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The charismatic British singer Amy Winehouse has everything to become a real star: a gorgeous voice, good acting skills, and composer talent. But when you closely get acquainted with her work and biography, you understand that not everything is so simple. Amy constantly turns out to be not the same as the laws of the genre require. An Englishwoman of Jewish blood, she sings like an African American. It looks very sexy, but it does not beat it in any way. She is in her early 20s but has the vocals of a mature woman. She feels the music so subtly - and so defiantly rude in communication. She writes tender melodies and harsh, obscene lyrics. And, perhaps, the strangest thing: she is not interested in fame or money. "For me, the music has always been in the first place. I would agree to live in a dirty hole if they promised me that I would meet Ray Charles," says Amy Winehouse, the new scandalous British sensation, awarded as a composer for the first single, one one of the most promising young artists, according to Rolling Stone magazine. Carrying the title of "the new Billie Holiday" without any reverence, she assures that in ten years she will forget about the stage, and will go headlong into caring for her husband and her seven children.
Amy Jade Winehouse was born in London on September 14, 1983 to a Jewish-English family. Her father was a taxi driver and her mother a pharmacist. Although they had nothing to do with music, among Amy's relatives, especially on her mother's side, there were many professional jazz musicians, and her paternal grandmother liked to recall a youthful affair with British jazz legend Ronnie Scott. Parents also contributed to the education of her musical tastes, collecting records of Dinah Washington (Dinah Washington), Ella Fitzgerald (Ella Fitzgerald), Frank Sinatra (Frank Sinatra) and other great artists.
The pop music period (Madonna, Kylie Minogue, etc.) ended for Amy at the age of ten, when she discovered Salt "n" Pepa, TLC и другие бунтарские хип-хоп и R&B-группы. В 11 лет гиперактивная Эми уже стояла во главе собственной рэп-команды, которую назвала Sweet "n" Sour и описывала как еврейский вариант Salt"n"Pepa. В 12 лет юное дарование поступило в театральную школу Сильвии Янг (Sylvia Young Theatre School), но через год ее исключили - по причине того, что она, мол, "не проявила себя". С 13 лет Amy Winehouse играла на гитаре и стремительно расширяла свой музыкальный кругозор, слушая самую разную музыку, в основном современный джаз и хип-хоп, а вскоре начала сочинять и записывать собственные песни. !}
Big show business opened Amy Winehouse in 2000, when she was only 16 years old. Through the efforts of her fellow pop singer Tyler James, her demos fell into the hands of Island/Universal managers who were looking for young jazz vocalists. She immediately signed a contract and began performing as a professional singer.
But before the appearance of the debut album was still far away. More than three years passed before at the end of 2003 Amy Winehouse presented her first studio disc "Frank", for which she wrote most of the material. As Felix Howard, Amy's main collaborator during the debut period, recalled, when he first heard her recordings, he was speechless. “It was like nothing else, I had never heard anything like it,” he admitted. “She managed to scare even the worldly jazz musicians. Very serious performers participated in the sessions. And when she started singing, they could only say:“ Lord Jesus!"
Most of all, colleagues were shocked by Amy's very frank texts, devoted mainly to her boyfriend, with whom she had recently broken up. But not only to him. For example, the track "Fuck Me Pumps" is a story about 20-year-old girls who hang around crappy clubs, dreaming of picking up a rich fiance. And in the song "What is it About Men?" Amy is trying to figure out the nature of her father and the reasons for his inconstancy in family life (at one time she was very worried about her parents' divorce).
The record was produced by keyboardist and hip-hop producer Sallam Remi. Jazz harmonies fused with elements of soul, pop music, rhythm and blues and hip-hop, sensual and ironic performance, great vocals, in which critics heard the resemblance to Nina Simone and Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Macy Gray, - all this immediately attracted the attention of the music industry to Amy Winehouse. Ordinary music lovers swayed longer. The sales curve crept up only after Winehouse's name was among the nominees for the Brit Awards and the Mercury Music Prize, and at the Ivor Novello Awards, the award for British composers, she won the award for the best contemporary song - for the first single "Stronger Than Me" , written by her together with Salaam Remi. In the summer of 2004, Amy Winehouse was lavishly applauded by audiences at Glastonbury, Jazzworld and V Festival. By this time, the album "Frank" managed to visit the top of the British charts and was awarded a platinum certificate.
