Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (1981- ) is an American singer, actress, and prominent entertainment celebrity. Today she is highly influential in the pop music scene. Spears was born on December 2, 1981 in Kentwood, Louisiana.
In 1991, Spears attended the Professional Performing Arts School and studied in the off-Broadway Dance Center. In the age of 11, she took part in the television show The All New Mickey Mouse Club. The show was abolished in 1994. In 1999, she published her first album Baby One More Time, and the sale was extraordinarily well that it was the second-highest seller in the year. In the same year she appeared on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine.
In 2007, the business magazine Forbes ranked Spears the 12nd in the 20 richest women in the entertainment industry.[1]
Besides from music, she is also noted by various personal controversies such as marriages. In 2003, she voiced strong support to the U.S. President George W. Bush in an interview with Tucker Carlson.[2]
Sources
Citations
- ↑ Lea Goldman and Kiri Blakeley, The 20 Richest Women In Entertainment, Forbes, January 18, 2007.
- ↑ Britney Spears: 'Trust our president in every decision', CNN, September 3, 2003.
General references
- IMDB biography
- Crystal Reference Encyclopedia
- Britney Spears Timeline, by Associated Press, November 07, 2006.