Deborah Ann “Debbie” Harry was born on the 1st July 1945 and adopted when she was three months old by Catherine and Richard Smith Harry, gift shop proprietors from Hawthorne, New Jersey. She attended Hawthorne High School, where she graduated in 1963. Prior to starting her singing career she moved to New York in the late 1960s and worked as a secretary at BBC Radio’s New York office for one year.
Debbie Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, most famous for being the lead singer for the punk rock/New Wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of the group “The Jazz Passengers”.
She began her musical career with a folk rock group, The Wind in the Willows. Harry then joined a girl-group trio, The Stilettos, in the early 1970s. The Stilettos’ backup band included her eventual boyfriend and Blondie guitarist, Chris Stein. Harry and Stein formed the band Blondie in the mid-1970s, naming it for the wolf whistle men often gave to Harry from passing cars.
Blondie are currently on tour with Pat Benatar for the “Call Me Invincible” tour.
