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Paula Abdul is (and identifies herself as) “Syrian-Brazilian-Canadian-American” according to one website. Her mom is French Canadian and her father is Brazilian-Syrian. More specifically her father Harry Abdul, was a Syrian Jew who immigrated to Brazil and then to the U.S. while her mother Lorraine Rykiss is also Jewish but from Winnipeg, Canada. Source: http://ethnicelebs.