In an interview of this period, Winehouse constantly emphasized that her debut album was only 80% her merit, because at the insistence of the label, some songs and mixes that she absolutely did not like were included on the disc. She was not completely satisfied with the arrangements either, so later, after the release of the second album, she admitted: “I can’t even listen to Frank now, yes, in general, I didn’t like him before. listened to it from beginning to end. I only like to play songs live, but it's not like listening to the studio version."
Amy Winehouse is quickly becoming one of the favorite characters in the tabloids. Of course, not her music, and even the non-provocative lyrics are to blame. Alcohol and drugs, scandalous antics during the tour, obscene jokes, inappropriate behavior, insulting fans - the journalists had something to profit from. The Independent assured readers that Amy was suffering from a manic-depressive illness but did not want to take medication. The artist herself admitted that she had problems with her appetite - "a little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia", called herself "more of a man than a woman, but not a lesbian", claimed that all her managers are idiots, marketing is no good, and the promotion of the debut album was terrible.
The more actively the artist played tricks in real life, the worse creative things went, that is, in fact, they didn’t go at all. Recording bosses waited a long time for new songs from Amy, until in the end they offered her to undergo treatment for alcoholism and take a job. Amy Winehouse categorically refused the rehabilitation clinic, and instead of being treated, she sat down to write songs. About why she so does not want to give herself into the hands of doctors, told her new composition "Rehab", the first signs on the eve of the next studio album. Amy always said that once she started writing, you couldn't stop her. I just had to be patient and wait for that moment. At this time, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Mark Ronson, known for his production work with Robbie Williams and Christina Aguilera, appeared in her life very opportunely. Amy cited him as the main inspiration for the second album.
Six months later, the record was ready, and in October 2006 the public got acquainted with the first promotional single "Rehab", which immediately catapulted to the British Top 10. The new long-play "Back to Black" released after that was received with a bang and by the beginning of 2007 topped the English charts. Even in the history of the American music industry, the record managed to "legitimize": in the US pop chart from the very first week it started at number seven - this was the second result of the British singer after Dido (Dido), whose album "Life For Rent" immediately conquered the 4th line of the American rating.
The second album, unlike the debut, permeated with jazz harmonies, returned to the era of the 50s and 60s, drawing inspiration from the then soul, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and the work of female pop groups, in particular the ensemble Shangri Las. Salaam Remy and Mark Ronson shared production duties. The tandem, or rather the Winehouse-Remy-Ronson trio, turned out to be extremely successful, both commercially and creatively. The singer received the Brit Award as the best solo artist, and the disc "Back to Black" was nominated for the title of best British album. At the end of 2006, the readers of Elle magazine named Winehouse the best artist in the UK.
A lot of time has passed since then, and our Amy only changes men and rehabs. We wish her well and look forward to her return. Everything will work out for her!
On July 23, 2011, the singer died suddenly.
The cause of death has not yet been officially announced.
Amy Winehouse discography
Lioness: Hidden Treasures (2011)
Back to Black (2007)
Frank (2003)
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I have a cat. His name is Amy.
I am a difficult person. If only because I, for the most part, don't give a shit.
I do not need someone's help. Because if I can't help myself, no one can help me.
Most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they will do in the next five or ten years. So: the time they spend in these reflections, I spend drinking.
At some point I'm too addicted to alcohol. After all, everything looks better with booze. Like: watching TV - a glass of wine, cooking dinner - a glass of champagne.
I only write about things that happened to me. About things that I can't just drown in the past. Thank God, I am prone to self-destruction, so I always have themes for songs.
