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Britney Jean Spears was born on the 2nd of December 1981, in Kentwood, Louisiana. As a young girl growing up, she always knew she wanted to pursue a musical career and took her talents to her local church, where she performed "What Child Is This," and even on national television, with her appearance as a Star Search contestant. At the age of 8, Britney auditioned for the popular children's variety show, Mickey Mouse Club, but was refused because of her young age. Luckily for Britney, one of the show's producers saw the young singer's talent, and helped her find an agent in New York City.
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Britney Spears was on a TV show for children in 1991 and 1995 called the New Mickey Mouse Club. Other people on the show during this time were singers Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, and JC Chasez (who would later be members of the band *NSYNC), and actors Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell.
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Christina Aguilera won a Grammy Award as best new artist in 1999, when she was a midriff-baring teen singer in the Britney Spears mold. Aguilera and Spears were both in the cast of TV's The Mickey Mouse Club in the early 1990s, and Aguilera got her first big break singing the song "Reflection" for the soundtrack of the 1998 Disney movie Mulan. But her self-titled 1999 album spawned the sultry single "Genie In A Bottle" and her not-so-Disneylike preference for tight shorts, naughty innuendo and platinum curls gave her career a controversial cachet. She won a second Grammy in 2001 for her cover (in collaboration with fellow stars Mya, Pink and Lil Kim) of Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" for the soundtrack to the movie Moulin Rouge. Her other albums include the Spanish-language album Mi Reflejo (2000), Stripped (2002, featuring the hit singles "Beautiful" and "Dirrty"), and Back to Basics (2006).
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Entertaindom reported that Rocker Courtney Love has hit out at musical superstars Eminem, Britney Spears and Marilyn Manson. After making a surprise appearance as a special guest at the first Rockgirl Music Conference in Seattle last week, the Hole frontwoman held court for a 90-minute debate at the city's Renaissance Madison Hotel -- and let rip into the three singers. She described rapper Eminem as "the first totally post-modern artist," saying that "without context he's nothing -- without that endorsement from Dr. Dre, he's nothing." She said Manson does not sell that many records, "because it's not 1975." And then the "People vs. Larry Flynt" actress finally laid into Britney, saying the "Baby One More Time" pop princess was "like a Barbie." Love did manage one compliment... -- calling the man behind many of Britney's hits, Max Martin, a "genius."
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[O]n Wednesday, singer/songwriter Ne-Yo, who wrote several potential songs for Spears, told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show “[Britney has] gotta remind people why they love her in the first place. She’s gotta get their minds off her personal life and back on the music.”
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Dotmusic reported Britney Spears fans waited patiently for two hours in the rain last night (Wednesday November 15th) to see their hero at her European tour farewell bash. Metropolitan police had to temporarily close the street where the American-style diner Planet Hollywood is situated as the celebrities arrived to help the teenage sensation party. The singer was presented with a doll of herself on her arrival and she smiled and said 'thank you' before being despatched to the VIP lounge. Spears, who wore tight jeans, a purple top with feathers and pointed snakeskin boots, spent little more than an hour at the shindig but other famous folk flocked to join in the fun. Chart-toppers A1 were there along with crooner Finley Quaye, glamour model Jordan, US child actor Macaulay Culkin and TV presenter Dani Behr. Britney's tour comes to a spectacular finish at Birmingham's NEC on November 21st.
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