Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983. Her hometown is Southgate. The girl’s parents were Jews, descendants of immigrants who previously lived in Russia. Mitchell's father worked in a taxi, and Janice's mother was a pharmacist. Their wedding took place in 1976, before the birth of a daughter, seven years remained. The future singer had an older brother named Alex, born in 1980. Amy's relatives have always been close to music, especially jazz. There is evidence that the singer’s grandmother in the 1940s met with the famous English singer Ronnie Scott. Also, some relatives played jazz professionally. 1993 was a tragic year for the singer’s family - the father and mother decided to divorce, but none of them subsequently forgot about the children, on the contrary, they tried to give them a full education. The biography of Amy Winehouse is still not surprising, but it's only for now ...
Sweet'n'Sour, Theater School, creating the first songs and getting a job
When the singer was 10 years old, she, together with her friend Juliet, organized a rap group called Sweet 'n' Sour, and two years later she was enrolled in the Theater School, whose leader was S. Young, but after a while she was expelled for poor studies and not good enough behavior.
However, Amy had good memories of that time. It is noteworthy that, together with her school friends, the girl starred in the passage of The Fast Show. When Amy was 14 years old, she created her first songs, it was also then that she was expelled from school, and for the first time she used illegal substances. A year later, she got a job in two places at once: in a jazz band and in WENN. Singer Amy Winehouse did not yet know that she would soon become famous.
Frank
In the fall of 2003, the first album, Frank, was released, produced by S. Remy. All songs were invented by Amy herself or co-authored with someone. The album also included two covers. Critics greeted Frank with open arms, he won the Brit nominations, was included in the list of finalists of the Mercury Prize music award, and soon became platinum. In 2003, Amy Winehouse also took part in the Glastonbury festival.
Back to black
The next album, called Back to Black, included several jazz tunes.
The singer decided on this under the impression of the creativity of women's groups, which were popular in the 50s and 60s.
Back to Black was released in England. This happened in the fall of 2006. The new album immediately took first place. Of note is the success on the Billboard chart. There he won the seventh place - it was a real record.
The incredible success of the album and song Rehab
Soon the album became platinum as much as five times, and after another 30 days it began to be called the bestseller of the current year. In addition, it was found that Back to Black has gained unprecedented fame among people using iTunes. The title track from an album called Rehab in the spring of 2007 was awarded by Ivor Novello and was announced as the most stunning contemporary single. It was an incredible success.
On June 21, seven days after the singer performed it at the MTV Movie Awards, the song finished ninth in America. Amy Winehouse's biography contains many joyful moments, isn't it?
Songs You Know I'm No Good and Back to Black
The next single, You Know I'm No Good, reached eighteenth place. As for the third song Back to Black, in the spring in England she took twenty-fifth position. In May 2007, the singer and her boyfriend Blake got married.
Rehabilitation center and anxious forebodings
At the end of summer, Amy Winehouse canceled performances in England and America due to poor health, and after a while she and her husband turned to a rehabilitation center in which the girl stayed for only five days. Dad was very excited about the situation and suggested that this could even come to a tragedy. Grandmother was worried that a married couple might one day commit suicide together. But the singer’s representative said that the annoying journalists who constantly follow Amy on the heels and turn her life into hell are to blame.
New disc and single
In late autumn, I Told You I Was Trouble: Live in London was released. And at the beginning of winter, a single called Love Is a Losing Game was released in America and Britain. Frank was released in the states 14 days earlier: he took the sixty-first position on Billboard and received positive reviews from journalists. Amy Winehouse's biography is the life story of a talented man who managed to achieve dizzying success.
Song Valerie, collaboration with M. Buena and the resumption of rehabilitation activities
At this time, the singer worked on the single Valerie, which was supposed to be included on Version M. Ronson's album. In the middle of autumn 2007, the song took second place in the UK. Soon, she was awarded the Brit Awards nomination as the best English single. In addition, Amy sang along with M. Buena, ex-Sugababes. Their song, entitled B Boy Baby, was released in early winter. A little later, the singer resumed rehabilitation activities for an improved program, which took place in the Caribbean cottage of B. Adams - a performer from Canada. A spokeswoman for Island Records said he might have to break the contract with Amy, but the label’s head Nick Gatfield literally shut his mouth, saying that he needed to wait until Winehouse ended a difficult period in his life. After all, she is incredibly talented, she conquered the United States. Looking at some photos of Amy Winehouse, you can guess that she had problems with drugs - not everywhere she looks good.
The success of the singer and producer, performance in Russia
Everyone remembered Gatfield's words when Back to Black was nominated for a Grammy six times, and the singer was declared the best new artist. As for Ronson, he was honored to be called the producer of the year.
The end of the winter of 2008 was marked by the fiftieth ceremony of the Grammy Awards. The singer won in several categories at once.
At the beginning of the summer of the same year, Amy Winehouse’s only performance was held in our country - she was invited to the capital to open the Center for Contemporary Culture called “The Garage”.
Scary diagnosis and cancellation of the tour
Soon, the singer was in the clinic, where she was diagnosed with "emphysema."
In early summer 2011, Amy canceled her tour of Europe after an incident in the capital of Serbia. She stood on the stage for a little over an hour, but during all this time she never performed a single song. The audience was extremely unhappy, and she left the hall.
Farewell to the singer
On July 23, 2011, Amy was found dead in her apartment on Camden Square in the capital of England.
Farewell to the singer took place in London on Saturday. The ceremony was held at a cemetery called Edgewury, and then her body was cremated.
About 400 people arrived at Amy Winehouse's funeral. Among those who came were the girl’s father and mother, producer M. Ronson, and performer C. Osborne. There was also the guy singer Reg Travis. On the head of Kelly Osbourne flaunted a gorgeous fleece. Amy loved this hairstyle very much. Some women came to the funeral, too, with a pile.
During the ceremony, people prayed in Hebrew and English, and at the end a song by K. King called So Far Away was sounded. Mitchell Winehouse said his daughter really liked this song.
What caused the death?
Investigator S. Radcliffe, who found out the cause of the death of the singer, found that she died due to an overdose of alcohol. This conclusion did not surprise anyone who knew Amy Winehouse.
Radcliffe said that the level of alcohol in the blood of the singer can be considered fatal. The nervous system of a person with such an overdose can suffer so much that he can simply fall asleep forever.
Before drinking, which killed the singer, for a long time she did not drink anything alcoholic.
No strange facts were found during the investigation. S. Radcliffe said that no one exerted pressure on the singer, and she drank alcohol of her own free will. And so the wonderful singer Amy Winehouse died, the cause of death of which turned out to be quite predictable.