I am not religious. Although I know that faith gives people strength. But I believe in fate and I believe that everything happens for a reason, for a reason. However, higher powers are not required for this.
Create music - it's like going to a dinner party: you have to take it step by step instead of lashing out at everything.
I'm not one of those who's trying to snatch their fifteen minutes of fame. I'm just a musician and I'm trying to be honest.
I agree that is talented. But - and this is absolutely true - I was not born to sing. I was born to be a wife and mother. And look after the family.
I don't judge casual sex. I understand that there is nothing good in the fact that I approve of treason. But I think it's like smoking marijuana - nothing serious. Oh shit, here I am!
There's no point say something other than the truth.
Sex - it's just sex. But don't let anyone get too close to you.
First I kissed at 11 or 12. It was a boy named Chris - Greek by birth - and he is now gay.
In the world there are a lot of straight men who look like little naughty sluts, and also a lot of gay men who, like, tell you “come on, I'll carry it” or “put on my jacket”. And you start thinking: "And why the hell do they like guys."
Don't hesitate. I hate myself when I say things like, "I'll never give myself boobs!" Fuck those words. After all, maybe I will have to do it - when I get old and all that.
If me put on too much makeup, I'll just end up looking like someone's aunt. And I want to be myself!
I'm not really a wrestler. But if you press me against the wall, I will break anyone's head.
I think, the ability to fight has nothing to do with how big you are. It depends on how much rage is concentrated in you.
Around there are a lot of evil people, and all because they have no friends. Communication with people - with mom, grandmother, dog - this is the best thing that happens to you in this life. Except shoes and bags, of course.
tattoos never too much.
Women they talk to each other the way men talk to men. But women always pay attention to details.
If the aliens and there is something like a sense of humor, most of all, perhaps, they should be amused by the way we have sex.
The biggest mistake what only parents can do is to conceive a child with bad music.
I can't even believe that really received all these awards.
Control madness is very easy.
The charismatic British singer Amy Winehouse has everything to become a real star: a gorgeous voice, good acting skills, and composer talent. But when you get closely acquainted with her work and biography, you understand that this girl is not as simple as it might seem. Amy constantly turns out to be not the same as the laws of the genre require. An Englishwoman of Jewish blood, she sings like an African American. It looks very sexy, but it does not beat it in any way. She is in her early 20s but has the vocals of a mature woman. She feels the music so subtly and so defiantly rude in communication. She writes tender melodies and harsh, obscene lyrics. And, perhaps, the strangest thing: she is not interested in fame or money. “For me, music has always come first. I would agree to live in a filthy hole if they promised me that I would meet Ray Charles, says Amy Winehouse, the new scandalous sensation of the UK, awarded as a composer for the first single, one of the most promising young artists, according to the magazine " Rolling Stone. Carrying the title of “new Billie Holiday” without any reverence, she assures that in ten years she will forget about the stage and will go headlong into caring for her husband and her seven children.
Amy Jade Winehouse was born in London on September 14, 1983 to a Jewish-English family. Her father was a taxi driver and her mother a pharmacist. Although they had nothing to do with music, among Amy's relatives, especially on her mother's side, there were many professional jazz musicians, and her paternal grandmother liked to recall a youthful affair with British jazz legend Ronnie Scott. Parents also contributed to the education of her musical tastes, collecting records of Dinah Washington (Dinah Washington), Ella Fitzgerald (Ella Fitzgerald), Frank Sinatra (Frank Sinatra) and other great artists.
The pop music period (Madonna, Kylie Minogue, etc.) ended for Amy at the age of ten, when she discovered Salt n Pepa, TLC and other rebellious hip-hop and R&B groups. At the age of 11, the hyperactive Amy was already at the head of her own rap team, which she called Sweet n Sour and described as the Jewish version of SaltnPepa. At the age of 12, the young talent entered the Sylvia Young Theater School, but a year later she was expelled due to the fact that she supposedly "didn't show herself." From the age of 13, Winehouse played the guitar and rapidly expanded her musical horizons, listening to a wide variety of music, mainly modern jazz and hip-hop, and soon began to compose and record her own songs.
