Britney Spears

About Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American pop singer. Spears has sold over 85 million albums worldwide in under 9 years of entertaining. She released her debut album ...Baby One More Time in 1999, resulting in an international success. It spawned the Billboard magazine-topping single "…Baby One More Time". She released her second studio album Oops!... I Did It Again in 2000 with continued success. A third album, Britney, was released in 2001, followed by the release of her fourth album, In the Zone, in 2003. The album's single "Toxic" won Spears her first Grammy Award. After the release of a greatest hits collection, EP, and a remix album, she released her fifth album Blackout in 2007.

Spears's personal life began to gain more media attention after her marriage to Kevin Federline in 2004. Their marriage ended just two years later resulting in an ongoing custody battle. She gave birth to her first child in 2005 and to her second child in 2006.

Britney Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana as a Southern Baptist. Her parents are Lynne Irene (née Bridges), a former elementary school teacher, and Jamie Parnell Spears, a building contractor. Spears's brother Bryan works as a manager for the Spears family interests[10] and her sister Jamie Lynn is an actress and singer. Her maternal grandmother Lillian Woolmore was an English war-bride,[11] born in Tottenham, London[12] who met Spears's grandfather Barnett O'Field Bridges in England during World War II. Her paternal grandparents were June Austin Spears and Emma Jean Forbes.[11]