Question:

For starters, how do you pronounce Paule?

Answer:

Simple! It's pronounced exactly like Paul. The name follows the elementary school grammar rule about not pronouncing the "e" that follows certain consonants. Like tale, whale, male, pale, cake, fake, etc. Yeah, same rule applies to Paule :)

And now that the grammar lesson is out of the way....

Paule's parents named her after 19th/20th-century French poet, essayist and philosopher Paul Valery. She even wrote a research paper on the inspiration for her moniker while in high school.

Being named after someone so artistic, Paule Valerie may have channeled Paul Valery's creative and artistic energy into this lifetime as she has been expressing herself through words, music and dance since childhood.

Paule Valerie began publicly expressing herself through taking up piano and alto saxophone as a child. She has performed in numerous concerts and recitals for over ten years and served as alto sax section leader for many of those performances.

As a teen, Paule's gift for speech was evidenced early on as she won first place during a district-wide oratorical competition of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in Yonkers, NY.

But music and public speaking were not the only artistic endeavors in which Paule engaged. The girl just couldn't sit still! She has participated in cheerleading, softball (shortstop was her fave position), volleyball, dance and step teams. 

Paule's induction into the world of dance and physical fitness began as a pre-teen as a result of recording countless Crunch Fitness and other ESPN morning fitness programs on television. Paule soon learned various dance and fitness styles through these recordings, including jazz, step aerobics, salsa, kickboxing and hip hop. When she felt comfortable enough with the basics, she progressed to live dance and exercise classes with flesh and blood instructors and students. Years later while in LA Paule auditioned for and received callbacks for two television dance programs. She became a featured contestant and shot the pilot for one of those shows.

An avid student with a competitive streak since the age of six, Paule went on to graduate summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. During her time at Penn she explored her flair for the camera as a panelist in a roundtable type debate and discussion program for Penn's television station, the oldest college television station in the country.

It was during her time at Penn that Paule also took up yet a third instrument - the drums. She made a brief stint into the world of "drumlining" shortly followed by a segue into African drums as a performer and executive board member of Penn's first and only African drum and dance troupe. It was during this time that Paule also began performing and learning dances from Africa and the African Diaspora, namely from West Africa and the Caribbean.

Through all that she has seen and experienced Paule's most poignant dance influences have been and continue to be West African and Cuban salsa.

An Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA) member, Caribbean-born and New York-bred, Paule Valerie now resides in Hollywood, CA where she continues to live out her artistic, creative and inspirational passions.

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