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Paula Abdul

Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001

DANCER AND choreographer Paula Abdul was one of America's most successful singers of the early '90s. Her first three albums of lightweight pop-dance music offered a reassuring image, in contrast to the threatening one of Madonna, and sold a total of over ten million copies.

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