With never seen before photos and interviews, internationally
acclaimed author, Jake Brown, will take you deep into Amy
Winehouse's world of record deals, contracts, touring, bands, men,
women, drugs and alcohol. Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September
14th, 1983 in the middle-class London suburb of Southgate to
parents Mitch and Janice, who worked as a cab driver and pharmacist
respectively. She died of alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011, at
the young age of twenty seven years old. Her album Back to Black
subsequently became the UK's best selling album of the 21st century
in 2012. Amy's introduction to her father's love for jazz would
prove in time to be the pivotal stylistic influence in the course
of shaping her broader musical roots as both a singer and
songwriter. "I taught Amy to sing when she was a baby, like all
parents sing to their children, I taught her how to sing...we loved
singing together. We loved talking about music." Along with her
father, the singer would additionally credit her brother Alex with
helping put her in touch with her first exposure to playing, "my
brother taught himself guitar, so I took an inspiration for
teaching myself from him, and he showed me a couple of things."
Though she began fiddling around on the guitar, Winehouse's true
calling would come with a unique vocal gift that instantly caught
the ear of everyone from the first time they ever heard it. Mitch
said, "I remember her being nine and ten and just starting out and
realized she had a very powerful voice." Not surprisingly, it was
within her early explorations of her talent that Amy would find
refuge, "I was singing mostly a lot of blues and jazz when I was
young, a teenager. That's when you're really messed up about your
life. "It's just mad, your life, you're up and down, like nobody's
business." It was here during this early period in her evolution as
an R&B singer that Amy would first make the all-important
connection between the fundamental importance of feeling what she
was singing on a personal level, so that she could then succeed in
communicating that feeling in the embodiment of her physical vocal
performance. An essential lesson she summed up with, "you have to
live certain things, to be able to then sing about them" Among the
many awards and recognitions Amy Winehouse earned in her short life
and music career were an Iyor Novello Award for Best Contemporary
Song "Stronger Than Me," a BRIT Award nomination for Best Female
Solo Artist. Amy's album "Back to Black" produced numerous
nominations, including two BRIT Awards (Best Female Solo Artist and
Best British Album), five Grammy Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards,
four MTV Europe Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, three
World Music Awards, and was nominated for the Mercury Prize - Album
of the Year and a MOBO Awards- Best UK Female. During her career,
Amy Winehouse received 23 major awards from 60 nominations. In
February 2012, Amy Winehouse was listed at number 26 on MTV's -
VHI's 100 Greatest Women In Music. Chapters Include: Growing up in
Southgate, Amy's Education in Rebellion, Frank- 2003, Hitting the
Stage, The Ballad of Amy and Blake Pt. I, Back to Black - 2006,
Coming to America, The Ballad of Amy and Blake Pt. II, The Wild
Ride of Britain's Bonnie & Clyde and One Last Dance. Amy
Winehouse: Too Young To Die...Too Old To Live, was written by
Nashville-based, internationally acclaimed, music biographer, Jake
Brown. Mr. Brown has written over thirty five published books,
including: Lady Gaga: Born To Be Free; Lil Wayne: An Unauthorized
Biography; Prince: In the Studio; and Dr. Dre: In the Studio.
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