Spears was born in in the small town of Kentwood, not far from New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the second of three children--and the oldest daughter--of Jamie Spears, a building contractor; and Lynne Spears, a second-grade teacher. Spears was a mere toddler, two years of age, when she first tried to sing.
She mimicked popular crooners such as Whitney Houston and even donned makeup to complete the fantasy. As soon as she was able, Spears, who was raised a Baptist, sang with church choirs.
Additionally, she danced and performed in talent showcases. Spears was eight years old when she first auditioned to be a Mouseketeer on the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Club show, a reprise of the original Mickey Mouse Club program from the s. The producers, impressed with the talented youngster, referred Spears instead to the Professional Performing Arts School and the Off-Broadway Dance Center in New York City, because she was too young to conform to the format of the Disney show.
With assistance and support from her family, the budding superstar availed herself of the opportunity to develop her talent. In , at age nine, she moved along with her mother and younger sister to New York City. There Spears enrolled at the professional school, and before long, she began performing in live theater presentations and in television commercials.
Later, in , she returned to Disney studios to audition a second time for the Mickey Mouse Club. Spears by then was eleven years old and a show business veteran, and she easily secured a position as one of the Mouseketeers. She developed a huge following of fans in very little time and distinguished herself quickly as a solo act on her own merits, which led her mother to send a demonstration tape to the New York-based manager Larry Rudolph.
Rudolph, an entertainment lawyer, secured a contract with Jive Records for the year-old Spears, and in Jive released Spears's first album along with a single release of the CD's title song, " Baby One More Time.
Phenomenally, both the album and the single debuted on the music charts at number one. Spears became an overnight sensation. Her first album went "diamond" and sold 8. Early in she won the American Music Award for favorite new pop-rock artist. Additionally, she received two Grammy Award nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for her debut album, which by then had sold more than ten million copies.
When a dislocated knee limited her movement and kept her from the dance floor in , Spears bounced back seemingly without missing a beat. Although she canceled her scheduled appearance at the American Music Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, wherein she was to perform a routine combining her three hit songs " Baby One More Time," " You Drive Me Crazy," and "Sometimes," she performed ably at the Grammy Award ceremonies in Spears admittedly takes criticism from reviewers because of her spun-sugar-candy adolescent image.
Regardless, her popularity on the record charts is proof of her talent. Her name, according to Searchterms. Com, is among the most frequently searched keywords on the Internet. The various Britney Spears Internet sites rank among the top ten of the most commonly sought locations on the World Wide Web. Her Internet appeal was so high that with her mother's assistance, Spears undertook the construction of her own personal website.
The site includes pictures of Spears--for which she wrote clever captions--videos, and fan photos taken at her concerts and other personal appearances. Spears's appearances in the number one slot of the Billboard charts keep her consistently in the public spotlight. Her music video, "Time Out With Britney Spears," rose to number one on Billboard 's music video sales for January 13, , with her second album scheduled for release in May of Her fifth studio album, Blackout, was released in and despite receiving little promotion, it spawned hits "Gimme More" and "Piece of Me".
In , her erratic behaviour and hospitalizations caused her to be placed in a conservatorship. The same year, her sixth studio album Circus was released, with the global chart-topping lead single "Womanizer". In , Spears returned with her seventh studio album, titled Femme Fatale, which was released on March 29, , including the lead single "Hold It Against Me" which has become Spears' fourth U.
The album debuted at 1 on Billboard This made Spears the only female artist ever to have six number one debut albums, and have seven albums debut in the top two spots. Spears has sold over million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists in the history of contemporary music. Spears is also recognized as the best-selling female artist of the first decade of the 21st century, as well as the fifth overall. She was ranked the 8th Artist of the s by Billboard.
In June , Spears was ranked sixth on Forbes list of the Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world; she is also the third most mentioned musician on the internet, according to Forbes. Movies 23 07 Movies 26 06 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 followed by the top 10 hit "Crazy" in September and "from the bottom of my broken heart" soon after.
