Debbie Harry
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry 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 successas a solo artist before reforming Blondie in the late 1990s. Her acting career spans...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth1 July 1945
CountryUnited States of America
Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.
I guess people assume I have some sort of totally magical life, but I'm a working musician, fortunately. I've worked on my craft, and I'm very fortunate I've been able to survive in a very competitive industry and enjoy my success. It's not easy.
A lot of the bands were really, really different and a lot of them actually didn't become huge but I think were hugely influential.
I'm very proud of the fact that I was in two really interesting movies in the last year: one was Spun and the other was My Life Without Me.
Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.