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Biography
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' (qv) 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' (qv) 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.
Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).
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Debbie Harry
