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“What's her next song, getting out of Rehab and she says yea yea yea. Now shes back out and she gona do more heroin yea yea yea”
Nickname:
The new Courtney Love
Birthname:
Amy Jade Winehouse
Hometown:
Southgate, London, UK
Assets:
Silky smooth voice, dragon-lady tattoos
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Vices:
Having to be made to go to rehab, and replying no (three times)
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Job:
Singer, musician, songwriter
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Introduction
Amy Jade Winehouse is an English soul and jazz singer. Her debut album, Frank, was nominated for the Mercury Prize, which is usually reserved for anything Radiohead puts out, and occasionally the Super Furry Animals. The singer’s unfortunate bulimia, as well as her drug and alcohol problems became regular tabloid fodder in 2007. In turn, the tabloids inspired many to become bulimic, and start ingesting drugs and alcohol in copious amounts.
Life story
Amy Winehouse was born in the Southgate area of London to a family with a history of jazz musicians – an anomaly in an area primarily populated by chimney sweeps and Dickensian street urchins.
At age ten, Winehouse founded a short-lived rap group called Sweet 'n' Sour, which, we’d like to think, was an Asian tribute to Salt n’ Pepa. She received her first guitar when she was thirteen. She signed to her current record label Island/Universal under Simon Fuller’s management company 19 Management.
Her debut album, Frank, was released in October of 2003. Many songs had jazz-influences and, apart from two covers, every song was co-written by Winehouse. The album received positive reviews and brought comparisons of her voice to like likes of Macy Gray. The prospects of Winehouse doing a Target commercial jumped 1000%.
Her second album, Back to Black, went to number one on the UK albums chart numerous times, and entered at number seven on the Billboard 200. This was the highest debut entry for an album by a British female solo artist, only to be outdone two weeks later by Joss Stone who debuted at number two with Introducing Joss Stone. Winehouse took solace in the fact that she could beat the crap out of Stone.
Winehouse's wardrobe on her recent UK tour was sponsored by the clothing label Gio-Goi, and it has recently been rumored that she is to become the face of the label's 2007 Women's wear collection following in the footsteps of the Libertine’s Pete Doherty, who is the face of menswear. This would mark the first time that a line of clothing has actively sought out the poster children for substance abuse as its spokespeople. Maybe someone can learn a little something about marketing from the good folks at Benetton.
Since her rise to fame, Winehouse has been the subject of much media attention. On May 18, 2007 she married Blake Fielder-Civil in an unannounced ceremony in Miami. The marriage came as a surprise to fans and even family as the two had split two years earlier, the break-up inspiring several of the songs on Back to Black (the rest of the songs were inspired by the Dudley Moore film, Arthur).
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