She was signed to do the choreography for the video to their single " Torture". Within a year, she became head choreographer.Ĭareer 1982–1986: Dance and Choreography Era Ībdul was discovered by The Jacksons, after a few of the band members had watched her while attending a Los Angeles Lakers game. During her freshman year, she was selected from a pool of 700 candidates for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team-the famed Laker Girls. In 1980, she graduated from Van Nuys High School.Ībdul studied broadcasting at the California State University, Northridge. At 15, she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, and in 1980 appeared in a low-budget Independent musical film, Junior High School. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was a cheerleader and an honor student. Abdul began taking dance lessons at an early age in ballet, jazz, and tap. Abdul lived next door to her future husband, John Dee, and his family.Īn avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a show business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin' in the Rain. She has a sister named Wendy, who is seven years her senior. (née Rykiss), grew up in one of the two Jewish families in Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada, and has Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors from Ukraine. Her mother, the concert pianist Lorraine M. Abdul's father, Harry Abdul, was born into the Syrian Jewish community in Aleppo, Syria, was raised in Brazil, and subsequently immigrated to Canada.
Dee since 1986 and they have four children.
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She was also a guest judge on the All-Stars edition of Dancing with the Stars in 2012 and the tenth season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2013, and more recently became a permanent judge for that series along with the Australian version of the show for its 2014 revival.Ībdul has been married to actor Jonathan L. She went on to star on CBS' short-lived television series Live to Dance, which lasted one season in 2011, and was subsequently a judge on the first season of the American version of The X Factor along with her former American Idol co-judge Simon Cowell, the creator and producer of the show. She saw renewed fame and success as an original judge on American Idol in the 2000s, which she left after the eighth season.
She won a Grammy for "Best Music Video – Short Form" for " Opposites Attract" and twice won the " Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography".Īfter her initial period of success, Abdul decided to focus on primarily on her children and marriage. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her with Diana Ross for sixth among the female solo performers who have topped the chart. Abdul later scored a string of pop music hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
She began her career as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 before rising to prominence in the 1980s as a highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era. She is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. Paula Julie Abdul is an Canadian-American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.
A still of Paula Abdul from her "Under My Spell" tour ca.
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