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In July 2011, one of the leading British performers of the early 20th century suddenly passed away. What are the causes of Amy Winehouse's death?
Childhood
Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 in London to a Jewish family. Her ancestors were immigrants from Russia. His father worked in a taxi service, and his mother was a pharmacist.
The whole family literally lived for music. The girl's paternal grandmother was a jazz singer and even at one time had an affair with Ronnie Scott. Mother's brothers are professional jazzmen. The father sang for his daughter, choosing songs from Frank Sinatra's repertoire.
In 1993, the parents of the future singer broke off relations, but continued to take care of the children in the same way.
At the age of 10, Amy, together with her friend Juliette Ashby, organizes the Sweet 'n' Sour group and performs rap. At the age of 12, she began her studies at the Sylvia Young Theater School, from where she was soon expelled for behavior.
Career
The first songs were written by her at the age of 14. At the same time, she tries drugs. A year later, the singer begins work at the World Entertainment News Network, sings in a jazz band and meets with soul artist Tyler James. It was he who helped her get a contract with EMI.
The first fee from a lucrative contract, she invested in creativity, hiring The Dap-Kings to accompany in the studio. In the future, the same group accompanied her on tour.
In the fall of 2003, Amy Winehouse and producer Salaam Remi released her first album "Frank", which received two Brit nominations and went platinum. Unprecedented success for a debut. In the same year, the young singer already sang from the stage of the Glastonbury festival.
The second album of the singer “Back to Black” broke records: in the UK it became five times platinum, declared the best-selling album of 2007 and took first place in the popularity rating among iTunes users. Later, this record will bring her 6 Grammys.
The first song from the album Rehab (#7, UK) in May 2007 won the Ivor Novello award for "Best Contemporary Song".
In the summer of 2007, the general public became aware that Amy Winehouse was suffering from severe drug addiction and was using hard drugs. Relatives talked about the singer’s possible suicide, asked her to ignore her work until she “jumped off”, but the girl’s official representatives blamed the paparazzi for everything, who bothered her too much.
In early 2008, Amy goes to rehabilitation, which takes place in the Caribbean at a villa owned by Bryan Adams. At the same time, the record company Island Records announces its readiness to break the contract with her if she does not get rid of her addiction.
In April, information appeared that she would be recording the soundtrack for the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, but later the arrangements were canceled due to a change in the singer's plans.
The first and only concert of Amy Winehouse in Russia took place on June 12, 2008 at the opening of the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture.
In 2011, the artist canceled an entire tour after she was booed in Belgrade because she went on stage, where she spent two hours, but did not start singing, talking to the musicians and greeting the audience every now and then.
How did Amy Winehouse die?
On July 23, 2011, the singer's lifeless body was found in her London apartment. It has not been possible to reliably find out what Amy Winehouse died of. The first versions put forward were suicide and an overdose, however, drugs and other substances prohibited by law were not found in the apartment. The father of the deceased suggested that the girl died of a heart attack, the cause of which could be alcohol poisoning.
On July 26, Amy's body was cremated and buried next to her beloved grandmother in the Jewish cemetery.
Family
On May 18, 2007, Amy Winehouse married Blake Fielder-Civil. They both suffered from drug addiction and their relatives said that their joint suicide was possible. The couple separated in 2009, and after the death of Amy Blake was not allowed to attend the funeral.
Only after Amy died, did information appear that she wanted to adopt the girl Dannica Augustine and even collected the necessary documents for this.
The sudden departure of Amy Winehouse was a big blow not only for relatives, but also for millions of fans around the world. The music world has lost a unique, original singer with a unique image and an unforgettable voice.
Popular British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment in London. A five-time Grammy-winning soul and R&B performer, she entered the world stage in 2003 but hasn't performed in recent years. The young woman had serious health problems due to alcohol and drug abuse.
Singer's ex-husband: "I made the biggest mistake of my life when I let Amy try heroin."
