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Many of the uncles on her mother's side were professional jazz musicians, and her paternal grandmother was romantically involved with British jazz legend Ronnie Scott at one time. At home, she listened to and absorbed her parents' selection of greats: Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra, among others. That opportunity led to her recording contract with Island Records. By the end of , when she was 20 years old, Island had released her debut album, Frank.
Following Winehouse's debut, the accolades and inquiring interviews appeared concurrently in the press with her tempestuous public life.
Several times she showed up to her club or TV performances too drunk to sing an entire set. In , her management company finally suggested that she enter rehab for alcohol abuse, but instead, she dumped the company and transcribed the ordeal into the U. Top Ten hit "Rehab," the lead single for her second, critically acclaimed album, Back to Black.
The fanfare over the release was so great that it started to spill over onto U. The LP charted higher than any other American debut by a British female recording artist before it, and it remained in the Top Ten for several months, selling a million copies by the end of that summer.
Just as in the U. Not long afterward, though, Winehouse canceled her North American tour. Early reports revealed that she was entering rehab for addiction, but her new management denied the claims, stating it was due to severe exhaustion. Her erratic behavior kept her and her new husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, in the tabloids constantly, on and off stages on both sides of the Atlantic, but in late , American fans were finally given a chance to hear Winehouse's early work, with a slightly abbreviated two songs removed and one added version of Frank.
Unfortunately, the next four years were filled with drama, disappointment, and very little music. Public performances turned into incoherent disasters, the worst of them posted to video-sharing sites for all to see. A track on the Quincy Jones tribute Q: Soul Bossa Nostra appeared in , while a duet with Tony Bennett was announced in early , but a planned follow-up to Back to Black would never make it past the demo stage.
Winehouse was found dead in her Camden, London apartment on July 23, The coroner's report, delivered three months later, revealed that her blood alcohol content had reached a potentially fatal level. Search the Wayback Machine Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Sign up for free Log in. Amy Winehouse Audio Preview. It appears your browser does not have it turned on.
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