At just 18, Britney released her second album in , 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 , 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 , Britney struck a lucrative deal with Pepsi-Cola for sponsorship and advertising. 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 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 , the year-old Britney released "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman", taken from the soundtrack of her debut movie Crossroads , which was released in February of 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 World's most powerful celebrity" in mid 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.
However, she seemed to get herself back together for her new album released in late 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 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. The incident shocked the world, especially when the marriage was annulled 2 days 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 backup 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 actress Shar Jackson and their young child.
That same month, Britney released a single off her upcoming "Greatest Hits" album released in November a cover of Bobby Brown 's 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 November of that year, she released a remix album "B in the mix, the Remixes". Looking back over the years of this remarkable lady's career and life, it really is hard to imagine what the face of Pop would look like without her. Here is a woman who has grown in the face of the glaring media from innocent school-girl to sexual pop vixen to young ex-wife and mother. Who knows what is next for Britney? One thing is for certain: Britney has worked hard to get to where she is today and will continue to make her mark.
Sign In. Edit Britney Spears. Showing all items. She was on the girls' basketball team. Was offered a role in Scary Movie , but was forced to turn down, due to concert scheduling. First solo artist ever to have a 1 album and single on the Billboard charts at the same time with a debut.
Caused a stir with the American Family Association by posing in her underwear on the cover of Rolling Stone Ended up as the youngest cast member of The All New Mickey Mouse Club ; during the initial audition, she won the role after Jessica Simpson freaked out at the final question during the initial audition.
Announced that she will attend college and eventually wants to study entertainment law In her first song "Baby One More Time", there is a line "My loneliness is killing me", and in another of her songs "Stronger", there is a line "My loneliness ain't killing me no more".
Requested that the writers change the lyrics of her song "Born to Make You Happy". The original version contained sexually explicit lyrics, and Britney felt she was too young to be singing it.
Accepted an endorsement from Pepsi to do TV commercials promoting the soft drink. The first commercial was slated for the Academy Awards The original cut contained material so sexually explicit that mother Lynne Spears ordered that parts of the video be edited for content before its release to the public in the spring of In her first starring role in the film Crossroads , her character was supposed to swear.
She ordered that the curse words be taken out so as not to tarnish her image for the younger pre-teen viewers of the film. She was complaining about the fact that they were not playing a vamp before she was to go on stage.
Tape recordings of the incident were downloaded by Napster users. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA complained to her about the use of four caged cheetahs and a snake for her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, claiming that animals trained for performances are mistreated during the training. Baby One More Time". Though it had been rumored that she would be guesting on the sexually suggestive HBO series Sex and the City , playing the niece of Kim Cattrall 's character Samantha Jones, a spokesman for HBO denied the reports, saying no such negotiations ever took place.
Her Crossroads co-star Taryn Manning denied reports that she, Spears, and Zoe Saldana did a topless scene that was cut from the final edit of the film. According to her and the film's producer, Ann Carli , the "flashing" scene was filmed only from the neck up, and none of the three actresses involved was actually topless during the shoot. Ranked 30 on Maxim magazine's Hot Women of Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 17, She is tied with Melissa Gilbert for being the youngest person to accept a Walk of Fame star.
January 3, "Taking a joke too far," according to a statement released by her label, she married childhood friend Jason Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, but quickly had it annulled.
Her maternal grandmother, Lilian Irene Portell, was an English-born war bride. The other understudy for her off-Broadway role in "Ruthless" was now famous actress Natalie Portman. The two still keep in touch and met recently through a party in New York City. Is good friends with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Was considered for a role in Chicago , which went to Lucy Liu. Is the first woman to have four albums go straight to 1 on the American charts. Spring Had emergency arthroscopic surgery after she injured her knee an the set of her music video "Outrageous".
Her wedding dress was designed by Monique Lhuillier. Has a tattoo of a small black-winged fairy on the back of her spine. Wrote a "letter of truth" to her fans which was published on her official website, telling her fans that she needed to take a hiatus from her career to concentrate on her marriage with her new husband Kevin Federline and start a family with him.
