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| ==Career== | ==Career== | ||
| ===Backup Dancer=== | ===Backup Dancer=== | ||
| Early on, Federline worked as a backup dancer for ],], ], ], ], the band ], and ex-wife Britney Spears' opening act. | |||
| ===Musician=== | |||
| After being introduced by his pregnant wife, Federline performed his first "official" single titled "]" as the final act of the 2006 ]. Federline was nominated in another category (Teen Choice Award for Male Red Carpet Fashion Icon) though he did not win. Federline's music performance on the Teen Choice Awards received mixed reviews at best. The Associated Press described the performance as "crap" and concluded that Federline "apparently" "couldn't rap."<ref>http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15321559.htm</ref> The same conclusion was not reached by some within the ] community, as Elliot Wilson, chief editor of ] quipped that Federline should be ignored, stating, "he's a joke, basically." <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Aug22/0,4670,MusicKFedapossDebut,00.html</ref> Federline's previous single, "]," released on ], 2006, was panned by many music industry critics, with Entertainment Weekly describing PopoZão as worse than expected, and music trade magazine Billboard echoing that the song was "a monument to mediocrity."<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182674,00.html</ref> | |||
| Federline released his only album, '']'' on ], ], via his own record label "Federation Records," which is being distributed through Reincarnate Music. Initial critical reviews of Federline’s debut album have mostly negative. However, ], Senior Editor of ] (AMG) was less charitable: “Federline's debut album, Playing with Fire, is indeed bad, but it's bad in an uninteresting way; it's as dull and predictable as its title... he's not nearly as shocking as he'd like to believe or as amusing as his haters would hope: he just comes across as a big boob.... It's also a bore because he's a boor, writing endlessly about the same three topics: his alleged superstardom, his hatred of the media, his love of parties and dope... it often sounds like he can't quite understand the meaning of what he saying, whether he's casually blaspheming ("Like ] in every way/I'm crucified every day"), (or) suggesting that he loves dope as much as he loves his wife ("fell in love with the herbs just like my wife")."<ref> http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:scddyl76xp9b~T1</ref> Similarly, Preston Jones of ] echoed, "Federline can only rap about weed, his bank account, his wife, fighting anyone who looks at him sideways, and partying 'til three days from now—roughly in that order.... An oh-so-tiny sliver of myself kind of wanted Playing With Fire to be less aggressively shitty than it is, if only so the restless, rapacious media would ease off this tattered target of its ire—unfortunately, this disc is just as disposable and dumb as you'd expect."<ref>http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=1005</ref> Other critics panned the album, as ]'s Kevin O'Donnell called it "reprehensible" and a "tragicomedy";<ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/12015164/review/12245201/playing_with_fire</ref> while ]'s Chris Willman proclaimed that it was "a concept album about squandering Britney Spears' fortune."<ref>http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/music/0,6115,1553890_4_0_,00.html</ref> | |||
| Despite months of promotion, Federline's album debuted in the ] at #151, with first-week sales reported at 6,485. According to SoundScan, ''Playing with Fire'' placed 16th-best out of 19 new releases that week. Second week sales were far worse, with only 1,200 copies sold, dropping the album from being ranked within the Billboard 200.<ref>http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1545837/11152006/fergie__4_.jhtml</ref> Commercially, the "Playing with Fire" concert tour is also courting disaster. In ], Federline performed before an estimated audience of 300, out of a total seating capacity of 1,500 at ].<ref>http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21248350.shtml</ref> Despite giving away free tickets, approximately three-quarters of the seats at his ] performance were empty.<ref>http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/08/desperate-k-fed-cant-give-it-away/</ref> Four of the eight scheduled "Playing with Fire" concert tour performances (], ], ], and ]) have been cancelled.<ref>http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/two%20federline%20shows%20cancelled%20due%20to%20poor%20ticket%20sales_1012300</ref><ref>http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/weblogs/music/archives/006132.html</ref> Ticket sales for his last scheduled concert in Los Angeles have stalled, prompting concert organizers at the concert hall to give away tickets. Concert hall staff members reportedly had “large stacks of tickets and were pleading (with little success) for incoming concert-goers to take a few tickets.”<ref>http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/free%20federline%20tickets%20fail%20to%20entice%20fans_1014200</ref> | |||
| ===Television appearances and professional wrestling=== | |||
| Federline co-starred with Spears on the 2005 ] show, '']'', which consisted of home videos shot by the couple. He also appeared in the 2004 movie, '']''. Federline subsequently guest-starred as a street hoodlum in ] of '']'' that aired on ], ] in the USA and Canada. | |||
| He later appeared on the ], ] and ], ] editions of '']'', in which he got into staged (or ] in pro wrestling argot) physical altercations with ] ]. He appeared again during the ] ] event '']'', hitting Cena with ]'s ] and helping Booker retain his title. The next night, ], he challenged Cena to a match at the New Year's Day edition of ''RAW'', which Cena accepted. | |||
| ==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
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Kevin Earl Federline, (also known as "K-Fed") " and most recently, "Fed-Ex") was born March 21, 1978 in Fresno County, California. Federline is an American professional dancer. He is famous for the marriage to his estranged wife, singer Britney Spears.
Career
Backup Dancer
Personal life
Federline is noted for his marriage to American dance-pop superstar Britney Spears. They married on September 18, 2004. Federline previously dated actress Shar Jackson, with whom he has two children. Kevin and Shar's daughter, Kori, was born on July 31, 2002, and their son, Kaleb, was born on July 20, 2004. He has also fathered two children with Spears, Sean Preston (born on September 14, 2005) and Jayden James (born on September 12, 2006).
Federline courted Spears while Shar Jackson was pregnant with his child. This prompted Shar Jackson to comment that, "it wasn't like just breaking up a relationship. It was like breaking up a family."
On November 7, 2006, Spears filed for a divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Federline was in Toronto at the time promoting his new album for the Canadian music station MuchMusic, and it has been widely-speculated that he received the news via text message the night before. The moment that Kevin received the text message was caught on camera. The Associated Press reported that a day after Spears filed divorce papers, Kevin Federline counter-filed court papers seeking spousal support and sole custody of the couple’s two children.
Discography
Album
- Playing with Fire (October 31, 2006)
Notes
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15499958/
- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22mr.+britney+spears%22
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/federline_future
- http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,632184,00.html
- http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/07/britney.divorce/index.html
- http://wfrv.com/entertainment/entertainment_story_312204726.html
External links
- Official site
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- Article on Kevin Federline
- Video of Kevin Federline at rehearsals.com