Amy Winehouse was a difficult child. She was expelled from both regular and theater school.
The reason was rude behavior, flamboyant appearance, singing in class, academic failure and - drugs. Amy wasn't worried. She planned to become a singer, and if it didn’t work out, a waitress. Together with her friend, she came up with the duet Sweet "n" Source, the girls came up with songs in the style of r "n" b.
The only one in the family who understood Amy Winehouse was her grandmother. She took her granddaughter for the first time in her life to a tattoo parlor, drank beer with her on the porch of the house and listened to her songs.
The beginning of Amy Winehouse's career began with her acquaintance with singer Tyler James - thanks to him, she signed a contract with the EMI studio, and already in 2003 her first album Frank was released, named after the favorite performer of the singer's father Frank Sinatra. However, the singer herself was dissatisfied with her work, despite the fact that the public received the disc very positively. Amy Winehouse became a discovery in the world of music and quickly gained fans among both critics and ordinary listeners.
Talent and habits of Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse successfully climbed the career ladder of show business, but quickly fell down the ladder of drug addiction and alcoholism. In parallel with her performances and recording songs, the talented Winehouse disappeared in hospitals, being treated for drug and alcohol addiction.
In August 2007, she canceled all of her performances due to health reasons. Together with her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, she entered a rehabilitation clinic, from which she escaped five days later. The girl's parents believed that the reason for her lifestyle was her husband, a musician and a slacker. At the same time, Fielder's relatives suggested that her fans arrange boycotts until the couple broke up.
Amy Winehouse's concerts, which rapidly gained popularity, were expected all over the world. However, her lifestyle prevented her from developing creatively. US consulate denied Amy Winehouse in visiting the country when the singer was invited to the ceremony Grammys. Amy Winehouse was one of the nominees for the award and eventually won. Amy has won five of the six nominations in which she was presented.
Record of the Year - Amy Winehouse, Rehab
Song of the Year - Amy Winehouse, Rehab
Best New Artist - Amy Winehouse
Best Female Pop Performance - Amy Winehouse, Rehab
Best Pop Album - Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
Amy Winehouse in 2009 was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having won the most Grammy awards among British performers.
During that fateful Grammy ceremony in Amy Winehouse's biography, Amy expressed her dissatisfaction with the help of a television broadcast, without refuting her alcoholism and passion for drugs. Immediately after that, she decided on another course of rehabilitation at the villa of the famous singer Bryan Adams. And this did not help her, and after a short time she ended up in a clinic, where she was diagnosed with emphysema.
Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil: A Dangerous Relationship
Amy met her future husband Blake Fielder-Civil in one of the English pubs, after two years of romance, the couple got married, but their family did not last long.
In 2008, Amy Winehouse's husband was sentenced to 27 months in prison for assaulting a pub owner in Hoxton. In prison, Blake Fielder began divorce proceedings. After serving a term in prison, Blake, having been released, began to demand six million dollars from his ex-wife, believing that part of her fortune belongs to him. After a short showdown, the couple again began to appear together at parties, but after a while they fled completely.
Amy Winehouse scandals
Another high-profile scandal involving Amy Winehouse was the cancellation of her concerts in Istanbul and Athens in the summer of 2011. After her first June concert in Belgrade, the organizers were forced to cancel all her next performances. The fact is that the singer, having stepped on the stage, behaved unnaturally and even inadequately. She first greeted Athens and then the New York audience. When Amy Winehouse began to walk around the stage, she was barely on her feet, staggering and constantly stumbling, trying to communicate with her musicians. During the performance of the song, she got confused in the words and partially forgot the text. As a result, the twenty-thousandth audience booed the singer. According to some reports, such a "concert" lasted one hour and eleven minutes, at which Amy never sang. At some point, the singer even fell on the stage and immediately ran backstage, but returned 10 minutes later. Fans of the singer noted that the behavior of Amy Winehouse was caused not by alcohol, but by drug intoxication.Literally in May, a month before the start of the tour, Amy Winehouse was in a London clinic offering programs for the treatment of alcohol and drug addiction and the provision of psychological assistance.
Shortly before this, Amy Winehouse was dumped by her new boyfriend, Reg Traviss. Winehouse proposed marriage to Reg, but he refused such an offer. He decided to end the relationship with the singer after he realized that he could not help her return to normal life. After such a loss, the singer ceased to completely control herself.
Goodbye Amy
On July 23, Amy was found dead in her London flat. Amy's mother admitted that the day before her daughter's death, she met with her, and even then she looked as if she was "from another world." However, the mother still cannot comprehend the loss of her 27-year-old daughter.
A few hours after death of Amy Winehouse music fans have already brought the talented singer to the infamous "Club 27", which includes blues and rock musicians who passed away at the age of 27: Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplig, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Brian Jones.
