The success and excesses of the soul singer
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On 23 July 2011, Amy Winehouse died at the age of 27 as Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain. The infamous “Club 27”. Among the exponents of the new generation of white soul, she is found lifeless in her bed. Born on September 14, 1983 in Enfield, a borough of London, at an early age she showed that she preferred music to studying. At ten he founded an amateur rap group. At twelve she attended Sylvia Young Theater School, but after only one year she was expelled for her poor profit. In ’99 he joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, where he sang as a professional for the first time. Three years later, after friend and soul singer Tyler James sent a demo of her to a talent scout, Amy signs with the Island / Universal record label. The discographic debut comes in 2003 with the album “Frank”, which immediately received excellent successes from both critics and audiences. With its over 300,000 copies sold, it obtains a platinum record. Back in public at the end of 2006 with the new work “Back to black”. The first single to be extracted from the album is “Rehab”, which immediately throws the album into the English top ten. The third and final album, “Lioness: Hidden Treasures”, was released posthumously in December 2011. Her life is wild, marked by excesses and drug and alcohol abuse. On June 18, 2011, just a month before her death, Amy Winehouse performs in Belgrade completely drunk. The show, which was supposed to relaunch the British singer, turns out to be a disaster. It is his last public appearance.
July 23, 2021 – Updated July 23, 2021, 10:18 pm
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