1. The streets around the London home of the British singer Amy Winehouse are cordoned off, fans of her work are carrying flowers to the police cordons, reporters are on duty at every corner. On Saturday around 19.00 Moscow time, Amy was found dead in her apartment.
2. Two ambulances were called, but the doctors could only testify to death. An examination to establish the cause of death is scheduled for July 25, so for now one can only guess about them. Pictured is a note from a fan with the caption: “Dear Amy, it’s good that this happened to you at your home.”
3. British singer and director Reg Traviss, who, according to journalists, until recently met with Winehouse, watches people pass to lay flowers at the house of the late singer.
4. Rumors about the causes of death are mainly related to drugs and alcohol. Amy, 27, made no secret of her bad habits. It is symbolic that the single “Rehab” from the album “Back To Black”, which became a musical sensation in 2007, brought her world fame. In Amy's home country, rehab is a rehabilitation clinic.
5. Throughout the song, the girl complains that they want to send her for treatment, especially daddy is zealous in this, but she, Amy, simply doesn’t have time for this, and she doesn’t part with the bottle just because she loses her sweetheart, that’s why she depressed. "I'm not going to spend ten weeks just for everyone to think I'm getting better," she sings in her biggest hit.
6. Whatever Amy Winehouse did, the outline of a rehab clinic always loomed behind her. In 2008, with the album “Back To Black”, she won five Grammy nominations, but she could not come to the USA for awards - she was simply not given a visa because of her unreliability.
7. The tabloids wrote that she had just left the clinic and was under the supervision of her parents, especially her father. Every time journalists got hold of photos of drunk Amy, her father stated that the singer was in the clinic.
8. Colleagues in the music department always highly appreciated her talent, she was ordered to soundtracks for films (but she did not make them), many sought to record a duet with her. There was news that the singer is collaborating with Missy Eliot and Timbaland, and is also going to work with Damian Marley, the most popular contemporary reggae artist, son of Bob Marley.
9. George Michael wrote a song specifically for their duet, but it seems in vain. Rapper Snoop Dogg still regrets that he failed to work with her in 2009: “I wanted to be her friend, tried to get her out of a bunch of problems that she was then. I assured her that if she came to the studio, she would get her life back on track,” he said. But all in vain.
10. A duet with the most popular London poet and musician Peter Doherty, with whom they were especially friendly at one time, did not work out. The musicians were often seen drinking together, but not singing. At one time there were even rumors about their romance.
11. But Peter was honest and even wrote a letter to Blake Fielder-Civil, Amy's husband, who was in prison at that time: “I wrote him, they say, Blake, dude, I really like your couple. And I never had any thoughts about Amy! I hope you know it!" Blake replied that he knew perfectly well what evil tongues were.
12. In the photo with his mother.
13. Still blonde and without her famous hairstyle, Amy is leaving London's Snersbrook Crown Court after her husband Blake Fielder-Civil's trial.
14. By the way, Mitch Winehouse - Amy's father - has repeatedly said that he considers Blake to be guilty of Amy's drug addiction and alcoholism. He even urged Amy's fans to boycott her work until the couple quit drugs. Amy's mother openly stated that the couple was capable of committing suicide together.
15. Amy never had a normal concert schedule. Due to her unstable health and unpredictable behavior, it was impossible to make long-term plans. Concerts were canceled every now and then, the patience of the public ran high. For the past year and a half, Winehouse has been feeding fans with the promise of a new album, but no one has heard it.
16. Perhaps some time after the death of the singer, her relatives will publish unreleased songs. In the meantime, the creative heritage of Amy Winehouse is small. Only a few singles and two full-length albums remained from her: the jazz record "Frank" (received local recognition only in the UK) and the amazing soul album "Back To Black", which became a musical revelation for the whole world. Amy made luscious jazzy ethno-soul one of the most popular genres in female pop music of the late 00s. Since 2007, in the absence of new singles from Winehouse, the radio stations have been trashing her second album to holes. Pictured: Winehouse and her musician husband Blake Fielder-Civil arrive at the MTV Movie Awards on June 3, 2007 at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, California.
