Paula Abdul is a choreographer, dancer, singer and songwriter, a television personality and an actress. She started the career when she was a cheerleader of Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 years before she got to be known as the best choreographer in the beginning of the music video era. Afterwards, she scored the string of the pop music hits in the 1980s and in 1990s. She was born in 1962. She had six number one singles at the Billboard Hot 100 and they tied her with Diana Ross at the seventh position for female solo performers to top such chart. She got a Grammy Award in the category of the Best Music Video for the Short Form of the song Opposite Attracts. She won Primetime Emmy Award for being outstanding choreographer.
After being successful for many years, she suffered some setbacks in the personal and professional life. She got her success and fame renewed when she became a judge of American Idol of 2000s but she left when it was during the eighth season. She stared on the short lived television series of CBS called Live to Dance and it lasted only for one season. She was a judge for The X factor’s American Version with her co-judge in the American idol called Simon Cowell and he was the producer and the creator of this show. She was the guest judge for the All-Stars edition for Dancing With Stars in the year 2012.
From her biography, Paula Abdul was born in California State in the city of San Fernando. Her parents are Jewish, her father is Harry Abdul who was born from Syrian Jewish community born in Syria, raised in Brazil and emigrated to US afterwards. Her mother is a pianist called Lorraine M Rykiss and she grew up as a Jewish in Manitoba Canada. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish that came from Ukraine. She has two citizenships and they are Canada and United States. His sister is Wendy and in the year 1980s, she finished the school in Van Nuys High School.
She likes dancing and she got inspired tot the show business career in a classic film called Singin’ in The Rain where Gene Kelly performs. She started to learn how to dance when she was still young and she learnt to dance tap, jazz and ballet. She was a cheerleader at Van Nuys High School and she was honor student. Paula Abdul went to California State University and she was chosen to join cheerleaders in her first year.
Her bio, states that she has been married two times. The first one was to Emilio Estevez since 1992 until 1994 and the second one is to Brad Beckerman in 1996 and divorced in 1998. Her net worth is 30 million dollars. She was said to be dead by the celebrity death hoax.
| Birth Date: | 19 Jun, 1962 |
| Age: | 57 yrs |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | San Fernando |
| Education: | California State University, Northridge Van Nuys High School |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American-Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Spouse: | Emilio Estevez[1992-1994] |
| Net Worth 2021: | 30 million |
