Parris Renee Goebel (born 29 October 1991), also known professionally as Parri$, is an award-winning New Zealand-born choreographer, dancer, singer, director and actress of Samoan descent. Her dance crew The Royal Family has won the World Hip Hop Dance Championship three times.
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Early life
Goebel was born and raised in Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand, the youngest of four children of Brett and LeeAnn Goebel. She was interested in dance from a young age and started hip-hop lessons when she was 10. When she was 15, she started the dance group ReQuest with four female friends. Initially they practised in Goebel's aunt's garage and later at her father's warehouse. After a year working together, they went to the Monsters of Hip Hop Dance Convention in the United States and Goebel was selected to dance in the finale performance of the convention.
Following the convention, Goebel left Auckland Girls' Grammar School to concentrate on her dancing.
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Career
Goebel has worked with artists including Little Mix, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, BIGBANG, 2NE1, iKON, GDragon, Taeyang, and BLACKPINK. Her work has included choreographing routines and starring in music videos and movies. One of her notable successes was her work choreographing the video "Sorry" for Justin Bieber, which as of December 2016 is the 3rd most viewed video on YouTube with more than 2 billion views. This video in fact won the 'best video of the year' award at AMAs. Goebel went on to choreograph and direct all thirteen of Justin Bieber's Purpose: The Movement videos. These videos have totaled over 4.6 billion views combined.
Goebel and her father, who is also her manager, run The Palace Dance Studio in Auckland.
In 2012, Goebel starred on both America's Best Dance Crew and Dancing With the Stars Australia. She then worked on Jennifer Lopez's 2012 world tour and performed with her on the American Idol season 11 finale.
Goebel went on to choreograph and take on a role in the American 3D dance film Step Up: All In. The movie was released on 8 August 2014.
In 2015, her choreography for DeeWunn's "Mek It Bunx Up" went viral and has since received over 8 Million Views on YouTube.
In 2015, New Zealand came up with its first hip-hop featured film called 'Born to Dance'. Goebel was the leading choreographer of this movie. Stan Walker, the winner of Australian Idol, 2009, who starred as one of the main actors of the movie and close friends with Goebel, described her to be the best to work with.
Goebel is now acting as Model and Influencer and has shot with Culture and Independent British publication FGUK Magazine.
Music
On 8 August 2016 Goebel released her first music video to the song "Friday", which was then featured on her EP Vicious. Later in August 2016, she released a music video for "Nasty", which is also featured on the EP.
In December 2016 she released her debut album "Vicious" which featuring a slew of talent including Jamaican Dancehall star, DeeWunn.
Style
Goebel is known for her particular style, known as polyswagg. As she describes it, her style is based on hearing, breathing and living the music, being passionate while dancing and transmitting feelings. She also draws on music inspirations from DanceHall style. Large amounts of her routines include this element, most notably in the Royal Family's World Hip Hop Dance Championship performances.
Awards
In 2009, Goebel was awarded the Street Dance New Zealand Choreographer of the Year and Dancer of the Year awards. In 2014, she was named Female Choreographer of the Year at the World Of Dance Awards in Los Angeles.
In 2006 she was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifka Awards.
In 2015 she was presented with the Top Variety Artist Award from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand Inc.
In 2015, Goebel won the Young Leader category of the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.
In 2016 she won Female Choreographer of the Year and Live Performance of the Year at the World Of Dance Awards.
In 2016 the advertisement that she choreographed for New Zealand Post won Worst Ad 2016 in the TVNZ Fair Go Ad Awards
World Hip-Hop Dance Championships
Palace Dance Studios crews and their records in the annual competition.
*Denotes disbanded crews.
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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