17. But no matter how talented the artist was, over the years of her silence and slow public suicide with alcohol, the public was angry with her. A few weeks before Amy's death, former fans literally hounded her. It happened after a failed performance at the festival in Belgrade on June 18 (it was the last concert of the singer), when she could not sing a word and the fans booed her. The singer's management had to cancel a European tour scheduled for this summer. The press did not skimp on cruel words, it seemed that the whole world took up arms against Amy and demanded that she stop drinking. Doctors warned the singer that even a small dose of alcohol could lead to her death, she was so sick. In addition to drug and alcohol addiction, her health was undermined by pulmonary emphysema and cardiac disorders. On the picture: Winehouse after arriving at Earls Court Arena in London for the Brit Awards on February 14, 2007.
18. In early July, hackers hacked into the official website of Amy Winehouse, posted a photo of a laughing black homeless man on the main page and claimed to be representatives of the African-American gay community. "We will rid the Internet of the White Devil!" - so they called Amy and several of her colleagues to boot. On the picture: September 7, 2004. Looking much healthier without her famous hair and tattoos, Winehouse is in London for the annual national Mercury Prize ceremony.
19. The programmers of the singer could not cope with this infection for several days and return the site to its proper form. Amy did not comment on what happened to the press. But many Internet commentators joked that now Amy can only poison herself or shoot herself from such a shame. Oddly enough, in the rumors about Amy's death, the version of suicide takes the second place.
"It's not hard to control madness," Amy told herself and the audience. When her lifeless body was discovered in a house on Camden Square in north London on July 23, 2011, the tabloids rushed to state a drug overdose as the cause of death. What actually happened?
The end of the life of a talented and outrageous singer immediately caused a lot of rumors and incredible guesses. We analyzed the most likely versions of her death. So what really happened to Amy Winehouse?
Amy Winehouse's cause of death was criminal?
The death of bright figures “in the prime of life” always generates interest and spurs myth-making. Amy Winehouse, whose cause of death shortly before her 28th birthday became one of the puzzles for the singer's relatives, her fans and the police, has always been distinguished by her ability to intrigue around her person.
Queen Camden Square
The ubiquitous paparazzi have repeatedly captured the cameras of the owner of five Grammys, who uses hard drugs, and once even filmed an unsightly picture of a fight involving Amy and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil (Blake Fielder-Civil).
When a person takes his own life at the age of 27, it is difficult to assume that death has natural causes.
After the nosy "Pinkertons" of the London police qualified the death of the singer as "inexplicable", a variety of versions began to appear in the press. “Explain the death of Amy Winehouse” – such was the attitude of almost every publication, while the heartbroken family mourned “their girl”, who was killed by no one knows what (or by whom?).
What killed the talented singer?
There were even those who managed to find out that the police found “traces of a male person whose identity has not been established” in Amy’s apartment. However, apart from the fact that the "unidentified person" allegedly mixed "the last hellish cocktail of alcohol and drugs", nothing was said. The cause of Amy Winehouse's death may not have been a cocktail at all. The doctors who performed the autopsy and the toxicological analysis threw up their hands in confusion and shrugged their shoulders.
Amy Winehouse: Is death natural?
When a person takes his own life at the age of 27, it is difficult to assume that the death has natural causes. However, three years before her death, the singer Amy Winehouse (Amy Winehouse) was in the hospital. And not in another drug treatment clinic, as many might think, but in a medical institution where she was diagnosed with a serious illness - emphysema.
On July 23, 2011, exhausted and haggard, she told her assistants that she "felt bad" and a few hours later the guard was unable to wake her up. She fell asleep". Forever.
