Within three weeks she became head choreographer. In her freshman year, she tried out for the Los Angeles Lakers' famed Laker Girls squad and was selected from a pool of 700. Abdul, who was extremely self-conscious about her weight, had been taught this by her much taller fellow ballerinas, and she herself began at 16 after dining with fellow cheerleaders.Ībdul enrolled at California State University at Northridge to study broadcasting.
At 15, she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, where she learned that her long-legged teachers stayed lithe by binging and purging their food. She attended Van Nuys High School where she was on the cheerleading squad, played flute in the band, and was an honors student.
That was my consciousness.Ībdul began dance lessons around the age of eight and showed a natural talent for it. My favorite artists were Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, the O'Jays-that's what I grew up on. Black kids identified with me because we all danced together, and we shared that love for art. In an interview in the May 1990 Ebony magazine, she says, when asked about black influence:Ībsolutely.As a young kid growing up, I admired the talent of so many. As a small child Abdul's interest in a career as a performer was inspired by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin' in the Rain as well as such entertainers as Debbie Allen, Gregory Hines, Sammy Davis Jr., Fred Astaire, and Bob Fosse. She and her sister, Wendy, who is seven years older, lived with their mother in the San Fernando Valley. When Abdul was seven, her parents divorced. Abdul's father is African-American but comes from a family of Syrian Jews who immigrated to Brazil, while her mother is also Jewish and from Saint Boniface, an area of Winnipeg, Canada.
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After that she suffered a series of reverses in her professional and personal life, until she found renewed fame and success in the 2000s as a judge on the highly rated television series American Idol.Ībdul was born in San Fernando, California to Harry Abdul, who once worked as a livestock trader and owns a sand and gravel business in California, and Lorraine Rykiss, a former concert pianist who once worked as an assistant to film director Billy Wilder. In the 1980s, her career rose rapidly, from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to being a highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a pop music singer with a string of top hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American Emmy Award-nominated, Grammy-winning, multi-platinum singer, choreographer, dancer, television personality and actress.
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