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- Amy Winehouse - Artist Profile -

Singer Amy Winehouse cuts a delicate and fragile figure. Her large beehive detracting away from her diminutive frame. Unsteady, dazed and out of it, she is barely able to give a performance these days. It's a long cry from her early years at Stage school. As an ambitious teenager, with her sights firmly fixed on stardom, she said all she wanted to do, with the power of her voice, was to make people forget their troubles for a short while. The shoe is now on the other foot, as it is her audience and fans that worry about her.

As a happy and well rounded teenager, Amy's world fell apart when her father found love with another woman. Leaving his wife and the family home, and his princess behind had a devastating effect upon her. I think it is then that things started to fall apart emotionally for Amy. She bears the scars which come from a broken home, and scars that stay with her throughout her tumultuous and self destructive life so far.

As a child, Amy would spend many a happy hour singing along to the old tunes with her father. They would sing a' long to the likes of Tamla Motown, soul and other typical styles of music of the 1960's, and it is from these musical sessions with her father that Amy's love of music was born. She developed a particular love of the Crooners', Sinatra and Count Basie to name but a few and she won a scholarship to attend the Sylvia Young Theatre School', and was well on her way on the road to success.

As a teenager Amy's voice was developing fast and it had an amazing warmth and soul to it. The principal of the theatre school which Amy attended, Sylvia Young, said of Amy, that she thought she had a Judy Garland on her hands. The strength and tone of the remarkable voice of Amy Winehouse was making its mark in the world of music at an early age and Amy was quickly snapped up by Island records at the age of 15 and signed up deal. She was reminiscent of Billie Holliday to listen to and she also had that relaxed and easy style of singing which was compelling to hear.

Amy moved up to Camden, London to mix with the other rock and pop singers there. Camden was a musical hub of activity and Amy would sing at the local pubs to gain experience.

These days, the harsh reality of Amy Winehouse, is that she is suffering from emphysema, a dangerous condition of the lungs. She is a self confessed crack addict, amongst the many other drugs she dabbles recreationally in. Amy is Heavy drinker and doomed to a path of pure

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