Sunday, July 24, 2011

A Tragic Waste of A Phenomenal Talent:Demise of Amy Winehouse



23 JULY 2011 With a towering bee-hive, sitting atop a slender frame and tattoos that would have put a sailor to shame,Amy Winehouse, who has died aged 27 stood out even in the colourful North London social scene she frequented.

Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983, in the London suburb of Southgate to Jewish parents Mitchell, a taxi driver and jazz enthusiast, and Janis, a pharmacist.

She began writing songs as a child, and, aged ten, formed a rap duo with her best friend that went by the name of Sweet 'n' Sour. The budding soul songstress was, of course, Sour.

Amy enrolled at the Sylvia Young theatre school, but discipline and conforming to rules was never her strong suit. She was thrown out for piercing her own nose.
If her voice sounded like it was scraped off the bottom of a whisky bottle, that might have had something to do with the fact that sadly - like many of her idols such as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix - her musical genius was matched by a talent for self-destruction and problems with drugs and alcohol.
Rock critic Neil McCormick said: "It's deeply sad. It's the most completely tragic waste of talent that I can remember".

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