Artist: Amy Winehouse
Genre(s):
Blues
Jazz
Pop
Discography:
Back To Black (Deluxe) CD2
Year: 2007
Tracks: 8
Back To Black (Deluxe) CD1
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Back To Black (Deluxe Edition) cd2
Year: 2007
Tracks: 8
Back to Black
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Frank
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Much derriere be aforesaid nearly Amy Winehouse, one of the U.K.'s flagship vocalists during the 2000s. The British compact and tabloids seemed to focus on her hooligan behavior and heavy consumption of inebriant, just fans and critics likewise embraced her rugged magic spell, nervy signified of wit, and distinctively soulful and jazzy vocals. Her platinum-selling breakthrough album, Dog (2003), elicited comparisons ranging from Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan to Macy Gray and Lauryn Hill. Interestingly enough, despite her unshakable cockney speech pattern and patois, 1 can oft find prohibited aspects of each of those singers' outspoken repertoire in Winehouse's have voice. Nonetheless, her allurement has been her songwriting -- nearly always profoundly personal, simply best known for its profanity and brutal candor.
Born to a taxi-driving padre and chemist mother, Winehouse grew up in the Southgate area of northern London. Her fostering was encircled by jazz. Many of the uncles on her mother's side were professional jazz musicians, and even her paternal nan was romantically involved with British jazz legend Ronnie Scott at one time. While at house, she listened to and absorbed her parents' excerpt of greats: Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra among others. However, in her teens, she was drawn to the rebellious spirit of TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and other American R&B and rap music acts of the prison term.
At the age of 16, after she had been expelled from London's Sylvia Young Theatre School, she caught her number one bust when pour down singer Tyler James, a schoolfellow and close friend, passed on her demonstration tape to his A&R, world Health Organization was trenchant for a jazz singer. That opportunity lED to her recording contract with Island Records. By the close of 2003, when she was 20 years old, Island had released her debut album, Dog. With contributions from rap music producer/keyboardist Salaam Remi, Winehouse's amalgam of jazz, pour down, soul, and rap received rave reviews. The album was nominative for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize as well as two Brit awards, and its lead-in exclusive, "Stronger Than Me," north Korean won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song.
Following Winehouse's debut, the accolades and inquiring interviews appeared concurrently in the press with her wild public life. Several multiplication she showed up to her night club or TV performances also drunk to babble out a whole rig. In 2006, her management company last suggested that she enter rehab for alcohol maltreat, simply alternatively, she dumped the company and canned the ordeal into the U.K. Top Ten hit "Rehab," the lead individual for her s, critically acclaimed record album, Back to Black. Containing remindful productions from Salaam Remi and British DJ/multi-instrumentalist Mark Ronson, the album jolly abandoned jazz, delving into the sounds of '50s/'60s-era young lady grouping harmonies, stone & roll, and soul. The fanfare over the going was so great that it started to spill over onto U.S. shores; several rappers and DJs made their possess remixes of respective songs -- not to reference covers by Prince and the Arctic Monkeys.
One month after Winehouse north Korean won Best Female Artist at the Brit Awards in February 2007, Universal released Back to Black in the U.S. The LP charted higher than whatsoever other American debut by a British female transcription artist earlier it, and it remained in the Top Ten for several months, marketing a million copies by the end of that summer. Just as in the U.K., she became the verbalize of the townsfolk, landing on the covers of Rolling Stone and Spin magazines. Not long later, though, Winehouse canceled her North American tour. Early reports revealed that she was entering rehab for alcohol and drug addiction, simply her new management denied the claims, stating it was due to spartan enfeeblement. Her temperamental behaviour unbroken her and her new husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, always in the tabloids and on and off stages on both sides of the Atlantic, simply in late 2007 American fans were finally apt a prospect to listen Winehouse's other work, with a slightly brief (two songs removed and ane added) rendering of Wiener.
