I´m going to talk about a famous English singer-songwriter called Amy Jade Winehouse born 14 September of 1983 in Enfield, London. The first time I listened to her music was on the MTV channel and the song was "Rehab". The truth is that I liked it so much that I decided to buy her cd "Back to black". A good decision I think because I love jazz and blues and she has an incredible voice. However, I have to say that I don´t like her attitude (she is always having problems with drugs, alcohol, depression and eating disorders) and I think that she probably would be criticised less if she left those kind of things at home because the polemic is not always good for her(besides the press is destroying her life). In fact, many people know about her because of her life and her strange and distinctive style like a pin-up and not because of her music. Unfortunately, she probably will have a short career if she continues living like this.
Anyway, I find her music really good and her lyrics very sentimental as she always talks about love and she express different ways of living it. Her first CD, called "Frank", was more personal than the second one that is more commercial and famous too. Besides, Amy has won practically all the music awards, including MTV awards, BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist, six Grammy Award and Ivor Novello Award twice for example.
The truth is that she started really early to show that music was the reason of her life. In fact, only when she was ten years old, she had a short-lived rap group called Sweet 'n' Sour with childhood friend Juliette Ashby. After, she worked as a "showbiz journalist" for the World Entertainment News Network but her boyfriend sent a demo of her voice to Island/Universal getting the chance to show her talent. Amy entered at number seven on the Billboard 200 in the United States and by October, the album got 5 platinum CD in the UK, making it the best-selling album of 2007 and the top iTunes album in the UK in 2007.
Apart from her succesful career, I think that the most important things in her life are love (she got married at the age of 24 with Blake Fielder-Civil ), family (her father is always with her trying to protect her) and her music. Likewise, she has demonstrated that she doesn´t care about what others say about her, but the bad side of this is that she is always offering a self-destructive behaviour and this is not good for her or her family. However she has stayed twice in a detox clinic and it seems that she tries to stop having drugs.
It´s clear that she is different from the rest of singers and she has triumphed,at least with her music. Nowadays, her husband is in jail but she has a lot of projects like singing with Pete Doherty (Kate Moss´s ex-boyfriend), making her next CD or a duet with George Michael.
4 comments:
I think that it would be important for her and for her carreer if she gives up drugs.
I don't know very well this singer, but I see in the TV that she is very controversy. I don't like very much this kind of music but I have to say that she has a very nice voice.
She is probably a good singer but she has to give up with drugs if she wants to continue to be a well-known singer.
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