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MOSCOW, September 14 - RIA Novosti. Soul singer Amy Winehouse would have turned 33 on September 14. The image, brought to the grotesque, and scandalous stories, this is what the public remembered in the first place. It seems that even music, honest and talented, has faded into the background, although it was she who remained the main thing for Amy in life. RIA Novosti remembered how the singer's career began.
Amy was born in London. Her ancestors emigrated from the Russian Empire. My father worked as a taxi driver, my mother worked as a pharmacist. The singer recalled that instead of lullabies, her father sang Frank Sinatra songs to her. By the way, he also began his musical career - at the age of 60, after the death of his daughter.
Amy created a musical group at the age of 10 - it was a rap duo. At 14, she wrote her first songs and sang in a jazz band, and a year later she signed a contract with the largest record company in the world, EMI. Radiohead, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Depeche Mode, Queen and other giants recorded on this label.
At the age of 20, Amy released her debut album, Frank. He went platinum, turning a girl from a simple family into one of the most popular singers in the UK. All the songs Amy wrote herself - this is her experience, pain and emotions. In an interview with The Huffington Post, she said that she was not particularly interested in fame: "I'm not Amy the star, I'm Amy, the girl with the guitar."
"I've never listened to Frank from start to finish. Never. Some songs I can't listen to because they're so personal it hurts to hear them."
In 2005, two years after the release of her debut album, Amy met her future husband. This event became a starting point for her. Blake Fielder-Civil was a small-time dealer and drug addict. He hooked the singer on heroin. A year later, Amy released her second and last lifetime album, Back to Black. All songs on it are dedicated to Fielder-Sibyl and their relationship.
When recording Back to Black, Amy was inspired by female pop groups of the 1960s. The album earned the singer six Grammy nominations. It was certified 5x platinum in the UK. The whole world was open before the singer.
In 2007, Amy married Blake. They signed without warning the families and celebrated the event at McDonald's. The singer's father hated his daughter's newly-made husband, blaming him for all misfortunes. A few months after the wedding, Amy and Blake ended up in a rehab clinic, but escaped five days later.
Blake was imprisoned in 2008 for assaulting a pub owner. In prison, he filed for divorce. Fielder-Civil demanded £6 million from Amy "for inspiration" on the album.
After the divorce, Amy finally lost control of herself. Drugs, alcohol, parties - and no music. In 2011, she canceled her own concert in Belgrade. The singer forgot the words of the songs and could hardly stand on her feet.
Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil was very attached to his wife, and her death was a huge loss for him, although he could not even attend her funeral.
The Dark Side of Amy Winehouse's Personal Life
The singer met Blake, the assistant clipmaker, in one of the English pubs, a stormy romance began between them, which lasted two years, during which they either converged or diverged, and Amy experienced every quarrel very hard, and it was during those periods that she created the most their dark songs.
Pictured: Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil
When they got married, Whitehouse was infinitely happy, because now she could always be with her husband. Amy's parents were categorically against this choice of their daughter, because her future husband was a drug addict and alcoholic with many years of experience, but Amy did not listen to them and took a step that became fatal in her biography. Their family lasted two years, during which they endlessly scandalized, and most of the conflicts were related to drugs and alcohol. Amy Winehouse's husband hooked her on drugs, and Blake himself admitted more than once that for the first time she tried amphetamines, crack and heroin with his filing. Fielder-Civil filed for divorce himself, because he knew that they would no longer be able to live a normal life, but he was going to reunite with her as soon as they managed to recover from dangerous addictions.
However, to the delight of the singer's parents, this did not happen. The second husband of Amy Winehouse almost became Reg Travis, with whom she had a serious affair, Blake got married, but despite this, until her death, she periodically called him, sent SMS, which she always signed only "your wife". When Fielder-Civil went to prison - he received three years for burglary, however, he was released a year later, during which time his wife Sarah Aspin gave birth to a boy, and Amy sent Blake a text message saying that she wants to be godmother to his newborn son. However, since prisoners are not supposed to carry mobile phones, Fielder-Civil read this message after Winehouse died, and it touched him so much that he almost committed suicide himself.
He later admitted that after the divorce, he missed his ex-wife very much and always dreamed of returning to her. Blake blamed the singer's father for the fact that they broke up, who, according to him, always persuaded his daughter to divorce him, saying that her husband only needed her money from her. They remained close even after the divorce, and the last time Fielder-Civil saw Amy was a week before her death.
Amy Winehouse's husband after her death
Blake was very upset by the departure of his ex-wife, whose father categorically forbade him to attend her funeral, so the first thing he did immediately after leaving prison was to visit her grave, and shortly after that he was hospitalized in a drug coma - neither prison, nor the birth of a son forced him to give up addictions. Addictions brought the singer herself to the grave, as the doctors later established, Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning, with which she apparently wanted to get rid of protracted depression, one of the reasons for which was a divorce from Blake and loneliness.
