Rowland turned Usher on to dance music

The former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland gave up R ‘n’ B to pursue a different direction two years ago, and said at the time her peers were unsure whether it would work.

She said: “No one like me was doing dance music back then. Producers only knew me in an R ‘n’ B capacity. I played Usher a song and he said, ‘That record is crazy’ but I was like, ‘You should try dance’.”