In life, Amy was that rowdy
A couple of months later, in September of the same year, the singer's father voiced the assumption that the cause of his daughter's death was a heart attack - the result of alcohol detoxification. Given the fact that the Honorable Mitchell Winehouse is the husband of a pharmacist and taxi driver, his version of why Amy Winehouse died must be viewed with caution.
The new legend of pop music Amy Jade Winehouse appeared on September 14, 1983 in the town of Southgate near London. The parents of the future star, Jews by nationality, had nothing to do with music: mother Janice Winehouse worked as a pharmacist, father Mitch Winehouse was a taxi driver. True, the music lover dad collected a serious collection of jazz records at home and often sang something to his daughter before going to bed.
On my mother’s side, there were several musicians in the family at once - the singer’s uncles were professional jazz players, and her paternal grandmother was an absolutely wonderful person - a former soul and jazz singer, the youthful love of the legendary Ronnie Scott. It was with Grandma that Amy first visited a tattoo parlor and tasted beer. In honor of the world relative, the singer subsequently even got a tattoo “Cynthia”, imprinting the name of the old woman on her own body.
When the future singer turned nine, her parents divorced, and her grandmother demanded that Amy be sent to the prestigious and well-known art school "Susi Earnshaw Theater School" - they say, there the baby's talent will flourish. Cynthia turned out to be right, but Winehouse immediately became known as a difficult child - in the classroom, the teachers could not silence her, the baby constantly sang.
At the age of ten, the girl heard and discovered protest music - hip-hop and R&B. Favorites and a role model was the group "Salt" n "Pepa". A year later, the future star with her classmate Juliette Ashby was working hard in her own hip-hop project Sweet "n" Sour. Amy Winehouse herself called her group "the Jewish version of" Salt "n" Pepa. At the age of twelve, the student transferred from the Sylvia Young Theater School, but was expelled just a year later - the girl's behavior was far from exemplary.
At the age of thirteen, Winehouse made a special gift - Amy received her first musical instrument. It was a guitar that the future star never parted with. The girl began to write her own songs and every day enthusiastically indulged in a new favorite thing. During this period, her main inspirations were Sarah Vaughn and Dinah Washington - classics of jazz and soul. At the same time, Amy, who had become quite skilled in terms of vocals, performed with several local bands and recorded the first demo versions of her songs.
Music
In 2000, at the age of sixteen, Amy Winehouse entered the big show business. She never rushed into it, but the case helped the case. The girl's ex-boyfriend, soul singer Tyler James, sent a tape with her demos to the manager of the Island / Universal production center, who was just looking for aspiring jazz vocalists. So Winehouse received a contract and began her career as a professional singer.
In 2003, her debut album "Frank" was released, named after her beloved Sinatra. Both listeners, critics, and seasoned musicians were struck by the combination of elegant melody, defiant lyrics and the girl's unique voice. In a year, the album went platinum, and all those who had recently been shocked by the outrageousness of the young talent were passionately carried away by the singer.
Amy was nominated for the Brit Awards and the Mercury Music Prize. Her first single, "Stronger Than Me", created in a duet with Salaam Remy, brought Winehouse the title of the author of the best contemporary song at the Ivor Novello Awards British composers award ceremony.
At the same time, the talented singer became a regular hero of the pages of the yellow press. Drugs and alcohol, harsh jokes and harsh statements, insults to the press and listeners, inappropriate behavior - what else is needed for the paparazzi to be happy?
The girl's second album was released in 2006. Winehouse's "Back to Black" was inspired by female pop and jazz bands from the 50s and 60s. The album almost immediately landed at number seven on the Billboard chart and was certified 5x platinum. The very first single from Rehab was awarded the Ivor Novello award in the spring of 2007. It was named the best contemporary song. Later, clips were shot for this and other songs.
In 2008, at the 50th Grammy ceremony, Amy Winehouse received 5 awards at once (“Record of the Year”, “Best New Artist”, “Song of the Year”, “Best Pop Album” and “Best Female Pop Song Performance” for “ rehab”). True, the singer was never given an American visa, so she gave a speech of thanks via Skype.
