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Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Blondie. Four of its singles—"Heart of Glass", "Call Me", "The Tide Is High", and ""Rapture"—reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1979 and 1981. Other defining Blondie hits include "Rip Her to Shreds", "Sunday Girl", "One Way or Another", "Dreaming", "Atomic", and "Maria".
Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After college, Harry worked various jobs—as a go-go dancer, a waitress, a Playboy Bunny, and a secretary (including at BBC Radio's office)—before her breakthrough in the music industry. In 1974, Harry co-founded the rock band Blondie with guitarist Chris Stein in New York City. The band released its eponymous debut studio album in 1976, and released three more studio albums between then and 1979 including Parallel Lines (1978), which reached number six on the Billboard 200. Blondie's fifth studio album, Autoamerican (1980), reached number seven on the Billboard 200 and spawned the hit single "Rapture", which is recognized as the first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 to feature rap vocals.
In 1981, Harry released her debut solo studio album, KooKoo, which spawned her debut solo single "Backfired". She subsequently embarked on a Hollywood career, starring in the neo-noir film Union City (1980) and in David Cronenberg's science fiction body horror film Videodrome (1983). Blondie's sixth studio album, The Hunter (1982), was a concept album and spawned the single "Island of Lost Souls". In 1986, Harry released her second solo studio album, Rockbird. She starred in John Waters' musical comedy film Hairspray (1988), and released two more solo studio albums between then and 1993, before returning to film with roles in a John Carpenter-directed segment of the horror comedy anthology Body Bags (1993) and in James Mangold's drama Heavy (1995).
In the late 1990s, Blondie reunited and released its seventh studio album, No Exit (1999), followed by The Curse of Blondie (2003). Harry continued to star in independent films throughout the 2000s, including the crime dramas Deuces Wild and Spun (both 2002), the drama My Life Without Me (2003), and the romantic drama Elegy (2008). Harry released her fifth solo studio album, Necessary Evil (2007), which is her last solo studio album to date. Blondie released its ninth studio album, Panic of Girls (2011), followed by Ghosts of Download (2014). Blondie's eleventh studio album, Pollinator (2017), reached number four on the UK Albums Chart. In 2019, Harry released her memoir, Face It: A Memoir, disclosing that she had been raped at knifepoint by an armed intruder during a burglary at her New York City home in the 1970s.