Question: What 1979 born American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress released her second studio album in November 2001 to great success?

Context articles: Forever by Your Side (album)
Peter Kingsbery
List of songs recorded by Britney Spears
Gwen Stefani
Laundry Service
Pink (singer)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)
Weezer discography
Britney Spears
Missundaztood

Forever by Your Side is the 13th studio album of American popular R&B vocal group the Manhattans, originally released in 1983 by Columbia Records.
 The album was recorded at Celestial Sound Studios (New York, NY), Studio Sound Recorders (North Hollywood), Universal Recording Studio (Chicago, III) and produced by George Tobin Productions Inc, Leo Graham Enterprises, Mighty M. Productions Ltd.
 This album brought the two singles by The Manhattans of 1983: the song "Crazy" and the title track "Forever by Your Side".
 The ballad "Crazy" was the big hit of this album, peaked at #4 on the R&B chart.
 The love song "Forever by Your Side" had moderate success in the United States, peaked at #30 on the R&B chart, but has become a great success and a romantic classic in Brazil two years later, when she was part of the soundtrack of a soap opera in the country in 1985.
 The success made "Forever by Your Side" gain a Portuguese version the following year, called "Pra Sempre Vou Te Amar", which also was successful in Brazil and was recorded by several Brazilian artists.
 Another highlight of this album was the song "Just The Lonely Talking Again", which was later re-recorded by Whitney Houston in 1987, on her second studio album "Whitney".
 The original release of ""Forever by Your Side"" from 1983 in Vinyl LP has only eight tracks.
 In 2014, the album was remastered on CD with the caption ""Expanded Edition"" and brought five bonus tracks, totaling 13 tracks.
 These bonus tracks include the single version of "Crazy", "Just The Lonely Talking Again" and "Love Is Gonna Find You", with shorter durations than the original songs on the album.
 There is also the instrumental version of great success "Crazy", without the voices of The Manhattans.
 The final track number 13, "Lovin' You Did not Come Easy", was also recorded by The Manhattans, but, curiously, was never released in any album of the group.
 The song was released this 2014 remaster as an previously unreleased song, over thirty years after it was recorded.
Peter Kingsbery is an American singer songwriter who cofounded the band Cock Robin in the 1980s.
 He grew up in Austin (Texas) where he studied classical music.
 He moved to Nashville (Tennessee) where he began his career as a musician (he accompanied Brenda Lee on piano on a few tours) and then to Los Angeles at the end of the '70s where he began a career as a singer/songwriter.
 He composed a few songs for Smokey Robinson, and one of his compositions, "Pilot Error", sung by Stephanie Mills, got some success in the dance charts in 1983.
 At the beginning of the '80s, he founded the group Cock Robin with Anna LaCazio, Clive Wright and Lou Molino III which enjoyed great success in Western Europe mainly.
 Failing to break their native country with a first self-titled album in 1985, the quartet became a duo of Kingsbery and LaCazio when they released their second album in 1987.
 After the band split up in the early 1990s after a third album, Peter Kingsbery enjoyed a fairly successful solo career, releasing four albums over a decade, and scoring a major hit in France with the song "Only the Very Best."
 With his fourth album he tried his luck singing in French, the language of his adopted country (living there since some years back).
American singer Britney Spears made her chart debut in November 1998 with "...Baby One More Time", which attained global success and reached the top position of every major countries charts.
 It was followed by the release of her debut studio album, "...Baby One More Time", which opened at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart and US "Billboard" 200, being later certified fourteen-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
 Spears' second studio album, "Oops!
... I Did It Again", was released on May 16, 2000, and became the fastest-selling album ever by a female act in the US with 1,319,193 units sold in its opening week.
 It spawned four singles: "Oops!
... I Did It Again", "Lucky", "Stronger", and "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know".
 In November 2001, Spears' self-titled album spawned worldwide hit "I'm a Slave 4 U", which is notable for being a musical departure from her previous material.
 After a two-year break, Spears's fourth studio album, "In the Zone", was released in November 2003.
 The album featured "Me Against the Music", a collaboration with Madonna that reached the top position of the European Hot 100 Singles, and "Toxic", which earned Spears her first Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording and gained her credibility among critics.
 Her first compilation album, "", was released the following year and sold nearly 6 million copies worldwide.
Gwen Renée Stefani ( ; born October 3, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer, actress, and television personality.
 She is a co-founder and the lead vocalist of the band No Doubt that experienced major success after their breakthrough studio album "Tragic Kingdom" (1995) along with various successful singles, including "Just a Girl", "Don't Speak", "Hey Baby", and "It's My Life".
 During the band's hiatus, Stefani embarked on a solo pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album "Love.
 Angel.
 Music.
 Baby.
" Inspired by pop music from the 1980s, the album was met with both critical and commercial success.
 It spawned three commercially successful singles: "What You Waiting For?
", "Rich Girl", and "Hollaback Girl", the latter reached number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies.
 In 2006 Stefani released her second studio album "The Sweet Escape".
