Biography
Britney Spears, the name responsible for delivery in a new spirit to the pop culture of America is worshipped by teenage girls in many parts of the world. Such is the extent of her fame that The RIAA ranked her as the 6th best-selling female artist in American music history.
With over 83 million records sold worldwide from only 5 studio albums and 2 compilation albums to see in the span of only 10 years, Britney has pronounced her own niche in the eccentric populace of boy bands and male singerfanatic world.
Britney Spears was natural on December 2, 1981, in McComb, Mississippi, and elevated in Kentwood, Louisiana as a Southern Baptist. Her parents are Lynne Irene a former elementary school teacher, and Jamie Parnell Spears, a construction contractor. Spears's brother Bryan works as a coach for the Spears family interests and her sister Jamie Lynn is an actress and singer.
Since an early age she has been enticed by the existence of medicine and dance. In fact, she used to contend in state level competitions held for gymnasts at the age of 9 and was a fixture at church choirs.
Career in Movies
With a serial of gift and fair shows behind, Britney soon tried her fate at "The All New Mickey Mouse Club (1989 TV series) [1989-1994]"when she turned 8, she was however refused on the grounds of being too young. Instead, Britney, her father and baby sister moved to New York where she starred in various TV adverts and an off broad-way play "Ruthless", as the under-study of Natalie Portman. 2 days after she again auditioned for a character in Mickey Mouse and this time won the division along with her present day counterparts Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. She was with the evidence from 1993 to 1994, until she turned 13. Later, when the record ended, Spears returned to Kentwood and attended high school for a year.
By the year 1997, she was associated with an all girl pop band Innocence and had already started distributing her music tapes to record companies like Sony and Mercury which rejected her initially. She was afterwards signed on by Jives record company who released her first debut album in 1998 with the strike hit single "Hit me baby one more time" which whisked to act one position on all music charts including the Billboard Hot 100. As a count of fact, Britney holds the register of selling 25 million copies of her debut album as a teenager which hasn`t been broken yet.
The album also won her four Billboard Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year. She took place the Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist award at the American Music Awards in 1999 and also received two nominations in the categories of Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2000 Grammy Awards.
Her second album, "Oops!_ I Did It Again", in 2000became a top ten hit in the U.S. and former countries and won her many awards respectively. The sales record for this album too was like the earlier one which raised her to the top of success mantle.
By this time, Britney`s personal life was gaining more popularity than her professional one. Her rollercoaster relationship with Justin Timberlake, her inclination towards extra exposure and use of animals in one of her performances and above all her claims to remain virgin till marriage were first to make teenage girls parents worried over the result she was having on their children.
Her third album, Britney came out in November 2001. Although not as successful as her previous albums, she assumed some creative control by co-writing five of the album's tracks. It surpassed Michael Jackson's album Invincible when it made a successful debut at turn one in the U.S. by selling 745,744 units during its first week. The album's success made her the sole female artist in music history to make her first three albums debut at turn one.
In November 2003, Spears released her 4th studio album, In the Zone, which further led the fall of her career that started sloping down with her third album.This was the time when Britney got married to childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander in 2004 on a spree and dismayed the man with annulling the wedding only after 55 hours.
She later got busy and subsequently married to Kevin Federline, and geared up for her fifth studio album Blackout. November 2004 saw the loss of her first greatest hits collection, Greatest Hits: My Prerogative. And she soon decided to have a career shift to get a family.
She took up tours about the earth for the advancement of this record. And in November 2005, Spears released her first remix album, B in the Mix: the Remixes. Meanwhile, her personal life was going havoc with her filing for divorce in November, 2007 and the ugly turn in her children`s custody case. Her breakdown few months later compelled the tribunal to pass in the hands of her children to her ex husband.
Despite her staying in rehab and the rather controversial events in her life, Britney Spears is still famous among her ardent fans and one promise that she will spring back presently to the same heights as before.
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