7 on Billboard's album chart, becoming one of the most successful remix albums to date. A remix album, Shut Up and Dance, was also released and reached No. 1s (three in 1989 and one in 1990): "Straight Up", "Forever Your Girl", "Cold Hearted", and "Opposites Attract". The album eventually became multi-platinum in the spring and summer of 1989, and it spawned five American Top Three singles, four of them No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart-the longest an album has been on the market before hitting No. In 1988, Abdul released her pop debut album, Forever Your Girl. She was a tireless worker, and relied on input from her vocal coach and producers to improve her sound. Although her voice was relatively untrained, her exceptional dancing proved marketable to the visually oriented, MTV-driven, pop music industry. In 1987, Abdul used her savings to make a singing demo. Television credits include The Tracey Ullman Show, American Music Awards, the Academy Awards, and several commercials, such as The King's touchdown celebration, as seen in a string of popular Burger King television commercials that aired during the 2005–2006 NFL season.ġ987–1994: Forever Your Girl and Spellbound Further credits include Coming to America, Action Jackson, Jerry Maguire, The Running Man, American Beauty, Can't Buy Me Love, and Oliver Stone's The Doors.
In film, Abdul choreographed sequences for the giant keyboard scene involving Tom Hanks’s character in Big.
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In December 2005, Abdul launched a cheerleading/fitness/dance DVD series called Cardio Cheer, which is marketed to children and teenage girls involved with cheerleading and dance. In 1998, she released a second video called Cardio Dance (re-released on DVD in 2000). In 1995, Abdul released a dance workout video entitled Paula Abdul's Get Up and Dance! (re-released on DVD in 2003), a fast-paced, hip-hop style workout. It was also due to the success of the video that Abdul was chosen to be the choreographer for the Jacksons' Victory tour.Ībdul choreographed videos for several singers throughout the 1980s, including many videos for Janet Jackson during her Control era. I'm not quite sure how I got through that." The success of the choreography in the video led to Abdul's career of choreographer in music videos. "Imagine me telling them what routines to do.
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"My only problem was how to tell the Jacksons how to dance," Abdul later recalled. She was signed to do the choreography for the video to their single "Torture". Six months later, she left the university to focus on her choreography and dancing career.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. Within a year, she became head choreographer. 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. 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.Ībdul studied broadcasting at the California State University at Northridge. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was a cheerleader and an honor student. In 1978, she graduated from Van Nuys High School and was voted girl with the funniest laugh.Īn avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a show business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin' in the Rain as well as Debbie Allen, Fred Astaire, and Bob Fosse.Ībdul began taking dance lessons at an early age in ballet, Jazz, and Tap. She has a sister named Wendy, who is seven years her senior. (née Rykiss), grew up in one of two Jewish families in Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada, with ancestors from the Ashkenazi Jewish minority in Russia and Ukraine, and Abdul derives Canadian citizenship through her. Abdul's father, Harry Abdul, was born into the Syrian Jewish community in Aleppo, Syria was raised in Brazil and subsequently immigrated to the United States her mother, the concert pianist Lorraine M. 2.6 2010–present: Live to Dance, The X Factor and So You Think You Can Dance Australia & AmericaĪbdul was born in San Fernando, California, to Jewish parents.2.5 2010–present: Live to Dance and The X Factor.2.2 1987–1994: Forever Your Girl and Spellbound.
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