Why Do People Think Usher’s ‘Clone’ Is Performing? The Singer Weighs In

Usher is shutting down rumors that he’s been sending out an imposter to perform in his place during his recent joint tour with Chris Brown. Fans have been doing double takes for days after footage from a recent “The R&B Tour” concert has convinced many of them that the man performing on stage was a fake. Sunnya Sultan, who saw the tour in person Aug. 7 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, shared a TikTok video questioning if the 47-year-old “Yeah” singer was truly the one dancing in front of her. The performer wears a white with lime green and pink ensemble, ball cap and sunglasses as he sings and dances. Sultan tells TODAY.com she believes she did see Usher perform. She’s also convinced an Usher look-alike also took the stage during a portion of the show. “Usher came out. The real Usher came out but then he sang like half a song, maybe for like 40 seconds,” Sultan recalls. “Then he goes into this darkness and he comes out, and as he’s walking, I think everyone really thought that was Usher.” “But as the first song finishes, I think everyone started getting confused because the way he was moving wasn’t really Usher,” she continues. When she looked closely, she believed something was off about the Usher who now appeared onstage. She noted that his jawline that was “a little too chiseled” and the performer “seemed a little too stiff.” Also, he was dressed differently. The “real” Usher, she says, came out shirtless and wearing a fur coat. The Usher who later performed in front of her, she adds, was “fully covered,” as seen in her TikTok video. “Everything was just kind of weird,” Sultan says. “He looked like him, and then at certain angles he definitely did not look like him.” Sultan said concertgoers all around her were suspicious. Usher addressed the rumors in a video posted on the tour’s official Instagram Aug. 9. “Usure? Wesure,” reads the caption. The video showed Usher performing onstage in the same white ensemble. It also included screenshots of Usher replying to comments made about the alleged imposter. “Ya’ll are funny…clone? They can’t clone this??” the singer wrote alongside a laughing emoji. “How ya’ll come up with this? AI ain’t that advanced,” he added along with more laughing emoji.