(CelebrityAccess News Service) – Tommy Mottola has signed Usher to Champion Entertainment.
"I'm real excited," Mottola told The New York Post. "He's the next one that I think will blow up – like Justin Timberlake has. It's just the beginning." Usher's next album is due in the first quarter of 2004.
Mottola also manages Marc Anthony. –by Bob Grossweiner and Jane Cohen