Amy Winehouse Biography
Saturday 6 August 2011 by admin
Amy Jade Winehouse was built-in in Enfield to parents Mitchell, a auto driver, and Janis, a pharmacist. She has one earlier brother, Alex. Growing up in the Southgate breadth of Enfield, Winehouse went to Southgate Academy and again Ashmole School. She was alien to music at an aboriginal age by her parents whose tastes ran from Carole King and James Taylor to the applesauce abstract her ancestor favoured. At age 10, Winehouse and a acquaintance formed a brief rap bandage declared Sweet and Sour and again at 12, Winehouse entered the Sylvia Young Theatre School.
Her aboriginal besom with altercation came aloof two years afterwards aback she was expelled for “not applying herself” and acute her nose. At about the aforementioned time Winehouse began to agreement with song writing. Conventional academy did not aftermost connected either and Amy eventually alone out, demography up part-time assignment that included a assignment singing with a applesauce band.
At 16, her abutting acquaintance Tyler James, a body singer, anesthetized her admirers bandage to an A&R person. The move led to Winehouse signing with 19 Management, the administration aggregation endemic by Simon Fuller, the man abaft American Idol. With this able backing, Winehouse active to almanac characterization Island/Universal and eventually accustomed a publishing accord with EMI. Winehouse assassin a abetment band, the Dap-Kings, who had connected been acknowledging Fresh York accompanist Sharon Jones and set about autograph and recording her aboriginal album.
In aboriginal 2003, Winehouse met Blake Fielder-Civil, a music video assembly assistant, at a bounded bar. The two began a bitter accord and Winehouse had his name tattooed over her heart.
Winehouse’s debut, 'Frank', was appear on 20 October, 2003. The album’s jazz, pop, body and hip-hop blend, calm with its world-wise lyrics were accustomed able-bodied by critics and prompted allegory with a host of artists, from Sarah Vaughan and Macy Gray to Billie Anniversary and Lauryn Hill. Apart from two covers, every song on the anthology was co-written by Winehouse and it apparent the alpha of her accord with ambassador Salaam Remi.
Frank was nominated for two Brit Awards for British Female Solo Act and British Urban Act. Winehouse additionally won the celebrated Ivor Novello Accolade for Best Contemporary Song for 'Stronger Than Me'. On the aback of the album’s success, Winehouse performed at Glastonbury on the Jazzworld date and at the V Festival.
In 2005, Winehouse teamed up with ambassador Mark Ronson and began autograph her additional anthology afterwards an 18-month song-writing hiatus. Winehouse said Ronson’s captivation was so adorning she wrote the anthology in six months.
As her acclaim grew, so did belief in the columnist about her lifestyle. Her weight was a accurate focus with the once-curvy accompanist actualization to bead several dress sizes in 2006. Winehouse told an accuser her fresh abbreviate accessory was due to acid aback on marijuana use.
Winehouse’s agitated accord with Fielder-Civil was the agitator for abundant of her annihilative behaviour. During one alienation Winehouse accustomed to drowning her sorrows in booze but she additionally acclimated the heart-break as catalyst in autograph her fresh album. Her biologic and booze assimilation more afflicted her alive performances, as she angry up to several club or TV performances too bashed to complete her set. Her administration aggregation appropriate she access adjust but rather than booty their admonition Winehouse dumped the administration aggregation and angry the acquaintance into the catchiest song on her fresh album- “They approved to put me into rehab. I said, ‘No, no, no’...”
Winehouse afterwards told The Sun bi-weekly she did go to adjust but did not aftermost long: “I did, for aloof 15 minutes. I went in and said, ‘Hello’ and explained that I alcohol because I'm in adulation and accept f****** up the relationship. Again I absolved out."
In January 2006, Ronson played aboriginal versions of the soon-to-be-hits 'Rehab' and 'Wake Up Alone' on his radio appearance on Fresh York’s East Village Radio. In backward October of 2006, Winehouse’s additional album, 'Back To Black', was released. The album, with aggregate assembly credits for Remi and Ronson, represented a move abroad from applesauce and drew on 1950’s girl-group harmonies, soul, and bedrock ‘n’ roll. The anthology was a massive success. It hit cardinal one on the UK archive and debuted at cardinal seven on the US Billboard 200.
'Rehab', the aboriginal distinct off the album, hit cardinal seven on the UK archive and won Winehouse her additional Ivor Novello accolade for song writing. The anthology won anthology of the year at the MTV Europe Music Awards and Best Pop Vocal Anthology and Best Fresh Artisan at the 2008 Grammy Awards. Adjust won abundant awards including Grammys for Almanac of the Year and Song of the Year. Time annual rated Adjust as the best song of 2007 praising Winehouse as “mouthy, funny, sultry, and absolutely possibly crazy". "It's absurd not to be absorbed by her originality. Combine it with assembly by Mark Ronson that references four decades account of body music afterwards already ripping it off, and you've got the best song of 2007,’’ it raved. Aback To Black was the top-selling anthology in the UK in 2007 for both over-the-counter and iTunes sales. Several added singles were appear from the anthology and all charted well. In backward 2007, Winehouse’s admission anthology Frank was appear in the United States, debuting at cardinal 61 on the Billboard charts.
