While she’s best known today as a loopy (to put it mildly) reality show judge, Paula Abdul ranked alongside Janet Jackson, Madonna and Whitney Houston as one of the biggest female pop stars of the late Eighties and early Nineties. In addition to her musical success, she was a successful choreographer, working on everything from ZZ Top music videos to “The Tracey Ullman Show.” I won’t ask what the hell Tracey Ullman needed choreography for, but whatever that was, Paula [...]
Jheri Curl Fridays Presents The Definitive Guide to ’80s R&B: Gregory Abbott
With dashing good looks (like a singing version of Philip Michael Tho—oh, wait…) and a suave demeanor, Gregory Abbott briefly topped the charts in the mid-late Eighties with hits like the smash slow jam “Shake You Down.” Born in New York City of Venezuelan and Antiguan parents (accounting for his exotic good looks,) Gregory took to music at a young age—in addition to a variety of other pursuits. The vocalist and multi-instrumentalist majored in psychology, and taught English at U-Cal/Berkeley [...]
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