Biography
Paul Abdul - American dancer, choreographer, singer, actress and TV presenter, Grammy Prize winner, owner of MTV Video Music Award nominations. She received twice "Emmy" for outstanding work at the Trecy Ullman show and the performance on American Music Awards 1990. Abdul was awarded the stars on the Hollywood "Alley of Glory" and the first received a show-premium "Choosing Children's Children" ("Nickelodeon Kids' Choice" Awards ").Childhood and youth
Paula Julie Abdul (Paula Julie Abdul) was born in the California city of San Fernando on June 19, 1962. Her father Harry Abdul is a leaving from the Jewish community of Aleppo, grew up in Brazil, in his youth immigrated to the United States, where she first sold the cattle, and then became the owner of the gravel and sand trading company.
Mother, a concert pianist Lorein Raikis - a native of Canada with Russian and Ukrainian roots, worked as an assistant director and scenario Billy Wilder, known on the films "In Jazz only girls" and "Gentle Irma". The family broke out when the future star was small, the mother alone brought up the floor and her senior sister Wendy.
From the little years, the girl loved to dance. Inspired by the numbers performed by Gina Kelly in the musical "singing under the rain", she began to take ballet lessons, steps and jazz. He studied on average educational institution Van Nace, was an excellent story, a member of the school support group.
At the age of 15, Abdul received a scholarship in a choreographic camp near Palm Springs, and in 1978 he starred in a low-budget independent musical film "High School".
At the end of the school, the school studied at the California State University. On the 1st year, she took the selection to the Chirildard Group of the Los Angeles Lakers Basketball Team. During the year, she became the main choreographer of the professional team of the fans.
Creation
Abdul's show-business came after the members of the famous team "The Jacksons" saw her performance on a basketball match. It was a key point in her biography. The girl was invited to shoot a video group on the song "Torture" by the dance director. Paul was very worried, showing the brothers Jackson, how to move. The success of choreography in the clip led to the fact that the floor began to continue to cooperate with musicians and actors.
The most famous floors of steel ballet for Janet Jackson's video "Nasty" and "Control", numbers for the "The Jacksons" show called "Victory", as well as the choreography of the scene of the film "Big", where Tom Hanks dances on a giant piano keyboard.
Soon the sex decided to leave the shadow of the stars with which she collaborated, and start the singer's career. It turned out that Abdul, an experienced dancer and choreographer, possessed weak vocal data. The girl had to work a lot with teachers to develop a voice range defined as mezzo soprano.
In 1987, the demo-disk was recorded on their own funds, which I liked the founder of Virgin Records. Abdul signed a contract with the studio and recorded the album "Forever Your Girl", published in 1988.
It was one of the most successful debuts of the late 1980s. The plate rose to the top of the American charts, 10 weeks held the 1st place in the Billboard 200 Charter, the album set a record for the number of newly released singles, received a platinum certificate in the United States.
At the 32nd grammy ceremony, Abdul won his first nomination for the "best video clip" on the song "Opposites Attract", in which the dark beauty of the floor dances on the streets and roofs of the city with a multiplication cat.
Another hit from the 1st album the floors of Abdul became the song "Straight Up". She won popularity thanks to the black and white clip shot by David Fincher and the singer himself. The video received 4 MTV Video Music Awards awards: "Best Women's Video", "Best Installation", "Best Choreography" and "Best Dance Video".
In 1991, Ivette Marin, Back-vocalist Forever Your Girl, filed a lawsuit against Abdul and Virgin label, arguing that it was she sang most of the songs album. The court fell on the side of the defendants and 2 years later made a decision in their favor.
In 1991, the 2nd Studio Album Floors Abdul "Spellbound" was released, which repeated the success of the previous one: 7 million copies were sold worldwide. The plate retained a dance character, supplemented by R & B. Ballad "Rush Rush", in the clip to which Keanu Rivz starred, became the 1st single to the album. After the release of the disk, the singer spoke with concerts in the USA, Canada and Asia countries as part of the Tour "Under My Spell".
In the same year, Paul was filmed in the popular advertising of the dietary cola, in which she danced with the digital image of his idiot Gina Kelly. The singer was awarded the stars in the Hollywood "Alley of Glory" in December 1991.
In 1995, after the break, Abdul recorded the 3rd Studio Album "Head Over Heels", which reached the 18th place in the Billboard 200 Charter in the United States, and later became the best-selling release. The main single of the "My Love IS for Real" record floor was performed with the singer of the OPRA Haza. In 1995, Abdul released a dance training video course in the hip-hop style called "Paula Abdul's Get Up and Dance!".
