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Britney Spears Height 5' 4" Born December 2, 1981 Kentwood, Louisiana
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Britney Spears: Britney Jean Spears was
born in rural Louisiana (Kentwood) on December 2, 1981, to Jamie and Lynne
Spears. As a child, Britney attended dance classes, and she was great at
gymnastics, winning many competitions and the like. But, most of all, Britney
loved to sing. At age 8, Britney tried out for "The All New Mickey Mouse Club"
(1989), but was turned down due to her young age. This directed her to an
off-Broadway show, "Ruthless", for a 2-year run as the title character. At age
11, she again tried for "The All New Mickey Mouse Club" (1989) and this time
made it as a mouseketeer along side many stars of today (Justin Timberlake and
J.C. Chasez of N*Sync and Ryan Gosling). Her big break, however, came when she
was signed as a Jive Recording Artist in the late 90s. With the release of her
debut album, "...Baby One More Time" in early 1999, Britney became an
international success, selling 13 million copies of "Baby" and 9 million (as of
July 2001) of her sophomore album, "Oops!...I Did It Again," released in May of
2000.
Mini Biography
"Pop Phenomenon" doesn't come close to describing Britney Spears. The name is
legend around the world. So famous is Britney Spears now that it's impossible to
imagine a World in which she doesn't exist.
Born on 2 December 1981 in the small town of Kentwood, Louisiana, to parents
Jamie and Lynne Spears, Britney is their second child of three. Her older
brother Brian was born in April 1977 and her younger sister, Jamie-Lynn was born
in April 1991. From a young age, Britney was always fixing to be a star with
idols such as Madonna, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, the young Britney could
always be heard singing, no matter what else was going on around her. After
taking extensive dance and vocal lessons and performing in numerous talent shows
and fairs, Britney auditioned for _"The All New Mickey Mouse Club (1989 TV
series) [1989-1994]"_ when she 8, however she was too young to get the part.
Instead, Britney, her mother and baby sister moved to New York where she starred
in several TV adverts and an off broad-way play "Ruthless", where she was
under-study with Natalie Portman. Her love of music and dance took over and 2
years later she auditioned for a part in Mickey Mouse again and this time won
the part along with Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. As a Mouseketeer,
Britney received extensive training in dance, drama and singing and had to grow
up a lot during that time. However, after the show was canceled two years later,
Britney returned home and did "the normal teenager thing", attending pool
parties and she was also the homecoming Queen. As a young teenager, Britney soon
grew restless again and this time was desperate to become a star yet again.
Again, she traveled to New York and sent out demo tapes to various labels
including Sony and Mercury, but was turned down. It was Jive Records that
finally took the young Britney on and set out on making her the star she is
today.
She hit the studio with writers/producers such as Max Martin and Eric Foster
White and the result was her debut album. In late 1998, Jive released her debut
single "(Hit me) Baby one more time" which was a pop hit around the Globe,
accompanied by the sixteen year old first of many controversial acts - the
video, which featured Britney dressed in a Catholic Schoolgirl Uniform, baring
her midriff, which was soon to become her trademark. Nonetheless, the single was
a smash worldwide and Britney was instantly a Household name. She toured with
popular boy band N*Sync and the single shot to the top of the charts for 3
weeks. Her debut album was released a few months later in early 1999 and like
the single took to the top of the album charts, where it remained number one for
six weeks. The album has now sold millions worldwide and is officially 14 x
platinum in the US. Her next controversial act, after the video, was to take the
cover of Rolling Stones magazine in a suggestive pose, but as Britney mania took
off, the 17 year-old became more and more popular. Appealing to young girls,
teenage boys and older men, Britney was on her way, yet nobody could have
predicted at that time the impact she would have on Pop Culture. The second
single, "Sometimes" was released in June 1999 followed on by the top 10 hit
"Crazy" in September and "from the bottom of my broken heart" soon after.
Britney ended 1999 selling over 10 million copies of her debut and as the
Billboard Top Female Pop Artist (singles and albums), Top New Pop Artist, Top
Billboard 200 album Artist and Top 100 singles Artist - female. The American
Awards, MTV and Teen Choice awards soon began rolling in and in early 2000
Britney was nominated for two Grammy awards.
At just 18, Britney released her second album in 2000, the #1 smash "Oops! I did
it again" and single of the same title, which topped the singles chart for 5
weeks. Smash singles "Stronger" and "Lucky" followed, but it was around this
time that Britney was beginning to raise more than a few eyebrows. It seemed
some people weren't too happy with the message she was sending their
impressionable young children. On one hand, Britney was the perfect picture of
innocence, declaring herself a Virgin until marriage yet on the other hand, she
was sexually charged and provocative, with performance such as the MTV Video
Music Awards in 2000, when her costume made her appear scantily-clad. As the
young woman was growing up, it seemed there was an internal conflict between
her, her management and her mother, all pulling her in different directions. Yet
the image the public saw was a gorgeous young woman, beautifully dressed and
damn close to perfection, often labeled the "Pop Princess" around the world.
Still, the awards kept rolling in and in early 2001 Britney struck a lucrative
deal with Pepsi-Cola for Sponsorship and advertising. The 19 year-old was
growing up fast, with the media constantly fixed on what she was and wasn't
doing, her "rivalry" with former fellow Mouseketeer Christina Aguilera and also
her blossoming relationship with N*Sync heartthrob Justin Timberlake. Britney
was keen that people saw her as a growing woman as she began to ready the public
for her next LP release in late 2001.
