Amy Winehouse Biography

Amy-Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English soul, jazz, and R&B singer and songwriter. Winehouse"s debut album, Frank (released in 2003) was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Winehouse is a two-time Ivor Novello Award winner; once in 2004 for her debut single "Stronger than Me" and again in May 2007 for the first single "Rehab" from her 2006 album Back to Black. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist (she had also been nominated for Best British Album). On 17 July, Back to Black was announced as one of the 12 albums on the 2007 shortlist of Mercury Prize nominees and later that year she was nominated for three MTV Video Music Awards.

About Lyrics:

In fact Winehouse"s lyrics are almost as remarkable as that voice. There"s so much maturity and depth here that it"s hard to believe that she isn"t yet out of her teens. Fuck Me Pumps is a witty and devastating portrait of "women of a certain age" who go out on the town with the express intention to pull a footballer, and I Heard Love Is Blind is a startlingly honest admission of cheating on her boyfriend with his lookalike ("I was thinking of you when I came").

Early life and musical influences:

Winehouse was born in the district of Southgate located in Enfield, London to an English-Jewish family with a history of jazz musicians. Her father, Mitchell Winehouse, is a taxi driver, and her mother, Janis, is a pharmacist. She has one brother, Alex Winehouse. She grew up in the suburb of Southgate, and attended Ashmole School. At around the age of 10, Winehouse founded a short-lived amateur rap group called Sweet "n" Sour, as Sour. She described the group as "the little white Jewish Salt "n" Pepa". She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School when she was 12 years old but was expelled at 13 for "not applying herself" and piercing her own nose. She later attended the BRIT School in Selhurst, Croydon. Winehouse received her first guitar at age 13. By age 16, she was singing professionally after her friend, soul singer Tyler James, gave her demo tape to an A&R person. She signed to her current record label, Island/Universal, under management company 19 Management,[4] Simon Fuller"s management company.

Amy"s Most Popular Interview:

JAZZ singer Amy Winehouse is young, good-looking and a hugely talented singer/songwriter with two Brit Award nominations under her belt. But a quick listen to the 20-year-old Londoner"s album Frank – a smooth blend of jazz and hip-hop – shows she"s not quite perfect girlfriend material. Almost the entire record is dedicated to her ex-boyfriend, with Amy labelling him a "lady boy" on the opening number and giving a vivid description of why sleeping around is OK by track five. "I just see monogamy in a different way to most people," the star told us in an exclusive interview. "I don"t think it"s a terrible thing to have sex with someone else. I think it"s much worse to substitute the man in your life with another person. "It"s hard to explain but things like taking another man to your mum"s house or going out shopping with him are so rude, and worse than kissing him. "Sex is just sex, but you should never let anyone else get close." But what about the man who was so close to Amy he inspired most of her output? The guy whose shortcomings we now know so much about? Amy still talks to him occasionally but, needless to say, he"s not his ex-girlfriend"s biggest fan. She says: "He"s a very proud man and I know he won"t go and buy the album. We were together when I"d written some stuff, but I don"t think he"s listened to some of the less-flattering songs I wrote later on. "He did say to me, "how wo

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