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Debbie Harry performing in Toronto in October 1977
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| Birth name | Angela Tremble | ||
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July 1, 1945 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
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| Origin | Hawthorne, New Jersey, U.S | ||
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| Instruments | Vocals | ||
| Years active | 1964–present | ||
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Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Tremble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and actress best known as the lead singer of the new wave band Blondie. Her recordings with the band reached the number one position in the United States and the United Kingdom on multiple occasions from 1978 to 1981. She is considered the first rapper to chart at number one in the U.S. owing to her work on "Rapture". Harry achieved success (mainly in Europe) as a solo artist before reforming Blondie in the late 1990s. Her acting career includes over 60 film roles and numerous television appearances.
Harry was born on July 1, 1945 in Miami, Florida. Initially named Angela Tremble, she was adopted at three months of age by Richard Smith Harry and Catherine (née Peters), gift shop proprietors in Hawthorne, New Jersey and renamed Deborah Ann Harry. Harry learned of her adoption at four years old and later, in the late 1980s, she tracked down her birth mother, who refused to have any contact with her. Harry attended Hawthorne High School, from which she graduated in 1963. She graduated from Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, with an Associate of Arts degree in 1965. Before starting her singing career, she moved to New York City in the late 1960s and worked there as a secretary at BBC Radio's office for one year. Later, she was a waitress at Max's Kansas City, a go-go dancer in a Union City, New Jersey discothèque, and a Playboy Bunny.
In the late 1960s, Harry began her musical career as a backing singer for the folk rock group The Wind in the Willows, which released one self-titled album in 1968 on Capitol Records. The group also recorded a second album; it was never released and the studio tapes remain lost.
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