Big show business opened Amy Winehouse in 2000, when she was only 16 years old. Through the efforts of her fellow pop singer Tyler James, her demos fell into the hands of Island/Universal managers who were looking for young jazz vocalists. She immediately signed a contract and began performing as a professional singer.
But before the appearance of the debut album was still far away. More than three years passed before, at the end of 2003, Amy Winehouse presented her first studio disc "Frank", for which she wrote most of the material. As Felix Howard, Amy's main collaborator during the debut period, recalled, when he first heard her recordings, he was speechless.
“It was like nothing I had ever heard of,” he confessed. She managed to scare even worldly-wise jazz musicians. Very serious performers participated in the sessions. And when she began to sing, all they could say was, 'Lord Jesus!'."
Most of all, colleagues were shocked by Amy's very frank texts, devoted mainly to her boyfriend, with whom she had recently broken up. But not only to him. Let's say the track "Fuck Me Pumps" is a story about 20-year-old girls who hang around crappy clubs, dreaming of hooking up with a rich fiance. And in the song "What is it About Men?" Amy is trying to figure out the nature of her father and the reasons for his inconstancy in family life (at one time she was very worried about her parents' divorce).
The record was produced by keyboardist and hip-hop producer Sallam Remi. Jazz harmonies fused with elements of soul, pop music, rhythm and blues and hip-hop, sensual and ironic performance, great vocals, in which critics heard the resemblance to Nina Simone and Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Macy Gray, all of which immediately brought Amy Winehouse to the attention of the music industry. Ordinary music lovers swayed longer. It was only after Winehouse's name was nominated for the Brit Awards and the Mercury Music Prize, and at the Ivor Novello Awards, the British composers' award, that she won the Best Contemporary Song award for her first single, "Stronger Than Me", that the sales curve crept up. , written by her together with Salaam Remi. In the summer of 2004, Amy Winehouse was lavishly applauded by audiences at Glastonbury, Jazzworld and V Festival. By this time, the album "Frank" managed to visit the top of the British charts and was awarded a platinum certificate.
In an interview of this period, Winehouse constantly emphasized that her debut album is only 80% her merit, because at the insistence of the label, some songs and mixes that she absolutely did not like got on the disc. She was not completely satisfied with the arrangements either, so later, after the release of her second album, she admitted: “I can’t even listen to Frank now, yes, in general, I didn’t like him before. I never listened to it from start to finish. I only like to perform songs in concert, but it's not like listening to the studio version at all.
Amy Winehouse is quickly becoming one of the favorite characters in the tabloids. Of course, not her music, and even the non-provocative lyrics are to blame. Alcohol and drugs, scandalous antics during the tour, dirty jokes, inappropriate behavior, insulting fans - the journalists had something to profit from. The Independent assured readers that Amy was suffering from a manic-depressive illness but did not want to take medication. The artist herself admitted that she had problems with her appetite “a little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia”, called herself “more of a man than a woman, but not a lesbian”, claimed that all her managers are idiots, marketing is no good, and the promotion of the debut album was terrible.
The more actively the artist played tricks in real life, the worse creative things went, that is, in fact, they didn’t go at all. Recording bosses waited a long time for new songs from Amy, until in the end they offered her to undergo treatment for alcoholism and take a job. From the rehabilitation clinic, Winehouse categorically refused, and instead of being treated, she sat down to write songs. About why she does not want to give herself into the hands of doctors, her new composition "Rehab" told, the first signs on the eve of the next studio album. Amy always said that once she started writing, you couldn't stop her. I just had to be patient and wait for that moment. At this time, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Mark Ronson, known for his production work with Robbie Williams and Christina Aguilera, appeared in her life very opportunely. Amy cited him as the main inspiration for the second album.