Two years later, on the floor, together with the producer and composer, Kara Diogard wrote a song called "Spinning Around", which was supposed to become a single from her new album. For personal reasons, Abdul did not release the disk, and the song was recorded Kylie Minogue.
In 1997-1999, Abdul played an ABC "touch of evil" in the ABC television film as a business woman who discovers that her guy is a serial rapist. In parallel with the filming, she released "Cardio Dance", the 2nd video course of training, and worked as a choreographer in several film and theatrical productions, including the Music "Reefer Madness" (1998) and the film "Beauty of American" (1999).
In 2000, the Virgin Records studio released the first of two collections of the singer, Paula Abdul: Greatest Hits, 2nd, "Greatest Hits: Straight Up!", Came out in 2007. In 2002, Paul Abdul continued his career on television. She became the judge and mentor in the popular show of young performers "American Idol", then the reporter of the Entertainment Tonight program.
In 2007, the personal life of the singer and TV presenter was shown in the realistic show "Hey, Paul". The behavior of the star in some episodes caused a negative reaction from critics and public, the project was closed after the 1st season.
In 2008, after a 13-year break, Abdul released the single "Dance Like Theres No Tomorrow", which became the first track of the album "Randy Jackson's Music Club Vol. one". Fans hoped that the singer began working on a new disk, but it was not. A year later, the pop star recorded the last today's composition "I'm Just Here for The Music", which he presented on the radio and in the American Idol project.
Since 2010, Paul has performed a judge in various projects on television - "Live to Dance", "The X Factor", "Dancing With The Stars", "So You Think You Can Dance" and others filmed in television shows as a guest star .
On August 6, 2016, at the Mixtape Festival in Pennsylvania, Abdul, for the first time in the age of 26, made a singer with a full-fledged network. A year earlier, the American team "New Kids On The Block" announced joint tour with the Pop Star of the 90s and the Boyz II MEN group.
Personal life
In the life of Paul Abdul had a lot of men. At the beginning of the career, she met with an American comic Arsenio Hall, then her boyfriend was John Steos, the star of the series "Ambulance". In 1991, the singer got acquainted with the actor Emilio Estevez. On April 29, 1992, young people got married and stayed together for 2 years.
The divorce coincided with other difficulties in the life of the floors, the main of which was a problem with health. Abdul since childhood suffered from the disorder of food behavior, which intensified when she became a pop star. I had to turn to doctors to treat Bulimia.
In 1996, the singer met his 2nd husband, fashion designer Breda Beckerman. The wedding took place in Bristol, in the staff of Connecticut. After 17 months of marriage, March 10, 1998, the spouses divorced, referring to irreconcilable differences. None of the marriage in the field was not.
In April 2005, Abdul said that she suffers from neurological disorder, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, which causes chronic pain. This disease is also known as Zudeek syndrome (complex regional pain syndrome).
Floors have repeatedly suffered from violent actions from the opposite sex. In April 2006, Abdul filed a complaint to the police station Hollywood, arguing that she became a victim of an attack on a private party: an unknown man grabbed her hand and threw a wall. According to the singer, she received a concussion and spine injury.
In 2011, on Valentine's Day, Paul quarreled with his beloved in the estate in Santa Barbara. The singer caused the rescue service, as the man locked it in the house and threatened to kill if she declared the police.
Another shock for Abdul was the suicide of the audition participants to the Aperican Idol show. In November 2008, the 30-year-old Semi, Gudspid found dead in the car near the singer's house in Los Angeles surrounded by photo and stars CDs. After this incident, the singer could not be at home for a long time, she had friends or spent the night in the hotel.
The celebrity did not put a cross on a personal life, in 2008-2010 she met with British TV presenter Simon Kowell, but married no longer came out. Paul believes that marriage is not for her. The main thing in life is to "find a friend with whom there will be close spiritual contact", love and respect that does not depend on the "piece of paper, in which it is written that someone is your legal spouse."
Paul Abdul now
In July 2018, Abdul announced that in the fall he would go to a solo tour in North America as part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of her debut studio album Forever Your Girl. Now the singer speaks with the program called "Straight Up Paula".
At a concert in Biloxi, Mississippi, October 20, 2018, during the execution of the Hit "The Promise of A New Day", the floor stumbled and fell from the scene to the parter. The singer did not suffer and found the strength to continue the speech.
Discography
- 1988 - "FOREVER YOUR GIRL"
- 1991 - "Spellbound"
- 1995 - HEAD OVER HEELS