 The album produced two successful singles: "Wind It Up" and the album's title track "The Sweet Escape".
 Her third solo album "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" was released in March 2016 and became her first solo number-one album on the "Billboard" 200.
Laundry Service (Spanish: Servicio de Lavandería ) is the fifth studio album by Colombian singer and songwriter Shakira, globally released on 13 November 2001 by Epic Records.
 It is her first album to be primarily recorded in English.
 After the release of her fourth studio album "Dónde Están los Ladrones?
", which became a success in Latin America, Shakira was encouraged by American singer Gloria Estefan to record songs in English as she believed the singer had the potential to crossover into the English-language pop market.
 Shakira was initially hesitant to undertake the project, but later decided to learn English well enough to be able to write songs in the language herself.
 The title of the album was chosen to reflect Shakira's views on love and music.
 It was also released as "Servicio de Lavandería" in Hispanic regions in January 2002.
 Musically, "Laundry Service" is primarily a pop rock record but it also experiments with a variety of other musical styles, including Andean music, dance-pop, Middle Eastern music, rock and roll and tango.
 The lyrical theme of the album is mostly based around love and romance.
 Every song on the album was written and produced by Shakira.
Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979), known professionally as Pink (stylized as P!nk ), is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress.
 She was signed to her first record label with original R&B girl group Choice in 1995.
 The label, LaFace Records, only saw potential in Pink, offering her a solo deal.
 Choice disbanded in 1998.
 Pink rose as an artist with her debut solo album, "Can't Take Me Home" (2000).
 It was certified double-platinum in the United States and spawned two "Billboard" Hot 100 top-ten hits: "There You Go" and "Most Girls".
 She gained further recognition with the "Moulin Rouge!
" soundtrack "Lady Marmalade", which gave Pink her first Grammy Award as well as her first number-one single on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
 Pink took more artistic control and pursued a pop rock direction for her second album, "Missundaztood" (2001).
 It sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and yielded three US top-ten singles, "Get the Party Started", "Don't Let Me Get Me", and "Just Like a Pill".
Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd.
 It was released on 12 September 1975 by Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later by Columbia Records in the United States.
 Inspired by material the group composed while performing around Europe, "Wish You Were Here" was recorded during numerous recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios in London, England.
 Two of the album's four songs criticise the music business, another expresses alienation and the multi-part track "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a tribute to Syd Barrett.
 Barrett's mental breakdown had forced him to leave the group seven years earlier, prior to the release of the group's second studio album "A Saucerful of Secrets" (on which he only appeared on three tracks).
 It was lead writer Roger Waters' idea to split "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" into two parts that would bookend the album around three new compositions and to introduce a concept linking them all.
 The band had used a linking concept for their previous album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", to great success.
 As with "The Dark Side of the Moon", the band used studio effects and synthesizers and brought in guest singers to supply vocals on some tracks of the album.
 These singers were Roy Harper, who provided the lead vocals on "Have a Cigar", and the Blackberries, who added backing vocals to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".
The discography of Weezer, an American rock band, consists of 10 studio albums, two compilation albums, one video album, six extended plays, twenty-eight singles and twenty-four music videos. Weezer's self-titled debut studio album, often referred to as "The Blue Album", was released in May 1994 through DGC Records.
 The album was a huge commercial success, peaking at number 16 on the US "Billboard" 200 and spawning the singles "Undone – The Sweater Song" and "Buddy Holly", both of which were responsible for launching Weezer into mainstream success with the aid of music videos directed by Spike Jonze.
 It has sold 3.3 million copies in the United States and has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), becoming the band's best selling album to date.
 Following the success of their debut album, Weezer took a break from touring for the Christmas holidays.
 Lead singer Rivers Cuomo began piecing together demo material for Weezer's second studio album.
 Cuomo's original concept for the album was a space-themed rock opera, "Songs from the Black Hole".
 Ultimately, the "Songs from the Black Hole" album concept was dropped; the band, however, continued to utilize songs from these sessions into work for their second studio album. "
Pinkerton" was released as the band's second studio album in September 1996.
 Peaking at number 19 on the "Billboard" 200, it was considered a critical and commercial failure at the time of its release, selling far less than its triple platinum predecessor.
 However, in the years following its release, it has seen much critical and commercial championing.
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer, dancer, and actress.
 Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions and television shows as a child before signing with Jive Records in 1997.
 Spears's first and second studio albums, "...Baby One More Time" (1999) and "Oops!
... I Did It Again" (2000), became international successes, with the former becoming the best-selling album by a teenage solo artist.
 Title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!
... I Did It Again" broke international sales records.
 In 2001, Spears released her self-titled third studio album, "Britney", and played the starring role in the film "Crossroads" (2002).
 She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, "In the Zone" (2003), which yielded the worldwide success of the single "Toxic".
Missundaztood (stylized as M!ssundaztood) is the second studio album by American singer and songwriter Pink.
 The album was released worldwide in November 2001 to global commercial and critical success, critics welcoming the more mature pop rock sound Pink presented on the record, after a R&B debut.