BRITNEY JEAN SPEARS was born Dec. 2, 1981, in Kentwood, a small town in Louisiana. Britney always liked to preform and dance but mostly sing. Although technically her first public performance was at the age of 4 (when she sang "What Child Is This" at her local church). she auditioned for the mickey mouse club in 1991. Unfortunatly Britney was too young to take part. But there was one highlight as the manager and crew noticed Britneys talent and sent her off to a dancing school. In 1993 she went back to the MMC and at the age of 11 became a mickey clubber.

After her run on the MMC, Spears attended high school at home in Louisiana for a year, before heading back to New York at age 15 to audition for executives at Jive Records. She signed a development deal with Jive and over the next two years recorded her debut album with producers Eric Foster White, who had worked with Whitney Houston (one of Spears’s professed influences, with Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Mariah Carey), and Max Martin, who worked with fellow popstars the Backstreet Boys.

After returning home for a short time to become a "regular" high school student, Spears was signed to the Jive record label, and finished recording her first album as a vocalist in 1998. Released in 1999, ...Baby One More Time was a smash hit, and in conjunction with Spears' stunning good looks, rocketed her to superstardom. She followed up with Oops!...I Did It Again the following year, and then Britney in 2001.

In February of 2002, Spears released her first major motion picture, Crossroads, bringing her back to her performance roots in acting. She plays a young woman, Lucy, who embarks on an adventurous road trip with three friends. In search of a mother who abandoned her at a young age, Lucy represents the coming-of-age story at the beginning of the new millennium, also reflected in Spears' album Britney. Although perhaps less remarkable in other ways, Crossroads was a treat for undying teenage fans and admirers of Spears' sexual appeal.