Paula Abdul Biography

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album, including "Nasty" which led her to earn her first award for Best Choreography at MTV Video Music Awards in 1986. This achievement undoubtedly brought her to be considered as one of the most promising choreographers in Hollywood. She afterwards was involved in many other music videos of some notable artists of the 80s, such as INXS, George Michael, Debbie Gibson, Prince, and Duran Duran. Not only music videos, she also did the choreography in various movies, like "Dragnet" (1987), "Big" (1988), and "Coming to America" (1988). However, it was Fox TV's "The Tracey Ullman Show" (1987) that marked her career as she brilliantly gained an Emmy Award in the category of Best Choreography in 1989.

Obtaining success and wealth as a prominent choreographer, Paula kept looking for chances to develop another potentiality she possessed. Previously being complimented by Janet Jackson on her vocals, she made up her mind to become a singer. In order to materialize her goal, she eagerly used her savings to record a demo tape. When it reached Virgin Records America, the label got impressed, thus offered her a recording contract. In June 1988, she finally released her debut album entitled "Forever Your Girl." After only ...

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making a little sound in the beginning, the album's sale scored a significant escalation up to seven million copies in U.S. only. Moreover, it wonderfully reached first rank at The Billboard 200. Four out of the album's 10 tracks were also the number one hits, namely "Straight Up", "Cold Hearted", "Forever Your Girl," and "Opposites Attract." The latter even brought her to acquire a Grammy Award for Best Music Video-Short Form in 1991. This superb attainment surely established Paula as the new American pop-dance queen while brought her to embrace huge fame and commercial success. Following this glorious achievement, a collection of dance remixes from "Forever Your Girl" entitled "Shut Up and Dance: Dance Mixes" was released in May 1990.

In 1991, Paula's next album, "Spellbound," came up and proved to produce another sweet success even tough it could not surpass the greatness of her first album. Two singles from the album entitled "Rush Rush" and "The Promise of A New Day" hit the top spot at Billboard Hot 100. In the meantime, three other tracks were included in the top 20 of the chart. As for the album itself, it magnificently rose to the highest position at The Billboard ...