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}} Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry (born July 1, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known as the lead singer of the new wave and punk rock band Blondie. She recorded several worldwide number one singles with Blondie during the 1970s and 1980s. She is sometimes considered the first rapper to chart at number one in the United States due to her work on "Rapture". She has also had success (mainly in Europe) as a solo artist before reforming Blondie in the late 1990s. Her acting career spans over thirty film roles and numerous television appearances. ==Personal life and career beginnings== Harry was born Angela Tremble in Miami, Florida, and adopted at three months by Catherine (Peters) and Richard Smith Harry, gift shop proprietors in Hawthorne, New Jersey.〔(Deborah Harry Biography (1945-) ) Film Reference〕 She attended Hawthorne High School, where she graduated in 1963.〔Rohan, Virginia. Harry also graduated from Centenary College. ("North Jersey-bred and talented too" ), ''The Record (Bergen County)'', June 18, 2007. Accessed June 25, 2007. "Debbie Harry: Class of 1963, Hawthorne High School"〕 She graduated from Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, with an Associate of Arts degree in 1965.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Centenary College Honors Deborah Harry as a Distinguished Alumna )〕 Before starting her singing career she moved to New York City in the late 1960s and worked as a secretary at BBC Radio's office there for one year. Later, she was a waitress at Max's Kansas City,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Punk The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Blondie & New York Dolls / Max’s Kansas City )〕 a go-go dancer in a Union City, New Jersey, discothèque, and a Playboy Bunny.〔(How Times Have Changed, Ex-Playboy Bunnies Say ). Scott Simon. June 5, 2010. WBUR, National Public Radio. NPR story on Playboy Clubs. "Actress Lauren Hutton was a Bunny, as was singer Deborah Harry."〕 In the late 1960s, Deborah Harry began her musical career as a backing singer for the folk rock group, The Wind in the Willows,〔(Discogs - ''The Wind in the Willows'' - (discography) )〕 which released one self-titled album in 1968 on Capitol Records.〔The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll c1983, page 48.〕 The group also recorded a second album, which was never released and the studio tapes remain lost. In 1974, Harry joined The Stilettoes with Elda Gentile and Amanda Jones. Her eventual boyfriend and Blondie guitarist, Chris Stein, joined the band shortly after.〔Stevie Chick, ''Psychic Confusion: The Sonic Youth Story'' (Omnibus Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-85712-054-0〕 After leaving The Stilettoes, Harry and Stein formed Angel and the Snake with Tish and Snooky Bellomo. Shortly thereafter, Harry and Stein formed Blondie, naming it after the term of address men often called her when she bleached her hair blonde. Blondie quickly became regulars at Max's Kansas City and CBGB in New York City.〔 After a debut album in 1976, commercial success followed in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, first in Australia and Europe, then in the United States. In 1989 and 2010 interviews, Harry claimed that she had been lured into a car driven by serial killer Ted Bundy while in New York City during the early 1970s, but said that she luckily escaped. While Harry has claimed to identify the driver as Bundy from TV news reports, the fact-checking website Snopes.com says the driver was probably not Bundy because there is no known record that Bundy was in New York at that time. Snopes.com noted that Ann Rule, an author of a book on Bundy, says false claims of Bundy abductions are not uncommon. While leading Blondie, Harry and Stein became life as well as musical partners, though they never married. Harry has no children. In the mid-1980s, she took a few years off to care for Stein while he suffered with pemphigus, a rare autoimmune disease that affects the skin and mucous membranes. Stein and Harry broke up in the 1980s, but continued to work together. In 1999, Harry was deemed the 12th greatest woman of rock and roll by ''VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll''〔1999, (VH1: 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll )〕 and in 2002, she was called the 18th sexiest artist of all time by VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.〔2002, (VH1: 100 Sexiest Artists )〕 In a 2014 interview, Harry confirmed the rumors about having affairs with women. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Debbie Harry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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