Parris Goebel

Parris Goebel
Born	29 October 1991 Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation	Choreographer, dancer, singer, actress and director

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.

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.

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 3.5 billion views combined.

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