In aboriginal 2007, Winehouse and Fielder-Civil concluded relationships with added ally and got aback together. In May, the brace were affiliated in Miami, Florida with Winehouse cogent Rolling Stone magazine, “I apperceive I'm accomplished but I wasn't put actuality to sing. I was put actuality to be a wife and a mum and accessory afterwards my family.” In June of that year, Winehouse, who has accustomed to problems with abasement and self-harm, was apparent in a video assuming for a columnist while abrading “I adulation Blake’’ on her abdomen with a atom of burst glass.
Two months afterwards she was rushed to hospital in London adversity from “exhaustion”, admitting she afterwards accustomed it was a biologic overdose. Anon after, Winehouse and Blake-Fielder arrested into a rehabilitation retreat in Essex, England, but arrested out a few canicule afterwards and went on anniversary in St Lucia.
On 23 August, the newly-weds had a acrimonious altercation in a London auberge allowance with the London affidavit accustomed photographs of a aching and bloodied Winehouse and a aching Fielder-Civil abrogation the hotel. Winehouse denied her bedmate had acquired the injuries, adage in emails that “I was acid myself afterwards he begin me in our allowance about to do drugs with a alarm babe and accurately said I wasn't acceptable abundant for him. I absent it.” The adventure acquired a massive activity with Fielder-Civil’s mother adage on radio, "I anticipate they both charge to get medical advice afore one of them, if not both of them, eventually will die."
The altercation connected into October with the brace actuality arrested in Norway for control of marijuana. In November, badge raided Winehouse’s London home and arrested Fielder-Civil on accuse of aggravating to debauchee the advance of justice. Badge declared Fielder-Civil had approved to pay off a attestant due to accord affidavit in an advance case he was complex in. Afterwards that month, with Blake in jail, Winehouse angry up to Birmingham concert bashed and emotionally distressed. She was booed by the admirers and the analyzer for the Birmingham Mail said the appearance consisted of “a chiefly accomplished artisan bargain to tears, barrier about the date and, unforgivably, swearing at the audience”. She afterwards annulled all added appearances for 2007 adage on her website: “I can't accord it my all onstage afterwards my Blake. My bedmate is aggregate to me and afterwards him it aloof isn't the same.”
On 22 January, 2008, The Sun bi-weekly appear footage of Winehouse allegedly smoker a able aqueduct and talking about demography beatitude and valium. She entered a adjust ability canicule afterwards with her almanac aggregation arising a account saying: “She has appear to accept that she requires specialist analysis to abide her advancing accretion from biologic addiction”.
Two weeks later, Winehouse won bristles categories at the 2008 Grammy Awards but acceptance complications arising from her biologic use prevented her from accessory in person. She accustomed via accessory from London and performed her hits 'You Apperceive That I’m No Good' and 'Rehab'.
Award success aside, 2008 was a memorable year for all the amiss affidavit for Winehouse. Added breakdowns and attempts at action by her ancestors accept all but bought promises of an aberrant career to a shuddering pause.
Her agitated alliance to Fielder-Civil has connected to adulterate to the point that he has requested a divorce, based on both claims of affair and additionally to 'save' the activity of his wife. They afar in August 2009.
Perhaps her ancestors and accompany were acquisitive the breach from Blake would animate her to accord up drugs, but acutely this was not to be. Although Winehouse put in a cardinal of performances in contempo years, she was booed off date or clumsy to complete her set on several occasions. In July 2010, she sang the hit clue Valerie alongside Mark Ronson at a blur premiere, but forgot some of the words.
The accompanist hit the account in June 2011 aback she opened what was declared to be a 12-date European bout in Belgrade. Winehouse appeared to be a adumbration of her above cocky and was booed off stage. The shambolic achievement sparked a storm of media criticism and it was appear anon afterwards that she would not be commutual the tour. This was to be the aftermost gig of her abbreviate career.
Amy was begin asleep in her Camden home by a affiliate of her aegis aggregation on 23 July 2011. The account of her afterlife has not yet been established.
Her parents appear a account adage they accept been larboard beggared by the 27-year-old's death, while her almanac aggregation Universal Republic said they are "deeply afflicted at the abrupt accident of such a able musician, artisan and performer".
A cardinal of celebrities accept paid accolade to the adverse brilliant in contempo days, with George Michael adage she should be remembered as one of the best accomplished singers and songwriters of our time.
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