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Deborah Harry, 1986 - As the face and voice behind Blondie, one of New Wave’s most influential bands to emerge during the punk heyday of the 1970s, Debbie Harry is best known for her hypnotically wild stage moves, edgy cool voice, and two-tone bottle-blond hair. Born in 1945 in Miami, Florida, she was adopted at three months and raised by the Harry family in Hawthorne, New Jersey. In 1965, she moved to New York City where she worked as a Playboy Bunny and a waitress at Max’s Kansas City, a famous Warhol-inhabited nightspot. In 1974, she and long-time boyfriend, Chris Stein, started the band “Angel and the Snakes,” later changing it to “Blondie,” a phrase coined from the truck drivers that would yell out “Hey Blondie!” as Harry walked by. Daring to go where very few female singers had gone before, Debbie Harry became a model for strong front-women in the male dominated world of Rock and Roll. Blondie spent eight years winning the world over with their infectious post-punk sound. "Heart of Glass," the reggae-tinged "The Tide Is High," and "Call Me" were major chart-toppers in America. When Francesco Scavullo shot this photo, Harry had just released her third solo album. Scavullo described her as “a miracle of a person, very free, doesn’t care about angles, just moves and always looks great.” To date, Blondie has reunited and are still touring all over the world.
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