Britney Spears : Musician

By Kristyne McDaniel

Born on the second of December in 1981, Britney Spears has become one of the most recognizable popular icons today, and still remains in a class that has seemed to fuel the many various tabloid stories entwined around her fame.  This Grammy-award winning American pop star has made occasional forays into acting as well as writing, and has been prominently recognized for her studio albums and music videos, with which she has gained worldwide attentions after coming to fame as a young child.

She began as a member of the Mickey Mouse Club in the early Nineties, but soon afterward took a five-year break from entertainment, though she came back onto the entertainment scene with her debut studio release that topped the charts in 1998.  Her second studio effort did just as well, becoming a massive hit record, and led her into the world of advertising and endorsing for the likes of Pepsi in early 2000.  Pushing her to strike out in a number of directions while she worked on her consecutive albums, which didn’t yield as many sales as the last two, but included more input from her directly.

After a well-publicized relationship with pop singer Justin Timberlake, she married dancer Kevin Federline in 2004, and the following year gave birth to her son, Sean Preston.  Born and raised in Louisiana, Spears was an accomplished gymnast until the age of nine, and participated in many state-level competitions before joining the New Mickey Mouse Club after appearing on the talent show Star Search.  A few years later, Spears recorded a demo that came to the attention of a Jive Records executive, and began work on her first album shortly afterward.

Throughout much of the early part of the new century, Britney Spears has placed herself firmly at the forefront in the trend of pop stars that filtered through from the Nineties, and had grown to become one of the most talked-about personalities in current popular culture.  In 2002, she had her first starring role in a movie, and eventually branched out in other directions to return to recording and earning a Grammy later in 2003.  Up until now, she has dabbled in her own line of perfumes, and decided to have children with her husband in late 2004.  In all, Britney Spears is someone not soon forgotten by the public awareness.