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Chris Stein wife-American musician, Christopher Stein was born January 5, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York.
Stein was born to Estelle Stein and Ben Stein. He was expelled from Midwood High School in Brooklyn, where he had attended as a student while growing up, because of his long hair.
From 1978 to 1982, Stein co-hosted the public-access television cable program TV Party in New York City.
In addition, he wrote the soundtrack for the movie Union City, produced and sang on the soundtrack for the famous hip-hop movie Wild Style, and is a skilled photographer.
In 1973, Stein joined the Stilettos as their guitarist and started dating one of the singers, Debbie Harry.
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Stein, Harry, and the rhythm section of the band left in the summer of 1974 to form their own group, which they finally dubbed Blondie.
By the end of the decade, they had reached international success and had quickly established themselves as staples of the punk and new wave scene centered around CBGB and Max’s Kansas City.
Blondie split up in 1982, but they came back together in 1997 and have been active ever since. Stein co-wrote many popular songs with Harry, including “Heart of Glass,” “Dreaming,” “Island of Lost Souls,” “Rapture,” and “Rip Her to Shreds,” in addition to being the sole author of the Blondie song “Sunday Girl.” Between 1982 to 1984, Stein served as the label’s president as well.
Members of Blondie Debbie Harry and Chris Stein appeared in an episode of Songify the News with The Gregory Brothers in 2015, and they worked together once more to parody the 2016 US presidential debates.
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Stein captured images of the early punk music scene in New York City, the seductive looks of Blondie and Debbie Harry, and his interactions with artists like Andy Warhol and H.R. Giger.
The most recent publication of Stein’s photographs was in his book Chris Stein / Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk, which was released by Rizzoli in September 2014.
The exhibition at Somerset House in London to introduce the book Negative: Me, Blondie and the Advent of Punk simultaneously commemorated the band’s 40th anniversary of creation.
Some of the images from Negative were also used in the 1982 Elm Tree, London book Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie, co-authored by Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, and Victor Bockris. Da Capo, New York later published Making Tracks in a revised edition (1998).
A la recherche du punk perdu, a joint exhibition with Eddie Duggan at the University of Suffolk (April–May 2017), and an exhibition in a Blondie “pop-up” shop in London’s Camden Market, both of which were related to the 2017 Blondie performance at the Roundhouse, have also featured Stein’s photography.
Due to heart problems, Stein has not toured with Blondie since 2018, however he has continued to record with the band on subsequent albums like Blondie: Vivir en La Habana (2019) and a future Blondie record.
Chris Stein is married to Barbara Sicuranza. They got married in 1999 and they have two daughters together.
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
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