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All about Deborah!
Birth name
Deborah Ann Harry
Height
5' 3" (1.60 m)
Deborah Harry was born in 1945 in Miami, Florida. She was adopted at three months and raised by the Harry family in Hawthorne, New Jersey. In the '60s she worked as a Playboy Bunny and hung out at Max's Kansas City, a famous Warhol-inhabited night spot.
Her professional singing career started in 1968 with a folk band called Wind In The Willows. She sang backup on their first (and only) album. In 1973, she met Chris Stein who became her long-time boyfriend. They created Blondie in 1974 after they both were in the Stilletoes, a theatrical "girl group" band. Blondie struggled for a few years, then went on to be one of the most successful bands of the late '70s and early '80s. The group broke up in 1983. Deborah has released five solo albums, acted in several movies and television shows and a few commercials (Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans, Sara Lee, Revlon). She's done many benefit shows in support of AIDS charities, a Broadway show (Teaneck Tanzai), poetry readings, and been one of the most notorious characters in the New York downtown scene. As of 1995 she's been doing shows in the US and Europe with the Jazz Passengers and Elvis Costello, filming two new movies ("Heavies" with Liv Tyler and Evan Dando and "Drop Dead Rock" with Adam Ant), and topping the dance charts with two newly remixed Blondie singles ("Rapture" and "Atomic"). A Blondie tribute album is due soon and a Blondie remix album titled "Remixed, Remade, Remodeled" is due in July 1995.
She and her band "Blondie" are suing EMI, their former record label for royalties. [1999]
She and her band "Blondie" reunited and released their first album since their 1982 breakup. [1998]
Her band "Blondie" broke up. [1982]
Her band was originally called "Angel and the Snakes, " but she changed the name to "Blondie" after the countless cat calls from truck drivers who would yell out the window at her when she was walking down the street, "Hey! Blondie!" Lead singer and songwriter for punk rock group Blondie.
Singer/actress
Blondie's video for their hit song "Rapture" featured a cameo appearance New York artist/Andy Warhol disciple Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose life was portrayed in the 1996 film Basquiat.
In 1981 "Harper's Bazaar" named her to their 10 Most Beautiful Women in America list.
Has admitted to getting a face lift.
Ranked #12 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
"Eat To The Beat", released in 1979, is an early video collection by "Blondie". The late supermodel Gia Carangi appears in the 8th video, "Atomic".
Starred in the Broadway play Teaneck Tanzi with Andy Kaufman. She played a female wrestler and Kaufman played the ref. The play closed after opening day. The play was her Broadway debut.
Dyed her hair red for her role as James Woods' masochistic girlfriend in David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983).
She and Blondie are credited, due to the rapped section of the song "Rapture" (which, among other things, name-drops Fab Five Freddy) and its graffiti-filled video, with helping to popularize hip hop music, especially among white audiences.
Personal quotes
"I wish I had invented sex."
"I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacumed a couple of times."
"The only person I really believe in is me."
"I know who I am, and it would be an insult to the Harrys." - on her refusal to locate her birth parents
Where are they now
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