In the same year, Amy Winehouse was supposed to perform the main composition for the next episode of the film about the legendary James Bond "Quantum of Solace". However, it was later announced that the singer had other plans. But another British star who performed a similar song in the cult film about a spy won an Oscar.
Adele, whose albums are now sold in millions of copies, admitted in a recent interview that it was Winehouse's work that inspired her to start her own musical career. Specifically, Amy's debut album influenced her.
Drugs and alcohol
In the summer of 2007, Amy pulled out of shows in the United States and Britain, announcing health problems. Information got into the press that the girl was “sitting” on hard drugs. Then she spent five days in rehabilitation in a specialized clinic.
In June 2008 Winehouse gave the only concert in Russia. The opening of the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture was a unique event. And after a while the girl was in the hospital with a diagnosis of emphysema.
In the same year, Amy earned several leads to the police (for attacks and on suspicion of possession of drugs) and again went to rehabilitation - to the Caribbean villa of singer Bryan Adams. Island/Universal have seriously promised to terminate the contract with the singer if she does not get rid of her addictions.
After a scandalous concert in Belgrade in June 2011, the star canceled a European tour. Then she went on stage in front of 20,000 spectators in a state of extreme intoxication, but she could not sing - she constantly forgot the words. Therefore, the logical reason for the cancellation of the tour was "the inability to perform at the proper level."
Personal life
In 2005, Amy met Blake Fielder-Sibyl in a pub. Two years later, the couple formalized the relationship. The relationship could not be called simple - the couple abused alcohol together, took drugs, often fought and became the objects of close attention of the paparazzi. Amy's relatives often stated in the press that it was Blake who had a bad influence on the girl and did not allow her to stop doping.
In 2008, Winehouse's wife was sentenced to twenty-seven months in prison for assaulting a man. In prison, the guy began the divorce proceedings, and in 2009 the couple divorced.
The singer lived a short life and will be remembered not only by her loyal fans, but also by those men with whom she had a relationship. And it wasn't just her husband. Her men were overwhelmingly also musicians.
The first boyfriend of the performer, which is known to the general public, was music manager George Roberts. Amy also dated young musician Alex Clare. He spoke enthusiastically about the relationship with the star, being sure that she would not return to her husband. But Winehouse returned, and Claire, in retaliation, told many details of Amy's intimate life.
There was a page in Winehouse's life when she met with ex-boyfriend Pete Doherty, who, like her husband, was not averse to indulging in drugs. Everything could change radically in Amy's life after meeting British director Reg Travis. However, it didn’t work out here either, especially since the ex-lover of Travis actively put spokes in the wheels of the couple.
After Winehouse's death, it turned out that for some time the singer had been preparing documents for the adoption of the ten-year-old Dannica Augustine. The artist met a girl from a poor Caribbean family in 2009 on the island of Santa Lucia. However, the plans were not destined to come true.
Death
On July 23, 2011, the music world was stunned by the news - in her London apartments. The examination revealed that the level of alcohol in the body of the deceased was five times higher than the norm compatible with human life, recognizing the death as an accident. How true this version is, it was not possible to find out.
The singer's father is sure that death could have occurred due to a heart attack, which was caused by alcohol poisoning. According to the preliminary version, Amy Winehouse died of a drug overdose. But the police failed to find drugs in the house. A re-investigation in 2013 did not reveal any additional data.
The death of Winehouse vividly recalled the death of the great guitarist Jimi Hendrix, who was also found dead in one of the apartments in the English capital. He choked on vomiting after an overdose of sleeping pills, but there were other rumors about the death of the guitarist: for example, that he was deliberately poisoned. As with Winehouse, no definite cause of death has been established.
July 26, 2011 Amy Winehouse was cremated. The funeral was held at the Jewish cemetery of Edzhuerbury Lane, where the grave of the star is adjacent to the grandmother's.