Six months later, the record was ready, and in October 2006 the public got acquainted with the first promotional single "Rehab", which immediately catapulted to the British Top 10. The new long-play "Back to Black" released next was received with a bang and by the beginning of 2007 topped the English charts. Even in the history of the American music industry, the record managed to “inherit”: in the US pop chart from the very first week it started at number seven this was the second result of the British singer after Dido (Dido), whose album “Life For Rent” immediately conquered the 4th line of the American rating.
The second album, unlike the debut, permeated with jazz harmonies, returned to the era of the 50s and 60s, drawing inspiration from the then soul, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and the work of female pop groups, in particular the ensemble Shangri Las. Salaam Remy and Mark Ronson shared production duties. The tandem, or rather the Winehouse-Remy-Ronson trio, turned out to be extremely successful, both commercially and creatively. The singer received the Brit Award as the best solo artist, and the disc "Back to Black" was nominated for the title of best British album. At the end of 2006, the readers of Elle magazine named Winehouse the best artist in the UK.
On May 18, 2007, Amy Winehouse married longtime boyfriend Blake Fielder-Sibyl in Miami. In August, the singer canceled concerts in Britain and the United States due to poor health, and soon she and her husband went to a rehabilitation clinic, which she left after five days. Scandalous photographs began to appear in the press (from which it was clear that Amy was openly using hard drugs). In September, the episode when Amy and Blake were caught on the street at the moment of a fight received wide publicity: this (according to the singer) happened after her husband caught her using drugs with a “call girl”. Father Mitch Winehouse expressed concern about the condition of his daughter, suggesting that now it is not far from the tragic denouement. The husband's mother expressed the opinion that the couple is ready for a joint suicide. The representative of Winehouse, however, blamed the paparazzi for everything, who, pursuing the singer, make her life unbearable. In November 2007, Amy's relatives (on her husband's side) issued a statement urging fans to boycott Winehouse's work until the couple broke up with "bad habits."
November saw the release of the DVD I Told You I Was Trouble: Live in London (live at London's Shepherds Bush Empire Hall plus a 50-minute documentary). On December 10, 2007, Love Is a Losing Game, the last single from the second album, was released simultaneously in England and the United States. Two weeks earlier, the debut Frank was released in the US: it was on the 61st place in the Billboard and received positive reviews in the press.
In parallel, Amy Winehouse recorded vocals for "Valerie": songs from Mark Ronson's solo album Version. The single reached number two in the UK in October 2007 and was later nominated for "Best British Single" at the Brit Awards. Winehouse also recorded a duet with Mutya Buena, a former member of the Sugababes: their single "B Boy Baby" (from Buena's solo album Real Girl) was released as a single on 17 December. At the end of December, Amy came in second on Richard Blackwell's 48th annual Worst Dressed Women list, behind only Victoria Beckham. In early January, she began a new rehab program in a special program: at the Caribbean villa of Canadian singer Bryan Adams. A spokesman for Island Records hinted that the company was ready to terminate Winehouse's contract, but label president Nick Gatfield effectively denied the report, stating that she just needed to "give her time to sort out her problems," adding, "America is at her feet."
These words were directly confirmed when it became known that the album Back to Black brought Winehouse 6 Grammy nominations. Amy herself was nominated in the Best New Artist category, and producer Ronson in the Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) category.
On February 10, 2008, the 50th anniversary ceremony of the Grammy Awards took place in Los Angeles: Amy Winehouse became the winner in five categories (Record of the Year, Best New Artist, Song of the Year, Pop Vocal Album, Female Pop Vocal Performance). Winehouse, who was denied a visa, gave a screened acceptance speech (broadcast via satellite from a small London club) and performed "You Know Im No Good" and "Rehab".
In April 2008, the singer, together with her producer Mark Ronson, decided to record the main theme song for the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace. But later, after the recording of the demo, Ronson said that work on the song was stopped, as Winehouse had other plans.
