Debbie Harry

Deborah " Debbie " Harry ( born July 1, 1945 in Miami, Florida) is an American singer and actress. It began as folk and rock 'n ' roll singer, the international breakthrough came as a singer for the New Wave band Blondie.

Career

1945-1969: Early years

Debbie Harry grew up near Paterson on with adoptive parents. At the age of 19 she moved to New York, where she earned her living as a dancer, beautician and Playboy Bunny ( attractive waitresses in Playboy Clubs). Harry stepped to the beginning regularly in the New York club CBGB on, at that time an "in - shed " the punk scene. She also worked as a waitress at Max's Kansas City, the favorite haunt of Andy Warhol. In an interview she once remarked: " I Served Andy Warhol, Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis ."

Musically Harry started at the end of the 1960s with the folk band Wind in the Willows, whose only album was released on Capitol Records in 1968.

1974-1982: The era with Blondie

In the early seventies they came up with the emerging punk culture around the CBGB in contact and became part of the scene. They met the guitarist Chris Stein, and became a member of his band The Stilettos. In 1974 the two founded the band Angel and the Snake, which was later renamed to Blondie and became a top act of the New York artistic milieu.

In 1978, the single Little GTO / Holocaust On Sunset Blvd. ( D-Line ) by a group called New York Blondes. The A-side is a cover of Ronny & The Daytonas old hits GTO, sung by Deborah Harry. From in Germany then unknown Deborah Harry was learned for the first time in 1977 by Klaus Harpprecht in a report on the U.S. music and theater scene for ZDF.

In the spring of 1979, the lineup also managed international breakthrough with the title Heart Of Glass. Although Debbie Harry did with their wild and excessive appearances its best to maintain the image of a punk band, but only because of their activities as a model, including for Alien creator HR Giger was the band with her will be included as figurehead no longer the anarchic punk scene. Instead, it was " Blondie " the idol of the New Wave era. Harry's bleach-blonde hair was quickly copied a trademark and fans frequently.

With the launch of the music channel MTV in August 1981 learned Blondies career a further boost. As one of the first rock bands let Blondie music videos on MTV and was broadcast as quickly known to a mass audience.

1981-1997: Solo career and the Jazz Passengers

In the summer of 1981, published Harry - Blondie images already a little tired - her first solo album under the name Debbie Harry. Koo Koo was produced by Nile Rodgers, took his time, however, received little attention.

The end of 1982, Harry provisionally separated by Blondie, to focus on her solo career. Their second album Rockbird followed in the autumn of 1986, which among other things also the single and only British Top 10 hit French Kissin 'includes. The third work Def, Dumb and Blonde followed in the fall of 1989. Finally appeared in mid-1993 with Debravation their fourth and so far last album as a solo artist.

Mid-1990 Deborah Harry began to work regularly with the band Jazz Passengers. This resulted in, among other things, the album Individually Twisted, which was released in summer 1997. It is also to be heard on Bill Ware album Four.

Since 1999: Comeback with Blondie

Beginning of 1999, Blondie reported back with the seventh album No Exit and recorded titled Maria a worldwide chart success.

In summer 2007, Debbie Harry took part in the True Colors Concert Tour in favor of the Human Rights Campaign, along with Cyndi Lauper and Erasure. On 26 October 2007 her new solo album Necessary Evil was released in Germany.

Acting Career

Even as an actress Harry stepped over and over again in appearance. So she played in the bringing John Waters film Hairspray, a woman who does not shy away from a bomb blast at her daughter in a dance competition on.

In 1997, she played under the director Adam Bernstein in Six Ways to Sunday next to Norman Reedus as Harry Odum the female lead role of Kate Odum, who had them follow in My Life Without Me, the representation of a drawn from the life of a mother dying in 2002. She also played the role of Niki fire in the film Videodrome by David Cronenberg.

Together with Victor Bockris and Chris Stein wrote in 1982 the book Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie.

Studio albums discography

  • 08.1981: Koo Koo ( UK # 6, U.S. # 25)
  • 11.1986: Rockbird ( UK # 31, U.S. # 97)
  • 10.1989: Def, Dumb & Blonde ( UK # 12)
  • 07.1993: Debravation ( UK # 24)
  • 09.2007: Necessary Evil ( UK # 86)
  • 07.1981: Backfired ( UK # 32, U.S. # 43)
  • 10.1981: The Jam what Moving ( U.S. # 82)
  • 12.1983: Rush Rush ( Scarface - Soundtrack, UK # 87)
  • 11.1986: French Kissin 'in the USA ( UK # 8, U.S. # 57)
  • 02.1987: Free to Fall ( UK # 46)
  • 04.1987: In Love with Love ( UK # 45, U.S. # 70)
  • 09.1988: Liar Liar ( Married to the Mob - Soundtrack)
  • 07.1989: I Want did Man ( UK # 13)
  • 10.1989: Brite Side ( UK # 59)
  • 03.1990: Sweet and Low ( UK # 57)
  • 05.1990: Maybe for Sure ( UK # 89)
  • 06.1993: I Can See Clearly ( UK # 23)
  • 09.1993: Strike Me Pink ( UK # 46)
  • The Wind In The Willows (1968 )
  • Blondie (1976 )
  • Plastic Letters (1978 )
  • Parallel Lines (1978 )
  • Eat To The Beat (1979 )
  • American Car (1980 )
  • The Hunter (1982 )
  • No Exit (1999)
  • The Curse Of Blondie (2003)
  • Panic Of Girls (2011)
  • Individually Twisted (1997)

Filmography (selection)

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