Early Life
Singer Debbie Harry was actually born as Angela Trimble in the year 1945 in Miami, Florida. She was adopted at the age of three months by Richard and Catherine Harry who owned a gift shop in New Jersey and changed her name to Deborah Harry.
She was born in California and brought up in Hawthorne New Jersey where she did her high school education at Hawthorne High School. She continued her studies and after graduation she attended the Centenary College in Hackettstown where she completed an Associate of Arts course in 1965.
Harry then relocated to New York City and for one year took a job at the secretary at the BBC Radio office. She also worked in other unrelated jobs as a waitress, a go-go dancer and as a Playboy Bunny.
Debbie Harry net worth?
Debbie Harry is an American singer-songwriter and an actress and her net worth is estimated to be $30 million. Debbie Harry is famous as a vocalist of the new wave rock band known as Blondie, which the singer formed in 1974 together with several like-minded musicians.
With the band, she has recorded from 1979 to 2017, peaking at number one both in the United States and the United Kingdom. Their hit songs included Heart of Glass, the Tide is High, as well as Rapture A song worth discussing is Rapture, in which Debbie actually raps. As hard as this can be to fathom, this is actually seen as the first-time rap was manifested.
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Harry started dating Chris Stein of the New York punk rock band when he joined her early band the Stilettoes in the mid-70s. Before she met Harry, her boyfriend attempted to kill her in a jealous rage; while cohabiting with Harry.
She was raped at knife-point during a home invasion. Harry separated from Stein in 1989, though they remain on good terms; he is the godfather of the couple’s two daughters.
Debbie bought her main residence in June 2016 for $785, 000; the house is an 18th-century Colonial home situated in Roxbury, Connecticut on 26 acres of land. As of November 2023, she has put this home up for rent at $6000 a month.
Career
Harry embarked on a singing career under Tandyn Records a year later and his first album ‘KooKoo’ hit the markets in 1981, ‘KooKoo’ reached number 25 in the US, and number six in the UK, with Harry earning his first gold and silver records for this album.
The first promo track from the album was the song Backfired for which the music video was directed by the famous Swiss painter H. R. Giger, whose artwork of Harry’s disfigured face was used on the albums cover.
In 1982, Harry reunited with the members of Blondie for the recording of ‘The Hunter’, the album did not achieve the same level of success as the prior albums of the band. Apart from Blondie and her individual albums, Harry has featured in quite a number of films. She appeared in some art movies by Amos Poe and was unpaid in ‘Deadly Hero’ in 1975.