Pete Doherty (they are working on the song “You Hurt The Ones You Love”), Prince (the singer exchanged compliments with him) and George Michael, who specially wrote the song for their future duet, announced their intentions to record with Amy. In addition, there have been reports that the singer is collaborating with Missy Elliot and Timbaland, as well as planning a trip to Jamaica to record with Damian Marley, Bob Marley's son.
On June 12, 2008, the only concert of Amy Winehouse in Russia took place she took part in the opening of the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Bakhmetevsky Garage in Moscow.
In June 2008, Amy Winehouse was admitted to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with emphysema.
In June 2011, Amy Winehouse canceled her European tour after a scandal in Belgrade. The concert was attended by about 20 thousand spectators. The singer was on stage for 1 hour and 11 minutes, but did not sing. At the beginning of the concert, she greeted Athens, then the audience in New York, stumbled, talked to the musicians, tried to sing, but forgot the words. The singer had to leave under the whistle of the audience.
Amy's first posthumous album, Lioness: Hidden Treasures, will be released on December 5, 2011. It will include unreleased compositions written between 2002 and 2011.
The infamous British singer who performed soul-pop with jazz motifs, the winner of several music awards (including the world-famous Grammy).
Childhood Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse(Amy Jade Winehouse) was born in the autumn of 1983 in north London, in a Jewish family. Her father, Mitchell Winehouse, worked as a taxi driver, and her mother, Janis Seaton, was a pharmacist. It was the parents who instilled in their daughter and eldest son Alex a love of jazz. Amy listened to Frank Sinatra hits instead of lullabies. The family was so musical that even in the classroom the girl often forgot and sang her favorite songs, which pissed off the teachers.
When Amy At the age of nine, her grandmother Cynthia suggested that her granddaughter enter Susie Earnshaw's theater school so that she could seriously engage in dramatic art. Already a year later Winehouse and her childhood friend Juliette Ashby formed a rap group and named it "Sweet "n" Sour". Amy studied acting for four years, but then the student was kicked out because she "didn't put in enough effort", and even got her nose pierced.
The creative path of Amy Winehouse
Favorite toy as a child Amy had an older brother's guitar, so at the age of thirteen her parents solemnly handed her their own. A year later, she began writing music. At that time Winehouse worked as a journalist for the World Entertainment News Network and was a soloist in the local band Bolsha. Her boyfriend, soul singer Tyler James, sent a demo tape to one of the recording studios, and soon Amy signed a contract with EMI. Later, one of the singer's agents admitted in an interview:
A terrible scandal erupted around Amy Winehouse. Each producer considered it his duty to bet on this atypical pop star. The TV screen was just showing solid musical reality shows, and the listener was clearly tired of the lack of real talent.
And at this time Amy acquired its recognizable style: a high hairstyle and black arrows in front of the eyes, like the vocalists of The Ronettes. Winehouse always liked the girl bands of the 1960s.
Singer's debut album « Frank" was released in October 2003. Each song was co-written with Amy, and Salaam Remi became its producer. The music was mostly jazz, but in modern processing - the listeners liked it, and already in 2004 the disc took the top line in the British chart and was nominated for the BRIT Awards.
“I'm not one of those who try to snatch their fifteen minutes of fame. I'm just a musician, and I try to be honest. I agree that I am talented. But - and this is absolutely true - I was not born to sing, but to be a wife and mother. And look after the family. The biggest mistake a parent can make is to conceive a child with bad music.
Unlike its predecessor, the second album Winehouse was inspired by bands in the 1960s. To record it, the singer invited the accompanying line-up of The Dap-Kings, and in May 2006 presented the singles You Know I'm No Good and Rehab to the world. "Back To Black" took place on October 30, 2006. He immediately took first place in the UK music charts, and the American Billboard 200 gave him the seventh line.
By the end of the year Amy Winehouse won four Grammy Awards, winning Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Female Vocal and Best Pop Album, and entered the Guinness Book of Records as the first British female artist to win so many awards.
