Britney Jean Spears was born December 2, 1981 in Kentwood, LA to Jamie and Lynn. Britney
has an older brother Brian ans a younger Sister Jamie Lynn. Britney began performing at
an early age, and when she was 8, she auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club. Although she
was too young for the show, a producer saw her potential and helped her secure an agent in
New York City where Britney spent the next three years studying dance and music at the
renowned Off-Broadway Dance Center and Professional Performing Arts School. She also had
small roles in commercials, theatre and films. She also began appearing in national
commercials and Off-Broadway shows including the 1991 comedy, "Ruthless," based on
the 1956 thriller "The Bad Seed." "At 10 I was playing this really bad child who seems
real sweet but she's evil too. It was so much fun," she recalls. Britney's big chance
came when she tuned 11. Now she was old enough to earn a spot on the Mickey Mouse Club
and starred on the popular show for two years, relocating with her family to Orlando.
"It was fun for awhile but I started getting itchy to get out again and see the world"
After her stint on TV, Britney returned home but she still had dreams of making it in
the music industry. "I've always wanted to be a singer," she declares. Armed with those
desires and a powerful voice, went back to New York when she was
15 and began to make the rounds of record labels. She sang accapella for executives at
Jive Records who saw and heard right away that in the teenager from Kentwood, LA,
there were the makings of a star. Britney was signed soon after her audition and began
work thereafter on what would become "Baby One More Time."
The most noticeable aspect of the single, the video and the album is maturity, which is
just what Britney had in mind. "People have to remember that when I did my first album
I was only 16. I had never been in the studio, it was all new to me and so before I let
people help me out and honestly I think that was because I was just so new to the music
industry, not only because I was young. But making records and being part of the process
and becoming more in charge of my sound was something I had to experience and grow with
and on this album I?ve had the chance to do that. This album is closer to who I am.
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