(CNN) -- You know you've reached a special level of fame when you're known by just your first name. For R&B superstar Usher (full name Usher Raymond), achieving his place among the entertainment industry's first-namers has come with the sale of tens of millions of records and multiple Grammy Awards. "I'm definitely living my dream to the fullest... What I do is very positive and an indication that if you simply believe in your dreams, you can make it," he told CNN. When not performing the man who recently visited the gambling city of Macau during his first tour of China is a more modest character.
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U.S. R&B superstar was friend of Michael Jackson
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Usher has sold over 40 million albums
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Passing on the advice of "King of Pop," he's now mentor to teen sensation Justin Bieber
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