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Amy Winehouse - Wikipedia. Amy Jade Winehouse (1. September 1. 98. 3 – 2. July 2. 01. 1) was an English singer and songwriter. She was known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul[1][2][3] (sometimes labelled as blue- eyed soul and neo soul),[4][5]rhythm and blues,[6][7][8] and jazz.[9][1. Winehouse's debut album, Frank (2. UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize.

Her follow- up album, Back to Black (2. Grammy Awards, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made her the first British woman to win five Grammys,[1.

General Field "Big Four" Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Winehouse won three Ivor Novello Awards: in 2. Best Contemporary Song for "Stronger Than Me"; in 2. Best Contemporary Song again, this time for "Rehab"; and in 2. Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing Game." She also won the 2. Brit Award for Best British Female Artist, having been nominated for Best British Album, with Back to Black.

Winehouse died of alcohol intoxication on 2. July 2. 01. 1, aged 2. Her album Back to Black posthumously became, for a time, the UK's best- selling album of the 2. Early life. Amy Winehouse was born in Chase Farm Hospital, in north London, to Jewish parents. Her father, Mitchell "Mitch" Winehouse, was a window panel installer[1.

Janis Winehouse (née Seaton),[1. Winehouse's ancestors were Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants to London. Amy had an older brother, Alex (born 1. London's Southgate area, where she attended Osidge Primary School.[1. Winehouse as a child attended a Jewish Sunday school.[2. After she rose to fame, during an interview she expressed her dismissal towards the school by saying that she used to beg her father to allow her not to go and that she learnt nothing about being Jewish by going anyway.[2. In the same interview, Winehouse said she only went to a synagogue once a year on Yom Kippur "out of respect".[2.

Many of Winehouse's maternal uncles were professional jazz musicians.[2. Amy's paternal grandmother, Cynthia, was a singer and dated the English jazz saxophonist Ronnie Scott.[2. She and Amy's parents influenced Amy's interest in jazz.[2. Her father, Mitch, often sang Frank Sinatra songs to her, and whenever she got chastised at school, she would sing "Fly Me to the Moon" before going up to the headmistress to be told off.[2.

Winehouse's parents separated when she was nine,[2. Hatfield Heath, Essex, on weekends. In 1. 99. 2, her grandmother Cynthia suggested that Amy attend the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School, where she went on Saturdays to further her vocal education and to learn to tap dance.[2.

She attended the school for four years and founded a short- lived rap group called Sweet 'n' Sour, with Juliette Ashby, her childhood friend,[2. Sylvia Young Theatre School. Winehouse was allegedly expelled at 1. Sylvia Young has denied this—"She changed schools at 1. I've heard it said she was expelled; she wasn't. I'd never have expelled Amy"[3. Mitch Winehouse.[1.

She also appeared in an episode of The Fast Show, 1. Sylvia Young School[3. Mount School, Mill Hill; the BRIT School in Selhurst, Croydon; Osidge JMI School and then Ashmole School.[3.

Musical career. Early career. After toying around with her brother Alex's guitar, Winehouse bought her own when she was 1. Soon after, she began working for a living, including, at one time, as an entertainment journalist for the World Entertainment News Network, in addition to singing with local group the Bolsha Band.[1.

In July 2. 00. 0, she became the featured female vocalist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra; her influences were to include Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington,[3. Amy's best friend, soul singer Tyler James, sent her demo tape to an A& R person.[2. Winehouse signed to Simon Fuller's 1. Management in 2. 00. While being developed by the management company, she was kept as a recording industry secret[3.

Cobden Club. Her future A& R representative at Island, Darcus Beese, heard of her by accident when the manager of The Lewinson Brothers showed him some productions of his clients, which featured Winehouse as key vocalist. When he asked who the singer was, the manager told him he was not allowed to say. Having decided that he wanted to sign her, it took several months of asking around for Beese to eventually discover who the singer was. However, Winehouse had already recorded a number of songs and signed a publishing deal with EMI by this time.

Incidentally, she formed a working relationship with producer Salaam Remi through these record publishers.[3. Beese introduced Winehouse to his boss, Nick Gatfield, and the Island head shared his enthusiasm in signing the young artist. Winehouse was signed to Island, as rival interest in Winehouse had started to build to include representatives of EMI and Virgin starting to make moves. Beese told Hit. Quarters that he felt the reason behind the excitement, over an artist who was an atypical pop star for the time, was due to a backlash against reality TV music shows, which included audiences starved for fresh, genuine young talent.[3. Debut album Frank. Winehouse performing live in July 2. Winehouse's debut album, Frank, was released on 2.

October 2. 00. 3. Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, many songs were influenced by jazz and, apart from two covers, Winehouse co- wrote every song. The album received positive reviews[4. Mad Money Movie Watch Online. Sarah Vaughan,[4. Macy Gray and others.[9]The album entered the upper levels of the UK album chart in 2. Brit Awards in the categories of "British Female Solo Artist" and "British Urban Act." It went on to achieve platinum sales.[4.

Later in 2. 00. 4, she and Remi won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song, for their first single together, "Stronger Than Me."[4. The album was also shortlisted for the 2. Mercury Music Prize. In the same year, she performed at the Glastonbury Festival – Jazzworld, the V Festival and the Montreal International Jazz Festival (7 July 2. Club Soda). After the release of the album, Winehouse commented that she was "only 8. Island Records had over- ruled her preferences for the songs and mixes to be included.[2.

Further singles from the album were "Take the Box," "In My Bed"/"You Sent Me Flying" and "Pumps"/"Help Yourself."2. Back to Black and touring. In contrast to her jazz- influenced former album, Winehouse's focus shifted to the girl groups of the 1. Winehouse hired New York singer Sharon Jones's longtime band, the Dap- Kings, to back her up in the studio and on tour.[4. Watch Green Street Hooligans Online Green Street Hooligans Full Movie Online. Mitch Winehouse relates in Amy, My Daughter how fascinating watching her process was: her perfectionism in the studio and how she would put what she had sung on a CD and play it in his taxi outside to know how most people would hear her music.

In May 2. 00. 6, Winehouse's demo tracks such as "You Know I'm No Good" and "Rehab" appeared on Mark Ronson's New York radio show on East Village Radio. These were some of the first new songs played on the radio after the release of "Pumps" and both were slated to appear on her second album. The 1. 1- track album, completed in five months, was produced entirely by Salaam Remi and Ronson, with the production credits being split between them.

Ronson said in a 2. Winehouse because she was blunt when she did not like his work.[4. She in turn thought that when they first met, he was a sound engineer and that she was expecting an older man with a beard. Promotion of Back to Black soon began and, in early October 2. Winehouse's official website was relaunched with a new layout and clips of previously unreleased songs.[4. Back to Black was released in the UK on 3. October 2. 00. 6.

It went to number one on the UK Albums Chart for two weeks in January 2. February. In the US, it entered at number seven on the Billboard 2. It was the best- selling album in the UK of 2. Winehouse at the Avalon in Boston, Massachusetts, 2. The album spawned a number of hit singles.

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