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Britney Spears is a famous American pop performer best known for her singing, songwriting and dancing. She is the only woman to have ever released four albums that debuted at number one on the charts. She has also starred in a number of reality television shows, has written two books, and has starred in a feature length movie.

Britney Jean Spears was born on December 2nd, 1981 in McComb, Mississippi to parents Jamie Spears, a building contractor, and Lynne Bridges, a grade school teacher. She spent most of her childhood growing up in Kentwood, Louisiana.

Even as a young girl, Britney seemed destined for life as a performer. She sang in church choirs and danced in local shows, and at age of 8 had an audition for Disney’s New Mickey Mouse Club, but was too young to be accepted at that time. Over the next several years she spent her summers attending the Professional Performing Arts School Center in New York, and performed in a series of off-Broadway productions. In 1992 she appeared on the show ‘Star Search’, but did not win. After this, she made another audition for the Disney show and this time was accepted. She appeared on the show in 1993 and 1994, along with Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera.

Britney’s musical career began when she recorded a demo album and was signed on with label Jive Records. She toured the United States and performed in concerts sponsored by U.S. teen magazines, and eventually joined the group NSYNC by becoming their opening act. During her time with NSYNC, she began dating Justin Timberlake.

Her first single of her own, ‘Baby One More Time’, toped charts and stormed across radio stations around the country toward the end of 1998. The resulting music video that aired on MTV displayed her dressed in the revealing and seductive clothes she would become known for. Though many people were upset with her new racy style, the video and her music career were off to an enormous success.

Britney Spears’ first full-length album, named after her single, debuted at number one in North America, and with over 14 million copies shipped to date, is the best selling album ever made by a teenager. In the next five years, Britney released three more albums all of which would also debut at number one, and would spawn several songs that would top charts around the world.

In 2002 she starred in the movie ‘Crossroads’, which was only moderately successful, and also made an appearance in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Around this time her relationship with Timberlake came to an end. In 2004, she married her childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander in Las Vegas, and the marriage was annulled fifty-five hours later. She remarried in 2004 to the dancer Kevin Federline, to whom she is still married today. The couple had there first son, Sean Preston Federline, born in the latter half of 2005.

Though starting a family has slowed her career down slightly, her music is still popular and widely sold around the world.

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