Revealed: How Usher brought ‘beautiful’ 14-year-old boy Justin Bieber to music mogul L.A Reid as a ‘gift’ (and how it paved the way for singer’s friendship with Diddy)…see more

The pop star, who was 15 when he gained worldwide fame with his debut single One Time in 2009, was originally discovered aged 12 by industry entrepreneur Scooter Braun, when he was covering pop songs by Usher and Chris Brown on YouTube.

But his big break came when Usher brought Bieber to music mogul L.A Reid as a ‘gift’ when he was a ‘beautiful’ 14-year-old boy, Reid wrote in his tell-all memoir in 2016.

One year on from being signed to Island Records by Reid, a 15-year-old Bieber spent a now-infamous 48-hour period with Diddy seemingly unsupervised at the rapper’s home, where they went ‘full buck crazy’.

Reid wrote in his tell-all memoir about his first interaction with Justin, who according to the music producer has a ‘beautiful’ face, trendy hair and natural charisma.

Reid himself discovered Usher, and the pair remained close friends even after the star had signed to another label, and would often ‘exchange gifts’.

He recalled how Usher phoned him in October 2008 to ask if he’d be in his office all afternoon because he ‘had something he wanted to bring me’.

At 4pm, Usher arrived with ‘an adorable fourteen-year-old boy’.