Pictured with Reg Traviss
Drugs and alcohol interfered not only with the singer's personal life, but also with her creative activity - during her tour in Belgrade, she even had to cancel the concert, and then turn off the entire European tour, because she was almost constantly drunk. Despite the fact that the singer's father was always opposed to Blake, when he found out that he was in serious condition, he called on everyone to pray for his recovery.
Amy Winehouse novels
But in the personal life of the singer was not only her unlucky husband, but also other men with whom she was happy. One of her first boyfriends was music manager George Roberts, whom she was terribly jealous of. She had a strong feeling for him, and met him when Amy Winehouse's husband was in prison - together they spent their holidays in the Caribbean. In addition to him, at that time, Winehouse had fun with another man - backing vocalist Tyler James, who repeatedly helped the singer when she found herself in a difficult situation, accompanied her to medical centers.
In the photo - the singer with Tyler James
A short-term affair happened to Amy and musician Alex Clair, who, after she returned to her husband, told reporters what Winehouse was like in sex. In 2008, she dated Pete Doherty, and it was not her best choice, because he was also a drug addict. For a whole year she had an affair with actor Josh Bowman.
Pictured with Peter Doherty
Amy Winehouse's failed husband
With director Reg Traviss, the singer had every chance to create the family she had long dreamed of. Reg proposed to her, and she accepted it, but Traviss' ex-lover, a certain dancer, did everything possible to prevent this marriage from taking place.
Pictured: Amy and Reg Traviss
She created provocative situations in order to instill doubts in Amy's soul and make her jealous, and she achieved her goal - this wedding never took place. If this happened, and Amy got married again, it is quite possible that the singer's fate would have been completely different, and she would not have passed away at twenty-seven.
The girl also decided to take revenge on this school - she disabled the fire safety system and howled in delight in unison with the siren, watching the commotion. Amy was the most promising student of Sylvia Young, but the headmistress nevertheless expelled her, finally warning that the girl would end badly. Well, she guessed...
This damn Blake, having learned about Amy's school adventures, kept repeating everywhere that she was a match for him, his soulmate, - the same "bad girl" as he himself was a "bad boy."
Only she's a Billie Holiday star, and who are you, dude? - many reporters were infuriated by the impudence of Fielder-Civil.
Yes, at first Amy was great.
A year before the ill-fated meeting with Blake, she released her first album "Frank", which was wildly successful, immediately went platinum, making the daughter of a London taxi driver one of the most popular singers in the UK. After the school of Sylvia Young, Amy did not want to study anywhere else; she just listened to the discs of her favorite singers - Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Minnie Riperton, listened and imitated. She willingly sang in pubs as an opening act for jazz orchestras, until producer Salaam Remy heard her and recorded her first album with her. To be honest, at first Mitchell was very afraid for his daughter's career because of her too long tongue: Amy threw out everything she thought, without any discounts on political correctness - she could tell the studio bosses that they smelled of naphthalene and that they had a bear in their ear; plagued the unfortunate producer with endless nit-picking.
At the age of 18, Amy moved out from her mother and rented an apartment with a friend. Their morning started with Jack Daniel's and a joint of marijuana Photo: Splash News/All Over Press“When I was recording the first album, the producer told me: “Oh, Amy, you have to be honest, absolutely honest, otherwise the listener will not believe you.” The album is out, now he says to me: “Shut your fucking mouth, Amy, and smile at the photographers!”
Of course, Mitchell was a little scared that at the age of 18, her daughter moved out from her mother, rented an apartment from Juliette and led a completely wild life. I remember once he came to the girls in the morning and was shocked that his daughter had a Coke and Jack Daniel’s cocktail for breakfast and smoked a joint of marijuana. "All musicians live like this, dad," Amy explained, and he thought to himself: "Yes, damn it, here it is, the underside of the bohemian world, it must be really inevitable."
Idiot. He was just a blind, naive idiot!
After the success of Frank, the producers demanded a new album from Amy, she was angry in response:
Where can I get new songs? Suck it out of your finger? There is none of them! I'm not in love, and I have nothing to write about! Do you want me to write about how I promote my first album?!
Mitchell knew that "Frank" was written after Amy broke up with Chris, her first love, who was much older than her. Mitchell then still thought: apparently, while the hurricane romance with Blake lasts and Amy is happy, no creative revelations can be expected from her, but then ... ... - Dad, he left me!
He says that I am unbearable, that I ... - Sobs were heard in the handset of the mobile phone.
God, what a child Amy is! He took his daughter to Essex, to nature - to walk, to relax - and listened to her complaints for three days. Blake complains that she is too noisy. Say, in the company everyone looks only at her, but no one notices him, says that he does not want to become Mr. Winehouse, that he will return to her if she stops singing - but she cannot! Mitchell could hardly contain himself: you damned moron! Does he want to ruin a girl's career?
Amy, - my father suggested insinuatingly, - and you try to translate your feelings into songs, you will immediately feel better.
Amy herself did not expect this: as soon as she was left alone, new songs poured out of her by themselves, completely freely.