In 2010 Winehouse announced that her next album would be released no later than January 2011, and that it would sound similar to her previous one, but the recording never took place.
Amy Winehouse's personal life
The singer married her boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil in May 2007, in Miami. This couple has been caught bruised on the streets of London more than once after a drunken brawl. The parents of the spouses publicly admitted their fears that the two might commit suicide. Blake himself said that it was he who planted Amy for crack cocaine and heroin.
In 2008, Fielder-Civil was taken into custody after inflicting grievous bodily harm on a London pub owner in July 2007. According to investigators, the victim took 200 thousand pounds, which belonged to Amy Winehouse, and agreed to hush up the case, but in the end, Blake spent six months in prison.
In 2009, the singer was seen in the company of an actor Josh Bowman(Josh Bowman) at a celebration in Saint Lucia. She later stated that she was in love and no longer needed drugs:
“My whole marriage has been a total buzz because all we did was take illegal drugs. To be honest, I don't even remember why I got married.
Fielder-Civil filed for divorce in response, demanding financial compensation from his wife for treason. In August 2009, the couple officially broke up.
- The first time I kissed was at 11 or 12. It was a boy named Chris - a Greek by birth - and he is now gay. The world is full of straight men who look like little naughty sluts, and also a lot of gay men who, like, tell you “let me carry it” or “put on my jacket”. And you start thinking: "And why the hell do they like guys."
In June 2008, Mitch Winehouse stated that his daughter had emphysema and that if she did not stop smoking and using drugs, then all this could end badly. Amy ignored the request of her father, and from time to time appeared in the pictures with a cigarette.
July 23, 2011 Emmy Winehouse was found dead at her home in Camden, London. According to the preliminary version, the cause of her death was a drug overdose.
This news spread around the world at the speed of light, becoming the main topic in many social networks. Many of Amy's stage colleagues admitted that they were saddened by such a sudden loss of a talented musician and artist.
Amy Winehouse. This woman went down in world history as a singer with an unusual contralto vocal. She was criticized for bad taste, but was called the icon of the generation. Despite numerous awards and world recognition during her lifetime, she was never able to find the simple female happiness that she so dreamed of. In the summer of 2011, the news of her death spread around the world, and she was only 27 ...
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Childhood
It all started back in 1983, when a girl was born in an ordinary Jewish family in England, in principle, she was no different from her peers, until in 1993 her parents divorced, and she stopped attending school in protest and was purged.
Then there were several schools, she became interested in singing, she managed to organize her group and star in an episode of one of the series. It is worth noting that despite the fact that the father and mother were not engaged in musical professions at all, the father was fond of jazz in his spare time, and the mother had relatives who were directly related to jazz. At the age of 14, she began writing songs and also tried drugs.
At the age of 16, she got a job as a journalist in a London publication. One day, she decides to record some of her songs with her then-boyfriend Tyler James, who was also into soul singing. Her songs were heard by the right people, and in 2003 her first album, called Frank, was released, before that she performed as a backing singer and opening act for jazz orchestras.
Her songs and image were a challenge to modern society, but her first album was warmly received by critics and received many awards. Since that time, her fame has grown exponentially and by the age of 24 she had the most prestigious world music awards. As for her personal life, Amy did not consider herself a beauty and devoted more time to music, while sitting down to have an affair with guys.
Love
Blake Fielder-Civil - this man left the brightest mark in the life of the most famous British singer. Their love story began in 2005, when Amy bought drugs from him, because he is a drug dealer. They met in a pub (where Amy and her friend liked to spend a lot of time), they began to use light drugs together and drink alcohol, so, unbeknownst to both of them, feelings began. She is a London-famous singer who released a mega-popular album only a year ago, and he is a loser who leads a far from correct lifestyle.
At first, he was even surprised that wherever he went with Amy, the paparazzi followed them, but later he got used to it, and he even began to like living in the shadow of the fame of a famous and successful person. Later, she asked him for heroin and he gave it to her, as a result, Amy's father would not let Blake go to his daughter's funeral, because it was Blake who put the singer on hard drugs.
