Paula Abdul is an American singer, dancer and choreographer from the San Fernando Valley, California, who began her entertainment career in the early 1980s and launched a recording career in the late 1980s as a pop and R&B-influenced dance-pop artist. Her work combines pop, R&B and dance-pop with choreography-driven performances, and her career has encompassed recording, television choreography and on-screen mentoring roles that contributed to the visibility of performance-led pop in mainstream media.
