Five Grammys for Amy

The star of the Grammy Awards

Amy in the detox, Amy in jail, drug video with Amy, no visa for Amy - who alone knows the headlines of the past few months, could think Amy Winehouse is especially famous for one thing: your alcohol and drug excesses.

Now, finally, their music was in the center again: At the Grammy Awards Winehouse cleared away from five of the coveted trophies, including the Grammy for the song of the year and the best pop album. At the big gala in Los Angeles, however, the soul diva was missing - she was connected live from a London club.

May she enter? Or do the US authorities deny her the visa? The media had been asking this question last week - the US does not let anyone who has been recorded for drug abuse go into the country. In the end she was allowed to - and did not want to. Their management spoke of "logistical" and "temporal issues" - Winehouse is in the process of taking a detox.

At the award ceremony, it was in the end again to Amy, the drugs and the music: On a live circuit Winehouse sang her hit "Rehab" - in the song is about drug withdrawal.



Your look

High cheekbones, long black hair, dramatically uptrodden, plus lush black eye make-up - Amy Winehouse is not a sweet pop doll, but a diva, you can see at first glance.

Again and again, the character of her character: The match-thin singer fights against anorexia and bulimia. Her own fragility contrasts with seafarer tattoos on her arms and a piercing on her lip.

Your way

On September 14, 1983 Amy Winehouse was born in North London, the father taxi driver, the mother pharmacist. Her father teaches her jazz, she learns to play the guitar from her mother. Her parents split when she is nine.



With her friend Juliet, she founded the rap band "Sweet n 'Sour" - at that time she is just ten years old. She attends the "Sylvia Young's Stage School" for up-and-coming artists, but soon gets together with the school management. At 16, she gets her first recording contract.

In 2003 she released her debut album "Frank", in which she processed the separation from her boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil. Three years later, she succeeds with "Back To Black" the big breakthrough - and 2007 is followed by private happiness. Winehouse and Fielder-Civil come together again and get married. However, the couple is already making headlines with alleged marital problems.

Your music

Music journalists worldwide celebrate Amy Winehouse as the soul's new great hope, comparing it to Aretha Franklin. Distinctive: the smoky voice of the soul-brat - and her outspoken, strongly autobiographical lyrics, which gave her albums "Explicit Lyrics" -Sticker.

On her debut "Frank" she combined jazzy ballads with hip-hop beats. The sound of their current album "Back to Black" is more inspired by Sixtys Girl groups like the Supremes and a catchy mix of soul, pop and R & B.



Your drugs

Amy is considered a female Pete Doherty, her drug excesses make at least as many headlines as her music. For example, the planned US tour had to be canceled at short notice after Amy collapsed at a concert in a London club - diagnosis: total exhaustion. The media speculated about drug excesses. In fact, Winehouse and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil were admitted to a clinic in August 2007 - but they fled after only a few days. In October, she was forced to spend a night in a Norwegian jail for being caught with seven grams of marijuana. Initially, the US authorities refused her entry to the Grammy Awards.

Winehouse is openly committed to alcohol and drugs: In her song "Addicted" she sings about a guy bursting into the apartment with her and wasted her entire supply of grass, in "Rehab" is that she because of their drinking in one Rehabilitation clinic should be instructed ("They try to make me go to rehab, I say no, no, no"). Her favorite drink: the "Rickstasy", mixed with three parts of vodka and one part each of Southern Comfort, Baileys and banana liqueur.

Amy Winehouse about ...

... alcohol: "I like to celebrate and like to relax with a few drinks."

... Depression: "Maybe it would not be bad to be a little less sad and unstable, people who are just happy and in a good mood, I find uninteresting only children and stupid can go through life completely carefree."

... Anorexia: "It may be that I overdid it for a while, but it's not always the intention, if I do not eat all day, if you drink a lot, sometimes you forget to eat regularly as well."

... her career: "I do not know how many records I sold or how rich I am.At the moment, it's definitely enough. "

... Country Life: "The only thing the people in the countryside do is ranting around in the area and eating what they got before the gun, I need to live a gym and a Jamaican restaurant!"

... the separation from her boyfriend Blake, whom she has married in the meantime: "When it was over, I only cleaned for days, every tile, over and over again, with a toothbrush - do not think about it, do not think about it!"

The inspiration for their songs: "Sometimes I'm worried that I could go out with a livelier life, the stuff for the songs."

Amy Winehouse gets Five Grammys (March 2024).



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