Paula Abdul
Before she was an idol-picker, Paula Abdul was a performer herself.
The former L.A. Laker cheerleader/choreographer caught a break while working
on videos with Janet 
Jackson. After working out moves for bands such as
Duran Duran and ZZ
Top, Abdul jumped into her own singing career in 1988. Straight
Up, her third single from her debut album, Forever
Your Girl, hit number one, and she followed through with three
more smashes, taking the album for a ten-week ride in the top slot, appearing
in a pas de deux with a cartoon cat in the clever
video for Opposites Attract, and becoming a role
model for young singer-dancer wannabes everywhere.
After two more chart-topping albums, her career hit a legal snag (she was sued by a former backup singer), but she bounced back in 1995, with Head Over Heels. After that release, she shifted her focus to acting and songwriting (she wrote Spinning Around for Kylie Minogue in 2000), and lately she is best known as a keen judge of musical talent (as well as the buffer between Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell) on the TV phenomenon American Idol.
DISCOGRAPHY
2000 |
Paula Abdul - Greatest Hits |
1990 |
Shut Up and Dance |
1995 |
1988 |
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1991 |
Spellbound |
