Spears, Britney (1981-…), is a famous American pop singer. Spears won enormous popularity while still a teenager for her high-energy style of singing and dancing. She created an image of sexuality combined with youthful innocence in her videos and public appearances. Her outfits became a strong influence on clothing fashions for teenage girls.
Spears gained fame in 1998 with her first single recording, “…Baby One More Time.” The song was the title number in her first album, released in 1999. She became the youngest female performer to sell more than 10 million albums. The album …Baby One More Time also included the hit singles “From the Bottom of My Broken Heart,” “Sometimes,” and “(You Drive Me) Crazy.” Among Spears’s other albums are Oops! … I Did It Again (2000); Britney (2001); In the Zone (2003); Blackout (2007); Circus (2008), featuring the hit single “Womanizer”; Femme Fatale (2011); Britney Jean (2013); and Glory (2016). Spears has extended her popularity through her concerts, music videos, and television commercials.
Britney Jean Spears was born on Dec. 2, 1981, in Kentwood, Louisiana. As a child, she made television commercials. She also spent three summers at the Professional Performing Arts School in New York City. She performed on ”The All New Mickey Mouse Club” television series in 1993 and 1994. Spears signed a recording contract with Jive Records at the age of 15.
With her mother, Lynn, Spears wrote a memoir titled Heart to Heart (2000). In 2012, Spears was a judge on the singing-competition television show “The X Factor.” From 2013 to 2017, she starred in her own stage show at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. In 2020, Spears released the single “Matches” with the American boy band the Backstreet Boys. In 2023, a musical called Once Upon a One More Time, based on Spears’s songs, opened on Broadway. Spears wrote another memoir, The Woman in Me, which was published in 2023.
