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Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American multi-platinum selling Grammy Award-winning singer, dancer, television personality, jewelry designer, and Emmy Award-winning choreographer. In the 1980s, Abdul rose from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team to being a sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a Pop-R and B singer with a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s. According to Abdul, she has sold over 53 million records to date. After her initial period of success, she suffered a series of reverses in her professional and personal life, until she found renewed fame and success in the 2000s as a judge on the highly rated television series American Idol. Abdul was born in San Francisco, California, to Harry Abdul, a former livestock trader and owner of a sand and gravel business, and Lorraine Rykiss, a concert pianist who once worked as film director Billy Wilder s assistant. Abdul s father was a Sephardi Syrian Jew who immigrated with his family to Brazil and then to the U.S. while her mother Lorraine Rykiss is also Jewish and originally from Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Canada. Her maternal grandfather was named William Rykiss and was a proprieter of the general store in Minnedosa, Canada.