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Debbie Harry

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Debbie Harry (born July 1, 1945) is a Miami-born American rock and roll musician who originally gained fame as the frontwoman for New Wave band Blondie, which originally gained fame in the 1970s and 80s. She was a regular at CBGB's, a famous New York City club that was an early epicenter for punk rock. Although Blondie could rock as hard as any of the punk rock bands of that era, it became the epitome of the New Wave style, and Debbie Harry, with her two-tone bottle-blonde hair became its best known icon.

Among her notable vocals was the rap on Rapture, the first white rap song, and Heart of Glass, a New-Wave/Disco crossover.

In 1981 (see 1981 in music), Harry began a solo career, but then entered a temporary retirement (1983-1985) to nurse Blondie's guitarist, Chris Stein, back to health. She succeeded and returned as a musician and actress.

She's since released solo albums, performed with the avant-garge jazz group the Jazz Passengers, and releasing two new albums with Blondie - No Exit (1999) and The Curse Of Blondie (2004).

In the late sixties she appeared with a folk-rock group, The Wind in the Willows.

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