Debbie Harry

Deborah Harry was born Angela Tremble on July 1, 1945 in Miami, Florida. At three months, she was adopted by Catherine (Peters) and Richard Smith Harry, and was raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey.

In the 1960s, she worked as a Playboy Bunny and hung out at Max's Kansas City, a famous Warhol-inhabited nightspot.

Her professional singing career started in 1968 with a folk band called The Wind in the Willows. She sang backup on their first (and only) album. The band broke up shortly after failing to achieve commercial success or critical acclaim.

Blondie struggled for a few years, then went on to be one of the most successful bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but the group broke up in 1982. Harry has released five solo albums, acted in several movies and television series and a few commercials (Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans, Sara Lee, Revlon). She has done many benefit shows in support of AIDS charities, a Broadway show ("Teaneck Tanzi"), poetry readings, and been one of the most notorious characters in the New York downtown scene.

In 1973, she met Chris Stein, who became her longtime boyfriend.

They created Blondie in 1974 after they both were in the Stilletoes, a theatrical "girl group" band.

"Eat to the Beat", released in 1979, is an early video collection by Blondie. The late supermodel Gia Carangi appears in the eighth video "Atomic".

Was up for the female lead roles in the movies Raging Bull (1980) and TRON (1982).

In 1981, "Harper's Bazaar" named her to their 10 Most Beautiful Women in America list.

Was the original choice for Pris in Blade Runner: The Director's Cut (1982) before Daryl Hannah was cast.

Dyed her hair red for her role as James Woods's masochistic girlfriend in David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983).

As of 1995, she was doing shows in the United States and Europe with the Jazz Passengers and Elvis Costello, filming two new movies (Heavy (1995) with Liv Tyler and Evan Dando and Drop Dead Rock (1995) with Adam Ant) and topping the dance charts with two newly remixed Blondie singles ("Rapture" and "Atomic").

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 film Basquiat (1996).

Her band Blondie reunited in 1997 and released their first album since their 1982 breakup.

She appeared as a diva on VH1 Divas 2004 (2004). [April 2004]

Blondie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006 and the Rock Walk Hall of Fame on May 22, 2006.

She performed with Cyndi Lauper and Erasure in the first annual "True Colors" tour, which supports the GLBT community and advocates for the basic values and freedoms that should be shared by all Americans. She performed as a solo artist to promote her CD "Necessary Evil". [June 2007]

Featured as a (2010) Mattel Barbie Doll in the Ladies of the '80s Pink Label Collection [#R4461] along with Cyndi Lauper and Joan Jett. [July 2009]

She was inducted into the 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performing Arts category.