Fans of the performer, having received the tragic news, literally blew up the Internet, and colleagues began to dedicate songs to the untimely departed star. On the day of the singer's death, U2 soloist Bono dedicated the song to her. The song was called "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of". In Russia, Winehouse's death did not leave anyone indifferent, who left a mournful note on her page, and the Slot group (song R.I.P.).
In December 2011, Winehouse's posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures was released, which included recordings from 2002-2011. In the first week after the release, the record broke into the top of the UK Albums Chart, and the singer's father sent all the proceeds from its sales to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which is designed to help victims of alcohol and drug addiction.
In 2014, a monument to the late star was unveiled in London's Camden.
In 2015, the documentary "Amy" directed by Asif Kapadia was released. The film received many positive reviews, but the singer's father was critical of the work, saying that he was going to start his own project, which would be "more than just a film."
It's better to burn out than to fade away Kurt Cobain Amy Winehouse is gone. On July 23, 2011, she was found dead in her own apartment. The body was discovered not by a loved one, not by a relative, not by a close friend, but by a guard, and at the time of death there was no one near her who could possibly save her. She died alone, and perhaps this is precisely the greatest tragedy.
Amy Winehouse became a legend during her lifetime. She was the queen of soul, the enfant terrible of the modern scene, a brawler and a drug addict. She was adored and hated, loved and despised, but very few could remain indifferent to her voice.
He sounded like from the past, and it was so strange to understand that this person was still alive. Incomprehensible and a little wild, outdated and unglamorous, Amy sang the way they sang, probably, only in the 40s.
However, Winehouse really often compared with the legendary jazz singer of those years - Billie Holiday (Billy Holiday), although it seems to me more like Janis Joplin (Janis Joplin).
All three were united by the fact that in every song, no matter how light the melody was, some kind of hidden pain and suffering always sounded - as if each of them had a bleeding, non-healing wound in their soul.
Perhaps it was this pain that was the reason that all three abused drugs and alcohol, and seemed to deliberately follow the path of self-destruction: Billie Holiday died at 44 from cirrhosis of the liver (caused by alcoholism), Janis Joplin - at 27 from an overdose, Amy Winehouse - also at 27, for reasons yet to be clarified, but, according to one version, it was also drugs.
In general, 27 is a very strange number, as if attracting death. It was at the age of 27 that Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and the already mentioned Janis Joplin died - truly great musicians who had a huge impact on rock music.
This is the golden composition of the famous "Club 27" - this is how the musicians who had a significant impact on rock music and died at the age of 27 are called. Each of them burned brightly, each of them burned himself to the ground, following the motto Live fast, die young (“Live fast, die young”) to the end.
And Amy was exactly the same, although only time will tell what mark in history her music will leave (and leave).
Jump into the abyss
Amy Winehouse: on the road to fame
Amy Winehouse
Like all members of the 27 Club, Amy Winehouse's life and career were short but colorful. She sang from childhood, but not to participate in competitions, not to become a star, but just for fun - this was the custom in her family: her father often sang Sinatra songs to little Amy, and her mother's brothers were professional jazzmen.
At the age of 10, she gathered her first band, at 14 she began writing her own songs and tried drugs for the first time, at 15 she was accepted into a jazz band, and at 20 she had already become a star. Her first album - Frank (2003) - was nominated for two music awards at once - Ivor Novello and Mercury Prize.
And the second album - Back to Black (2006) made her a star of the first magnitude: for him, Amy Winehouse received 5 Grammy awards at once and got into the Guinness Book of Records.
It was certified 5x platinum in its UK home country, and Rehab won the Ivor Novello award for Best Contemporary Song in 2007.
The third album was supposed to be released in 2010, but the fans did not wait for it. There were rumors that the singer was working on new records, but Winehouse could not complete what she started.