Winehouse is becoming more and more popular, and her boyfriend decides to prove that without him, an ordinary guy, she is nothing, and leaves her for an ex-girlfriend. The singer is not lost and tries to drown out the pain of parting with her beloved with her creativity. She drowned out all her emotions with alcohol and wrote songs, as a result, the second album was released in 2006 called Back to Black (for which she received 6 Grammys).
Amy's ex-boyfriend was well aware that he could lose a successful singer with multimillion-dollar bets, and returned to her, she, happy and in love, made a tattoo on her chest in honor of this man. It is worth noting that Amy had 13 tattoos on her body, each of which symbolized a certain stage in her life. They soon got married. For the next two years, they both drank heavily, took drugs and made scandals.
Once Amy almost died from an overdose, as a result, she and her husband divorced in 2009. Blake admitted that he broke up with Amy in order to save her, because it was he who caused her addiction to drugs. Further in her life there was a series of clinics where she was treated for drug addiction and explosions, as well as scandals that the yellow press vigorously discussed. Blake went to prison, she visited him, and in the evening washed down all her sorrows with alcohol and sought solace in bedtime novels. As a result, this all led to an overdose and Amy again began to be treated.
Even after the dissolution of the marriage, she did not stop loving Blake. The last two years of her life, she often flashed on the pages of yellow publications, where she was ridiculed and criticized in every possible way. In 2010, she was seen with Blake, the couple walked arm in arm, but ... After another drug addiction recovery in the clinic, Amy started life from scratch, got herself a boyfriend, who even proposed to her, but ...
She lived 4 months of a normal life, without alcohol and drugs, dating a guy, but she herself perfectly understood that she loved Blake and a normal life was boring and uninteresting to her. Many believe that Amy Winehouse is part of the infamous 27 club, that is, those idols who died at the age of 27.
Charity
Despite her rather turbulent life, between treatment in clinics and hard drinking, she did charity work, donated many dresses to the poor English, and also thought about adopting a girl, but alas, it did not work out.
Death, like the life of a scandalous diva, was covered in an area of scandals and rumors. According to the official version, Amy died as a result of alcohol poisoning in a year of loneliness in her own home. Recently, Amy's brother admitted that the true cause of death of the legendary vocalist was bulimia, she suffered from the bark since childhood, while drugs and alcohol only exacerbated everything.
Creative activity
Despite the success that the singer had during her short life, her concert activity was very unstable, because she very often canceled her concerts either because of a bad mood or because of health problems, as a result, the last 2 years of her life she rarely performed and fed fans with promises to release a third album. As a result, Winehouse's creative track record includes two albums and several singles. In 2011, Amy's father released the third posthumous album of the singer, and in 2013 the release of the fourth album was announced. All proceeds from the sales of the third and fourth albums will go to a charitable foundation created after the death of the singer.
Style
Amy Winehouse's style cannot be called exemplary and ordinary, she has always been criticized because of the arrows in her eyes and a high hairstyle with a red ribbon - these were her chips. Amy did not claim a place in the fashion world as a trendsetter, but nevertheless she managed to enter the fashion world. She boldly compensated for feminine dresses with tattoos, while getting a very feminine look. Amy, despite criticism towards her style and manner of dressing, inspired eminent designers and stylists. Karl Lagerfeld himself created a collection inspired by the singer's style. Many designers created collections in honor of the style of Winehouse posthumously.
Recognition after death
Like most truly brilliant people, even greater fame came to Amy, alas, after her death, her third album was released under the name Lioness: Hidden Treasures. This album included already known hits of the performer and several unknown songs, as a result of which the posthumous album was certified double platinum in the UK. After her death, most critics and world show business stars began to sing of her talent and glorified him, but no one could help her change for the better and get rid of alcohol and drug addiction, which later caused her death.
