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Parris Goebel

Who is Parris Goebel? Parris Renee Goebel, also known as her name "Parris", is a New Zealand choreographer, dancer, singer, director and actress. 

Where did she grow up? Ms Goebel grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and is the youngest of four children. She has a Samoan, Chinese and Scottish descent. 

How/when did she study dance? Parris is an ambitious, talented, aspiring and creative girl since young. She has always been interested in dancing since she was little. She began to attend hip-hop lessons at the age of 10, where she was part of a dance group called "groupReQuest", along with her friends. A year later, their group joined the Monster of Hip-Hop Dance Convention in the United States, where Parris was selected in the finale performance. 

Since her international performance, Parris dance crew won eight gold medals, with five silver and five bronze medals.  She was also the creative director of the Royal Family Dance Crew who wan won the World Hip Hop Dance Championship three times. She lefts school at the age of 15 to pursue her dreams of being a dancer. She quickly gained a lot of supporters. J-Lo contacted Parris because she was amazed by her dance videos on YouTube. J-Lo asked the young lady to work on her 2012 world tour. Ever since, Parris has worked with big artists like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Sam Smith (How do you sleep?) , Little Mix, Janet Jackson and Justin Bieber (Sorry).