Whether or not she remained sober for a period of time or has curtailed her drug and alcohol use is a matter of conjecture, but it seems clear that she is still struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. You go on YouTube and find videos of celebrities like Amy Winehouse behaving badly under the influence of drugs.
You watch entertainment television shows and see Lindsay Lohan drunkenly stumbling and stuttering. Or does the wrecked spectacle they create discourage people from following in their footsteps? All Rights Reserved. Confidential and Private Call: Privacy Policy. In her application, she wrote: "I would say that my school life and school reports are filled with 'could do betters' and 'does not work to her full potential.
To sing in lessons without being told to shut up … But mostly I have this dream to be very famous. To work on stage. It's a lifelong ambition. I want people to hear my voice and just…forget their troubles for five minutes. Read more : 10 soul greats who came before Adele. The headmistress was amazed by Amy's talent: "It is hard to overstate just how much she struck me as unique, both as a composer and performer, from the moment she first came through the doors at the age of 13, sporting the same distinctive hairstyle that she has now.
Her abilities could put her in the same league as Judy Garland or Ella Fitzgerald. She could be one of the greats," Sylvia Young remembered years later. Amy was overjoyed when she was inducted into London's well-known talent factory.
Amy Winehouse was only 19 when she signed her first record deal. A year later, her debut album "Frank" was released in and immediately reached number 3 on the British charts. Not only did Amy sing, she also wrote about her life.
On Frank she processed the relationship with her ex-boyfriend. Amy was a white woman with a black soul voice, the critics enthused.
The idiosyncratic singer also adapted a sixties fashion aesthetic with trademark beehive hairstyle and thick eyeliner. But her mega success was coupled with increasing discomfort on stage and a fear of performing in front of large audiences. Perhaps to compensate, she began to roam the clubs and bars after concerts and drowned the pressure to perform in alcohol. Read more : Beehive hairstyle inventor dies, aged On one of her pub crawls, Amy met the heroin-addicted Blake Fielder-Civil and instantly fell for him.
With her new lover she plunged more and more often into drug and alcohol excesses. When he left her after a few months, Winehouse was devastated and sang about their tumultuous relationship on the album Back To Black. The album earned her five Grammy awards and finally made her a world star. But it was the song "Rehab" — about the unsuccessful attempt by her father and her manager to put Winehouse in a rehabilitation clinic — that dominated the charts.
She wrote the song in a couple of hours and it became an anthem for a generation of young tortured souls. Eighteen months after the split, Blake Fielder-Civil knocked on Winehouse's door again. The two married, but the relationship was fraught. They divorced around two years later in Winehouse's career was concurrently stalling. She often staggered drunk on stage and her once powerful voice sounded weak and hollow. Audiences booed her. Concerts were stopped and whole tours were canceled — for "health reasons," said her management.
But everyone knew that Amy Winehouse had a massive alcohol problem. On July 23, , her bodyguard found her dead in her London apartment. Amy Winehouse's ex-husband has told of his regret at introducing her to hard drugs — but has claimed her addiction worsened when they were apart.
Blake Fielder-Civil said the two of them spent only four months in which they were taking drugs together as "addicts", owing to his spells in prison. He spoke as a guest on Wednesday's edition of ITV's Jeremy Kyle Show, in which he told of his tears and disbelief when prison staff told him Winehouse had died. Fielder-Civil — who was married to the singer for two years — said of their heroin and crack use: "Out of maybe a six- or seven-year relationship that me and Amy had on and off, there was drug use for about four months together.
She argues this is something that is often overlooked — adding that people wrongly assume Amy just got worse and worse. In her last six months or so, she really improved. She was starting to think about work again. And according to Jane, it was when Amy was working that she least struggled with addiction. Her habit saw her frequently using heroin and crack cocaine. Most of the time, work really helped her. Quiet periods can be quite dangerous for someone who has an addiction.
If Amy was anything, she was indefatigably driven. A snippet from an application form she submitted for the eminent Sylvia Young Theater School at the age of 12, perfectly encapsulates this unwavering ambition. I want people to hear my voice and just Enjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a day free trial.
Just 19 when she signed her first record deal, she went on to achieve her dreams, with Back to Black — an album about her rollercoaster relationship — winning her five Grammy awards. But this same determination appears to have also made it very difficult to convince Amy to relinquish the booze and the drugs. She was a very strong-willed person. She felt she could do things on her own.
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