymond in a gallery of pics, have a look…..