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Britney Spears was born on
December 2, 1981 in Kentwood, Louisiana
to parents
Lynn Bridges (Woolemore) and Jamie Parnell
Spears. She
has a younger sister,
Jamie Lynn
Spears who is the star of Nickelodeon's Zoey
101.
She also
has a brother Bryan.
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She began singing and
performing at a very early age and appeared on
the TV show Star Search at age 8.
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In 1993
and 1994, she appeared on
Disney's The New Mickey Mouse Show, a variety
show for kids with other future pop-stars such
as
Christina Aguilera and
Justin Timberlake.
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Her big break came in 1998
when she released her debut song "Baby One More
Time" and it was a instant hit. She
followed up with her debut album of the same
name the following year to even greater success.
It shot up to number one on the Billboard
charts. She received two Grammy nominations for
this album - Best New Artist and
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for "Baby One
More Time")
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Her next album,
released the following year, Oops, I Did It
Again was another
smash pushing her to the top of the pop-diva
list. She received another two Grammy
nominations for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best
Pop Vocal Performance.
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In
November of 2001, she tried to shed
some of her innocence with her next album, the
self-titled Britney and videos showing an
older and sexier Britney. In 2001, she
also co-hosted the American Music Awards with LL
Cool J and signed a multi-million dollar
endorsement deal with Pepsi. The
Britney album gave her two more Grammy
nominations for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance (for "Overprotected) and Pest Pop
Album (for Britney). Once again a
Grammy was not in her stars.
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She
co-authored a book in 2001 with her mother Lynne
entitled
Britney Spears's Heart-to-Heart.
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Her movie debut came in
2002, with her role in Crossroads. The movie tanked in the theaters.
However, she was nominated for the MTV Movie
Awards for Best Dressed and Breakthrough Female
Performance as well as Teen Choice Award
nominations for
Film - Choice Actress, Drama/Action Adventure
and Film - Choice Chemistry (shared with Anson
Mount).
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Even though her
movie career did not start out well, she
always has her music, and in 2003, her next
album In the Zone was another chart topping
success. [Note: she co-wrote 8 of the songs on
the album.] She opened up a trend New York
restaurant in July 2002 named "Nyla." It has a
Louisiana type theme and atmosphere.
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She received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame in November of 2003.
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In 2003, she wrote
a sequel to the Heart to Heart book
entitled A Mother's Gift.
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She was briefly married
in January 2004
(approximately 2 1/2 days) to childhood friend
Jason Allen
Alexander (no, not the guy from Seinfeld) as a
spoof.
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She
got married to Kevin Fenderline in
September 2004, which at first seemed only to be
a media stunt - but was for real. She later
admitted that it was her who proposed to
Fenderline.
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In February 2005,
she won her first Grammy Award for Best Dance
Recording (for "Toxic") from the album
In The Zone. She also won a
BMI Cable Award for writing the theme song from
the TV show Zoey 101 (shared w/
Michael Corcoran).
In addition she was also nominated for the 2005
Teen Choice Award for
Choice TV Personality: Female.
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In April 2005 she announced that
she is pregnant and will be having their first
baby. The baby is due sometime in September.
Fenderline already has two children with actress
Shar Jackson - Kori (b. 2002) and Kaleb (b.
2004).
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She has her own
line of perfume called "Curious" that she began
selling in September 2004 and has sold millions
of dollars worth of merchandise since its
launch. She will be following this up with
a new fragrance called "Fantasy" that will be on
the shelves in September 2005.
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In November 2004
she released her Greatest Hits: My Perogative
albums, and just like everything else she has
leant her voice to, has done very well in sales.
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2005 has been a
busy year for Britney while everything is going
on, she has let the cameras follower her around
in her own reality TV show entitled Britney &
Kevin: Chaotic - which mostly showed home
videos taken by herself and Fenderline. [Note:
The DVD of the show will be available for sale
in September 2005]
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It has been
reported that Britney has given birth to a baby
boy on September 14th, 2005! They have named the
baby Sean Preston.
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It has been
reported at the end of April 2006 that Britney
is pregnant again!
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So what's in store
for this talented young entertainer and
entrepreneur? She is going to take some time off
from show-business for a little while so she can
spend time with her husband and new baby.
Afterwards, she will be back in the studio to
finish recording songs for her next album
entitled Original Doll. [Note: The single "Mona
Lisa" was already released in December 2004.] She will also be appearing in
a movie called In the Pink about an out
of work executive making big things happen with
a group of cosmetic saleswomen. The movie is due
to be released in 2007. Who knows, she may
continue another season of Chaotic.
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Favorites: singer =
Björk
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Tours:
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1998: Mall Tour
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1998: Hair Zone
Mall Tour
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1998: Opened up for
*NSYNC
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1999: ...Baby One
More Time Tour
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2000: Oops!... I
Did It Again World Tour
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2002: Dream Within
a Dream Tour
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2004: The Onyx
Hotel Tour
Biography by Ian Ripley,
PopStarsPlus.com, Sr. Staff Writer
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