Causes of death
Amy Winehouse: jump into the abyss
Amy Winehouse
Serious drug problems began with Amy Winehouse in 2007, when she was at the peak of her fame - this is the most "stellar" year in her career. It would seem that she has achieved everything one can dream of, but instead of basking in the rays of glory, for some reason she hit all the hard ones.
Starting in 2007, news began to appear in the press that Winehouse was once again caught using drugs. It was no longer a secret to anyone that the singer's constant companions were alcohol and crack.
Repeatedly she tried to quit, went through rehabilitation programs, but each time she invariably broke down, and everything started anew. A year later, in 2008, health problems were added to drug problems - Winehouse was diagnosed with emphysema.
This disease is not uncommon among opera singers, but in Winehouse's case, the cause was not singing, but the abuse of cigarettes and crack.
One of the manifestations of emphysema is difficulty breathing, and doctors warned Amy that if she did not stop smoking, she would have to wear an oxygen mask.
At first, Winehouse strictly followed the recommendations, but, as usual, she was not enough for a long time. True, according to the singer's father, Mitchell Winehouse, about a year before her death, she still managed to get involved with drugs, but alcohol immediately took their place.
True, even giving up drugs did not help the singer return to her normal state - she not only could not finish the album, but also practically stopped performing.
However, those rare concerts, which she nevertheless managed to give from time to time, more than once turned into a failure - she went on stage drunk, sometimes she could not remember the words, and the level of performance, to put it mildly, left much to be desired.
She seemed to be rolling downhill, and the apotheosis of this sad fall, of course, was concert in Belgrade.
20 thousand spectators, the first concert of the European tour - everyone was waiting with bated breath for her performance: Amy went on stage, but after spending more than an hour on it, she did not start singing. She was frankly drunk, fell, forgot the words, and the audience drove her away.
It is fair, but at the same time, it is terrible to think what was going on in the soul of Amy Winehouse, since she could not force herself to sing - to do what she lived for, what was the meaning of her life.
Death of Amy Winehouse: Accident or Suicide?
Amy Winehouse
With such a passion for self-destruction, a tragic end was probably inevitable. And it's not just about drugs, because there are many examples when even the most avid drug addicts suddenly overcame addiction.
For example, Iggy Pop (Iggy Pop), who, it seems, knew all the facets of self-destruction: he cut and shredded himself, walked on glass, sat on heroin and did not care at all about his bodily shell, but at the same time he lived in a thirst for life.
And that’s exactly what Winehouse didn’t have: there seemed to be something globally wrong with her - fragile and bright, but at the same time completely lost, devoid of a core.
It is still unknown what role the singer's illness played in this whole story - perhaps she really seriously threatened her singing career, because breathing problems would inevitably affect her vocal data.
Of course, this is just a guess, but maybe Amy just couldn't see her life without music and decided that she simply had nothing to lose, so why not die at 27 before life gets even more unbearable?
And, perhaps, the reason for the poor performances and the delay in the release of the album was that the disease made itself felt, and Amy could no longer sing fully?
Or maybe everything is much simpler, and Amy could not cope with the glory that fell on her?
One of the journalists (Alan Woodhouse from NME), who knew the singer, said that fame ruined Winehouse's life: after she became famous, her behavior changed dramatically, and it was unbearably hard for her to constantly be in the spotlight
“She was just the most ordinary girl from north London. Yes, she had an amazing gift, but I think she herself did not understand how far it would take her. Fame consumed her and she couldn't handle it." he said. Perhaps the drugs were the magic pill that helped her cope with her life. Having abandoned them, she was left alone with her fears and could not resist them.
Of course, her death could have been an accident, but an inevitable accident - everything that happened before that was like a prelude to tragedy. Even the singer's mother considered Amy's death just a matter of time, although she did not expect everything to happen so soon.
Whatever the case, Amy Winehouse is no more. Strange, but even now there are spiteful critics who happily declare that she deserved to die.
Of course, her life can by no means be called an example to follow, but it’s not in vain that it is said that the dead are either good or nothing. Rest in peace, Amy.
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