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Background. Destri is of Italian descent. His father was a novelist who also wrote screenplays and eventually advertising copy to support his family while his mother was a housewife. He has a sister, Donna Destri, who is also a singer and did backing vocals for Blondie and Jimmy's own solo record.
Interview with Jimmy Destri. by Katrina Fox for the Official Blondie Web Site. Sydney, Australia, August 2003. KF: How did you get into the music business? JD: I'm from a musical family. My uncle - my mother's youngest brother - was the drummer for a late 50s early 60s rock band called Joey Dee & the Starlighters who had a hit record in America.
Jul 25, 2006 · I'm still writing music, always will, I suppose, and I am enjoying immensely my new beautiful wife Robbie, my children, and the simple life for now. Meanwhile, you should hear my interpretative rendition of "Go, Diego, Go" I play for our baby girl, it's got real panache.
Destri now lives in Windsor Terrace with his wife Roberta, son James, and daughter Rienna and works full time as a drug counselor/therapist at the outpatient recovery center Carnegie Hill Institute in New York City.
- April 13, 1954
Sep 19, 2020 · One inevitable truth of life: many bands split. Whether it's from fighting between members, drug or alcohol abuse, or the ever-popular "artistic differences," bands come, and go, and sometimes come back again. But New Wave legend Blondie didn't split up in 1982 for any typical reason.
His father was a novelist who also wrote screenplays and eventually advertising copy to support his family while his mother was a housewife. He has a sister, Donna Destri, who is also a singer and did backing vocals for Blondie and Jimmy's own solo record.
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I have two kids and I've got a wife and I'm very happy now. My daughter is going on a scholarship in Journalism while my son will probably be like me. As everytime he sees an instrument, he's got to stop and try and play it as he's like really into it.
