Deborah Harry Biography

Fast Facts

• Adopted when she was three months old
• Worked as a Playboy bunny and as a waitress prior to her Blondie breakthrough
• Released her first album in 1968 with a folk-rock group called Wind in the Willows
• Founded Blondie with Chris Stein in 1974; the group released its eponymous debut two years later
• Part of the legendary mid-'70s punk-rock scene at the Manhattan club CBGBs; other future stars included the Ramones, Patti Smith and Talking Heads
• Sold more than 20 million copies of Parallel Lines, the classic 1978 Blondie album that featured the hit "Heart of Glass
• " Introduced the wider pop-rock audience to rap with the No
• 1 Blondie hit "Rapture" in 1981
• Released her solo debut, KooKoo, in 1981; it was produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards
• Suspended her career during the mid-'80s to care for boyfriend/Blondie bandmate Chris Stein, who was felled by pemphigus, a rare, potentially fatal disease
• Inducted with Blondie into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006