Debbie Harry Biography

From the girl from the hinterland to the punk icon and the new wave: the seven stages of Debbie Harry’s stages, the girl from the outback of Debbie Harry was born in sunny Florida, but lived there only a couple of months. Already in childhood, Debbie demonstrated musical talents. She sang in the church choir, regularly participated in school productions. A peculiar debut in her career is often called a solo party in the play based on the fairy tale “S-firing boy”, which Debbie performed in the sixth grade.

A strong and bright voice and magnificent hearing of Debbie were early noticed, and she herself from childhood connected her life with music. As a teenager, she wanted to escape from a measured life in the suburbs and dreamed of becoming a scene star. And I just wanted to live. I was an artist. I was constantly in search of a better fate that would completely arrange me.

I was interested in acting, art, music. I swallowed everything that I came across, and tried to digest to use in the future. I think I tried good and achieved my goal - to become an artist, ”Debbi recalled later. It is not surprising that, barely graduating from college, she went to New York-to fulfill her dream. The bunny of the "playboy" in the bohemian and artistic capital of America young Debbie, of course, no one expected.

She began her path to the musical scene from the work of the waitress. For some time she worked as a secretary in the New York office of the Air Force. Then she became a dancer and even one of the numerous binings of the magazine "Playboy". In general, she spun as best she could. At the same time, she continued to look for herself in different directions. For example, she entered the school of visual arts and for some time was going to become a photographer.

By the end of X, the situation began to change. Debbie gradually groped for her own path and got into the folk band Wind in the Willows, where she became a backing vocalist. The team recorded two albums truth, the second was never released, but did not achieve success. Today, the group is known primarily by the fact that Debbie Harry once sang in it. Soon they left the group together and created Blondie - one of the main American groups of the new wave.

Blondie Blondie appeared in the year. Debbie Harry and Chris Stein not only founded a joint musical project, but also lived together for many years. They were the core of the group, while other participants changed from time to time. All the main hits were also written by Debbie and Chris. The first years of the existence of Blondie remained an underground group. They played in small New York clubs and wrote their first album, gradually gaining popularity.

In the year, the group released the debut album - “Blondie”, and two years later three records at once - “Plastic letters” and “Parallel Lines”. The first noticeable success of Blonde achieved in Australia, when in the year their single “In the Flesh” sounded on the air of the musical TV show Countdown. The song reached the second place in the Australian chart, and the Blondie album entered the twenty of the best in the year.

Debbie Harry was awarded the Grammy Award as the best rock vocalist. The singles "Heart of Glass" led all the main musical charts of the world. Blondie became the stars of the world. In just a couple of years, they have gone from the semi -foot to world glory, and became one of the brightest symbols of the punk and the new wave. Punk icon was the main person in the group, of course, Debbie.

Firstly, it gave a name. Blonde is exactly about her. The drivers of trucks passing by constantly shouted a beautiful blonde - “Hey Blondi” - and then the musicians decided to call their group. Blondie exposed a stereotype about blondes, presenting to their listeners not a sex bomb a la Marilyn Monroe, but a singer with a powerful deep voice in Khaki color and playing a hard minimalist music.

Blondie aggressive sexuality is contrary to the image of a beautiful doll. She does not want to just like it, does not want to be “pretty”, she sings what she thinks and dares to be herself. They think that we look alapo. This color helped me to carry out a real internal coup. I love the very idea of ​​dangerous innocence, ”Debbie explained her image. However, the vivid image of the vocalist involuntarily pulled all the attention of fans on her.

In one of the tours, the team was forced to go with the slogan “Blonde” - this is a group, ”since too many already perceived Debbie as a solo singer, and not as part of the band. The opinion that blonde is the surname Debbie also spread. She became a real punk icon, one of the most popular women in the history of rock music. She became the face of the group and the new wave as a whole.

Solo but Debbie itself was always crowded in the framework of one group and one role. Over time, she began to act in films, and in the year she released her first solo album. By that time, Blondie sounded everywhere, they became a supergroup, experimented a lot and reached the disco.

In the year, the group released the album of The Hunter relatively failing from the point of view of commerce and soon broke up.Debbie had already been a superstar by that time, so she calmly continued to do what she did - she focused on the solo career of the singer and actress. Over the next 15 years, Debbie released three more solo albums and starred in several dozen films.

In the year, Blondie reunited and resumed tour and recording new records. However, Debbie did not stop her solo career. Actress Acting Hypostasis is a separate topic in the life of Debbie. She played the first role in the year when Blondie was only gaining height. And all subsequent years continued to act, clearly finding in this pleasure, although not claiming the role of the great actress.

In total, Debbie filmography has more than 50 paintings. True, she received the only significant film union for her music. In the year, the song “Call Me”, which included in the Melodrama “American Zhigalo”, was awarded the Golden Globe Prize. The charity of Debbie Harry still writes down songs and performs - both solo and with his group, and also periodically takes part in third -party musical projects.

However, in recent decades, she has been living in the status of rock legend, so she tries to use her popularity for the good not only to herself, but also to others. Inspired by the example of Elton John, Debbie supports numerous charitable centers and medical organizations. In particular, those who help patients with AIDS. For example, Debbie was the face of the Viva Glam cosmetics advertising campaign, all the funds from the sale of which went to the AIDS combat fund.

In addition, Debby tries to attract attention to social problems. In the year, together with the artist Marina Abramovich, the dog took part in a bright performance, whose purpose was to draw attention to the problem of violence against women. During the performance of Debbie, they carried it on stage on a stretcher, and she, apparently depicting a corpse, performed her hit “Heart of Glass”.

After that, Harry took a huge knife and cut out her heart from a huge cake, which was made in the form of her corpse. Debbie also regularly takes part in charitable concerts, the funds from which they go to fight cancer and other serious diseases.