The move thus displeased her bosses at Jive Records. She later had two children with Federline before divorcing him. She claims she was told it was fake fur. This is the second time PETA has criticized her after she performed on stage with a caged tiger and a snake at the MTV music awards, after which she apologized and posed for an anti-fur poster. As of , she is the best-selling female artist of the decade. In her music video "Baby One More Time", her love interest is played by her cousin.
The school scenes in her music video "Baby One More Time" were filmed in the same place the movie Grease was shot. Good friends with singer Madonna. They made a song together called "Me Against the Music". The song is on her album "In the Zone". She wrote her song "Someday" two weeks before she found out she was pregnant.
Is the only female artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era to have her first four albums debut at No. She and Kevin Federline were forced to leave their home in California because a brush fire threatened to destroy it and several other houses in that area including the one of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Blackwell for wearing clothes that he said made her look like an "over-the-hill Lolita". Lived with her brother in an apartment in New York City for some time. Blackwell" , she shared the 1 spot with Paris Hilton in for wearing clothes that made them look like "two peas in an overexposed box".
After shaving her own head with clippers in a Sherman Oaks California hair salon, she visited a tattoo parlor and got several tattoos. Her weird behavior caused worldwide public attention. Some days later, she admitted herself to a California treatment facility, but checked out after less than 24 hours.
Manager Larry Rudolph sent her to rehab in early She fired him. The film was scrapped after years of delay. Lost physical custody of her two sons with Kevin Federline due to not having a valid driver's license and failing to take a random drug and alcohol test.
Federline has sole custody of the children. Her album "Baby, One More Time" has sold 25 million copies worldwide. After a lengthy custody battle over their sons Sean Federline and Jayden Federline , she and Kevin Federline agreed that he retains sole custody of the children, while she keeps her visitation rights.
Didn't return to work until 5 months after giving birth to her son, Preston in order to begin recording her fifth studio album, Blackout. At age 18, she became the youngest person in the history of Saturday Night Live to act as a host and the musical guest at the same time on May 13, She did the same on February 2, and appeared as the musical guest only on October 18, March 2, This was announced that she would be the new face of Candie's, taking over from actress Hayden Panettiere.
The tour also became the highest grossing tour of the year by a solo artist in North America, as well as the fourth overall. Her single "Outrageous" was chosen as the title track for the film Catwoman , but after she injured her knee shooting the music video for the song, the idea was scrapped.
Mis-Teeq 's single "Scandalous" was chosen as a replacement. Her sixth album "Circus" debuted at number one on the Billboard , making her the youngest female artist in history to have five albums debut at No. Often works with songwriter Max Martin. Her sixth studio album "Circus" was released on December 2, , her 27th birthday. Her single "3" has the shortest title of any song ever reaching No. Her single "3", from her second greatest hits album "The Singles Collection", made her the first artist in over three years to debut at the top position on the Billboard Hot chart, and the only non-American Idol artist in eleven years to do so.
Lady Gaga 's song, "Telephone", was originally written for Spears' sixth album "Circus". Her sixth studio album "Circus" which was released in , became her fifth No. Won a Grammy Award for her hit song "Toxic". By , Spears received eight Grammy nominations. Britney Spears has sold over million albums world wide, making her one of the best-selling American recording artists.
December 11, Billboard magazine named Spears as the second best-selling act of the s. Her song "Womanizer" gained first-week download sales of ,, which is the biggest opening-week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads in Her song "Womanizer" became her fifth No. Mariah Carey is in first place with six No. As of , Spears has had six No. She is also ranked as the third most powerful musician in the world.
As of May , Spears became the most popular person on Twitter, with more than 5. Her Circus tour was the fifth highest-grossing tour of the year. Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 17, , at age She is the youngest music icon to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
According to Nielsen SoundScan "Hold It Against Me" has also netted , downloads, which marks the highest first-week tally for a female artist.
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