High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Live is a live album by American recording artist Usher. It was recorded on October 15 and 16, 1998 in the singer`s hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and released by LaFace Records on March 23, 1999. Both audio-only and video longform versions were released; it was distributed to break up the gap between Usher`s second and third studio albums, My Way (1997) and 8701 (2001).