Amy Winehouse

Music

1. AMY WINEHOUSE
(1983 - 2011)


Cynthia was born in London in 1983, this
controversial composer and soul singer was
one of the greatest revelations of recent
years. She was gifted with prodigious vocal
qualities that led her to a dizzying success.

In February 2008 Amy Winehouse was the
big winner of the Grammy Awards getting
five of six prizes to those that was nominee
for the second album of his career, Black to
black, one of the best albums of the decade.

Her parents, Mitch and Janis, were fans of soul and jazz. It was
soon exposed that they had no authority to deal with the bad
temper of their daughter, a rebellious child that required constant
attention. The only person who seemed to have some power over
the girl was his paternal grandmother.
Amy's head had a single obsession: to succeed as a singer and
since she was ten years old, she tried to form a rap duo in the
style of the later Salt'n'Pepa not feel very proud. In 1995 she sign
up in a drama school Sylvia Young, of which she was expelled the
following year for having a pierced nose. But with the obstinacy
of Amy, she became an intuitive singer who gained experience on
stage working as a vocalist of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.

2. At the age of sixteen, her
then-boyfriend, also a singer
Tyler James, sent to a
manager called Nick
Godwyn a demo of Amy.
Godwyn invited her to an
audition, and when he saw
her he knew he had gold in
his hands. "It was incredible. He knew the old school and hip-
hop. It was plump, had strength and unique style." A style that
should be added, he knew his cockney accent decorating,
conspicuous tattoos and a moving provocatively in public.
Under the tutelage of his new manager, Amy Winehouse went to
Miami to meet the producer Salaam Remi, an au thority on
rhythm and blues. Immediately,
she was hired by the record
company. Amy's talent allowed
her to finish her debut in record
time, given that almost never
kept out of tune and time with
precision, so it was not necessary
to do many takes for each subject.

Frank (titled in honor of Sinatra)
was Winehouse's first album.
Appeared in 2003, was an
exceptional success platinum,

3. was nominated for the Mercury Music Awards and won an Ivor
Novello Award in 2004 with single “Stronger than me”.


Many people say it was Pete
Doherty, lead singer of The
Libertines and partner of Kate
Moss, who served her as guide
for the most dangerous places
in Camden. In those years,
Amy had free access to drugs
and alcohol. She began a
romance with the troublemaker Blake Fielder. "I need to have
trouble feeling my creative force," said Amy about it.

Alternating periods of anorexia and bulimia, drinking every night
and going without stopping, Amy seemed to feed on their own
misfortune to get ahead. While her still manager, Nick Godwyn
alerted the singer's parents about the danger of her path if she
was not away from her messy lifestyle. Amy's response was a
fierce refusal to be helped

4. In 2006 returned to the studio with a look quite different from
three years ago, six sizes smaller and visibly fatigued face.
Paradoxically, her talent and charisma seemed to have grown.

The album Black to black, produced by Mark Ronson won triple
platinum within weeks of its appearance, made according to the
most severe criticism and the public.
Amy shout in her best record, ten
songs written by herself. In the lyrics
reflected her cynical view of
relationships and her particular
immersion in the underworld of
drugs and alcohol. In the single
Rehab, she made clear that it would
not be easily redirect the path of
temperance: "They try to go to rehab
[rehabilitation] / but I say 'no, no,
no'." Or: "I know that I will lose my

5. boy, / so I have always a bottle close." It was not the best example
for the millions of teenagers who soon came to buy her music.

That could have been an excellent year for redemption but it was
not such a thing. The death of his beloved grandmother was a
premonition. Although a new tattoo that said "Blake" adorned his
chest, Alex Claire held for nine months, the heart of the singer, in
addition, the success of Back to Black was a double-edged sword.
Amy, who until then could keep their excesses with relative
discretion, became the overnight in a face whose progressive
degradation many paparazzi constantly portrayed. in
consequence began her dramatic history of cancellations and
rudeness.

In January 2007 she appeared completely drunk on stage at the
GAY Part and vomited at the end of the first theme.
In May of that same year she married Blake in Miami in
November was awarded the Artist Choice at the MTV Europe
Music Awards. This success did not seem to awake the
enthusiasm of the singer, whose only word to those attending the
gala was a terse "thanks.

The year 2008 seemed to start well for Amy. The Grammy
ceremony was another triumphant tour of London, who,
however, was unable to attend the show live because her visa was
denied. Amy won five of the six awards they postulated her: best
pop vocal album, best female vocal performance, best new artist,
best song of the Year (Rehab) and best album. But in July she had
to be admitted to a hospital, said that because of pulmonary
emphysema, a disease that would end the career of any singer.
Although her father denied such news, the pictures taken by
reporters showed a completely deteriorated Amy.

6. In the summer concerts of touring Rock In Rio show the public
could see a diminished dramatically Amy in their vocal abilities.
Static on the stage, tune and staring (if not completely drink the
scale as in Portuguese), completed its annual commitments as she
could, after canceling concerts by her agency had to pay large
amounts in compensation. Just turned twenty-five years, it was
said that Britain was immersed in the composition of which
would be her third album. In the interviews said she was excited
by the upcoming release of her husband, with whom she hoped
"to have five children."

But neither the children or the third album had never arrived. The
deteriorated relationship with Blake, Amy Winehouse introduced
in 2009 for a divorce and went rolling down the rise of alcohol
and drugs, starring in one scandal after another. In June 2009 he
was tried for assaulting a fan, in August 2010, her conduct in a
ceremony officiated by inauguration king of the Zulus was
shameful, it must be added to the occasions, the victim of the
paparazzi, appear in press photos of her drunk. Already in 2011, a
month before her death, completely drugged presented a concert
in Belgrade, starring in an embarrassing spectacle that forced the
cancellation of the rest of the functions. On July 23, 2011 was
found dead in her apartment in the London Borough of Camden.
Like other music legends (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix or Janis
Joplin), was 27.