In November, she hit the top 10 with the sexually charged "I'm a slave 4 u"
which took a completely different turn in musical direction from her previous
singles and in the same month released her third LP, self-titled "Britney" which
shot to the top of the albums charts, breaking records for a female artist. Her
performance of "Slave" at the MTV VMA's caused outrage among animal rights
campaigners, as she performed with a live giant Snake and wearing little
herself. It was a far cry from the Britney of just three years ago, and perhaps
the critical moment when what some people would say "she started going
downhill". Sales of her third album, while impressive, where not nearly as high
as her former releases, perhaps due to the increase of new pop female singers
flooding the market, yet Britney, still incredibly popular, carried on. In early
2002, the 20 year-old Britney released "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman", taken
from the soundtrack of her debut movie Crossroads (2002/I) which was released in
February that year. She soon after hit the charts with "Overprotected" and also
toured Worldwide on the "Dream within a dream tour". Yet it seemed it was all
getting too much for Britney, her four year relationship with Timberlake ended
suddenly and very publicly and she soon announced she was to take 6 months off,
after all, she had achieved so much by such a young age and in such a short
space of time. Her star was by no means fading, with "Forbes" declaring her "The
Worlds most powerful celebrity" in mid-2002.
While she may have been on a break from her career, she was by no means breaking
from the media, who followed her relentlessly, even more keen to track her down
and find out what she was up to. Britney was increasingly letting her pop
princess crown slip, admitting she had lost her sacred virginity to Timberlake,
outside of marriage. Britney could also be seen smoking and drinking to excess
on wild nights out and famously breaking down in tears while being interviewed
by Diane Sawyer about her parents (who were recently divorced) and her bitter
split from Timberlake. Britney was linked to men such as Fred Durst of Limp
Bizkit and openly kissed Colin Farrell at a movie premiere. However, she seemed
to get herself back together for her new album released in late 2003. In a blitz
of publicity which included the infamous "Like a Virgin" performance and Madonna
kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards in August that year. The new album "In The
Zone" was a bid to be seen as a woman and caused controversy with songs on it
such as "Breathe on me" and "Touch of my hand" - which was about masturbation -
however, the appeal of Britney was still there and the album topped the
Billboard 200 albums charts. The first single to be lifted was "Me against the
music" a club hit that featured pop icon Madonna and singing with her was a
dream come true for Britney. Now 22, it seemed Britney was in a lot more control
over her career, yet her personal life still seemed to be slipping. In January
2004, Britney got "married" to childhood friend Jason Alexander in a Las Vegas
ceremony. The incident shocked the world, especially when the marriage was
annulled 55 hours later and was described as "a joke taken too far" by her
management.
Britney soon released one of her biggest singles, "Toxic" which topped various
charts around the world including the UK and Canadian singles charts. The single
was a smash-hit and silenced any critics that said Britney no longer had what it
took to make a comeback. She soon began her highly publicized and overtly sexual
"Onyx Hotel Tour" which was canceled a few months later after Britney damaged
her knee during a video shoot and had to receive medical treatment. Other
singles off the album included the Gold Selling "Everytime", which topped the UK
singles charts and like usual, also carried a fair amount of controversy for its
video, which allegedly depicted the star committing suicide after a fight with
her boyfriend, played by Stephen Dorff ; however, this was "changed" to an
accident in which she drowns yet reincarnates. It was around this time that
Britney began dating Kevin Federline, a former back up dancer who she had taken
on tour with her a few months previously. The snag here was that Kevin came with
baggage - in the form of an "ex" girlfriend, heavily pregnant "Moesha" (1996)
actress Shar Jackson and their young child. Britney and Kevin soon became
engaged and in September 2004 were married in a secret ceremony, soon after the
birth of Kevin's second child. That same month, Britney released a single off
her upcoming "Greatest Hits" album (released in November 2004) a cover of Bobby
Browns 1988 hit "My Prerogative".
Britney was a changed woman, no longer concerned with what the public thought of
her or her appearance, she parted ways with her manager who she had had since
she was 13, and was increasingly stepping out looking more "trailer trash" than
Multi-Millionaire. In February 2005, Britney won her first Grammy for the single
"Toxic" as Best Dance Recording. Just two months later, it was announced Britney
was pregnant her first child. A reality TV Series "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic"
(2005), which featured the pair getting to know each other the previous year,
leading up to their wedding aired on UPN and eventually got a world wide
audience, despite harsh criticism. In September 2005, Britney evolved yet again,
this time as a devoted wife and mother, with the birth of her first child, a
Son, which she named Sean Preston. In November that year, she released a remix
album "B in the mix, the Remixes".
Looking back over the last seven years of this remarkable ladies career and
life, it really is hard to imagine what the face of Pop would look like without
her. Here is a 24 year-old woman who has grown in the face of the glaring media
from innocent School-girl to Sexual Pop Vixen to Young wife and Mother. Who
knows what is next for Britney? Rumours of a comeback album for 2006 have been
circulating for a while and also a few more movie productions, yet one thing is
for certain: Britney Spears has worked hard to get to where she is today and by
no means will she be disappearing any time soon. Her name and face is legend in
the media and celebrity circuit and it's surely only a matter of time before
Spears shocks us all again, with her next album or tour or movie or personal
move. One thing is for certain though: the public will be watching.
Spouse
Kevin Federline (6 October 2004 - 30 July 2007) (divorced) 2 children
Jason Allen Alexander (3 January 2004 - 5 January 2004) (annulled)
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