chiglamour4u at 23-07-2011 07:24 PM (13 years ago)
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LONDON (AP) — Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.
Winehouse shot to fame with the album "Back to Black," whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse — with her black beehive hairdo and old-fashioned sailor tattoos — one of music's most recognizable stars.
Police confirmed that a 27-year-old female was pronounced dead at the home in Camden Square northern London; the cause of death was not immediately known. London Ambulance Services said Winehouse had died before the two ambulance crews it sent arrived at the scene.
An ambulance could be seen parked beneath the trees outside her London home, and the whole street was cordoned off by police tape. Officers kept onlookers away from the scene.
Last month, Winehouse canceled her European comeback tour after she swayed and slurred her way through barely recognizable songs in her first show in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Booed and jeered off stage, she flew home and her management said she would take time off to recover.
"I didn't go out looking to be famous," Winehouse told the Associated Press when "Back to Black" was released. "I'm just a musician."
But in the end, the music was overshadowed by fame, and by Winehouse's demons. Tabloids lapped up the erratic stage appearances, drunken fights, stints in hospital and rehab clinics. Performances became shambling, stumbling train wrecks, watched around the world on the Internet.
Born in 1983 to taxi driver Mitch Winehouse and his pharmacist wife Janis, Winehouse grew up in the north London suburbs, and was set on a showbiz career from an early age. When she was 10, she and a friend formed a rap group, Sweet 'n' Sour — Winehouse was Sour — that she later described as "the little white Jewish Salt 'n' Pepa."
She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, a factory for British music and acting moppets, later went to the Brit School, a performing arts academy in the "Fame" mold, and was originally signed to "Pop Idol" svengali Simon Fuller's 19 Management.
But Winehouse was never a packaged teen star, and always resisted being pigeonholed.
Her jazz-influenced 2003 debut album, "Frank," was critically praised and sold well in Britain. It earned Winehouse an Ivor Novello songwriting award, two Brit nominations and a spot on the shortlist for the Mercury Music Prize.
But Winehouse soon expressed dissatisfaction with the disc, saying she was "only 80 percent behind" the album.
"Frank" was followed by a slump during which Winehouse broke up with her boyfriend, suffered a long period of writer's block and, she later said, smoked a lot of marijuana.
"I had writer's block for so long," she said in 2007. "And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. .. I used to think, 'What happened to me?'
"At one point it had been two years since the last record and (the record company) actually said to me, 'Do you even want to make another record?' I was like, 'I swear it's coming.' I said to them, 'Once I start writing I will write and write and write. But I just have to start it.'"
Posted: at 23-07-2011 07:24 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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Posted: at 23-07-2011 10:15 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie
sugaDaddy1forU at 23-07-2011 10:45 PM (13 years ago) (m)
OH WELL, THATS LIFE..U MUST SURELY DIE OF SOMETHING, ALL WE PRAY FOR IS TO LIVE LONGER WITH A GOOD NAME....WE SHOULD LEARN TO BE WHAT WE'RE, AND LEARN TO RESIGN WITH A GOOD GRACE ALL THAT WE'RE NOT........RIP....
P.S DON'T HATE ME BCOZ OF WHAT COMES OUT OF MY MOUTH, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT MYSELF, SO phyukOFF..
Posted: at 23-07-2011 10:45 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Youngstoriez at 23-07-2011 11:38 PM (13 years ago) (m)
Quote from: hakeemv12 on 23-07-2011 10:47 PM
Drugs and fame kills!
DRUGS KILLS.....not FAME!! Mr. Man....Fame is a blessing and not a killer, Fame from GOD is a true heaven-like Blessing, Fame from the Devil destroys!! watch it..
Posted: at 23-07-2011 11:38 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Youngstoriez at 23-07-2011 11:42 PM (13 years ago) (m)
Drug addicts...BEWARE!!!!!!!!!! .....MAke una no dey take am to mis-sharpen una brain, e go rather sharpen and fasten una life like catalyst to quicken the day wey death suppose come!!! ......BEWARE!!
Posted: at 23-07-2011 11:42 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac