8 years after her premature death, the fans of Amy Winehouse, still can’t come to terms
with the fact that their idol is no longer with us.
The artist struggled so much and could her management have done something to help her?
It’s Marky Mark and stay with me to find out the details of the last days of Amy Winehouse!
Amy Winehouse had a thing for music ever since she was very young.
Her father, Mitch, who was a taxi driver, always aspired to be a musician and the rest
of her family was involved in jazz music.
So it looks like Amy was destined to be in the music business.
When she was just 12 years old she was admitted to the prestigious Sylvia Young Theater School,
and a year later she got her first guitar.
However, the rebellious nature that years later would be the reason for her downfall
started to show in her teens.
At the age of 16, Amy was expelled from the music school because of a lack of commitment
and for piercing her nose.
That same year her friend, Tyler James, who had already been in the music business, used
some of his connections and sent Amy’s demo tape to the right people.
It looks like jazz was Amy's destiny because this is the genre in which she debuted!
Her debut album, "Frank," which was a mixture of jazz, pop, soul, and hip-hop, was released
In 2003 and got excellent reviews.
That’s not all because it also was nominated for and won multiple awards.
However, Amy’s great talent was overshadowed with her bad reputation because of her excessive
partying.
And, it was a usual thing that she performed live on national TV while being under the
influence and sometimes she even wasn’t able to finish her set.
As if that wasn’t enough, at that time she started a relationship of love &hate with
her assistant, Blake Fielder-Civil, who later admitted that he was the one who ruined Amy’s
life.
Her lifestyle got so dangerous that in 2006 Amy’s management suggested that she went
to rehab.
But she was far from getting the suggested help, and Amy not only sent told the company
to ... ehm, leave her alone, but also wrote a song inspired by that suggestion.
Yes, I’m talking about "Rehab"!
The song got such an overwhelming response and quickly landed on the UK Top 10 singles
chart and got Amy the Best British Solo Singer award, and a Best British Album nomination
in 2007.
So actually the suggestion helped her… but not in the way it was expected.
After that the singer's extreme lifestyle started reaching destructive levels.
In April 2007 she got engaged to Blake, and a month later they got married in Miami.
Apparently the euphoria caused by the marriage was too high because in August of that same
year, Amy overdosed for the first time and was hospitalized.
But, surprisingly, her tour scheduled for fall 2007 wasn’t canceled.
In October that year, Amy was arrested in Norway for possession of drugs, together with
her new husband, and an unknown third person but they were released on bail.
You would think that all of these things would have made the singer change something in her
life, but that was very far from happening.
Later, in November, Winehouse showed up at her show in Birmingham in an awful state.
It was so bad that even her most loyal fans booed her and started leaving the arena.
Do you agree that what she did is a huge disrespect to the audience?
Unfortunately, things didn’t change until 2011 and Amy’s terrible behavior continued.
So on her list, she had more arrests; failed attempts at rehabilitation, many of her concerts
were canceled, and she even was denied a US visa that stopped her from showing up at the
2008 Grammy Awards.
It was obvious that because of the destructive behavior the singer's health started to deteriorate.
I said that nothing changed until 2011, because in January that year, after the last two shows
of her tour, Amy informed her father that she hadn’t drunk a single drop of alcohol
for more than two weeks.
And in April she even entered rehab.
It seemed that the singer was ready to leave behind her harmful lifestyle.
But apparently it was too late and her health was already damaged.
Amy’s last live performance was supposed to take place, in Belgrade, in June 2011.
And I mean, it was “supposed” to happen because after having stayed sober for a couple
of weeks, Amy returned to her old ways and got drunk before going on stage.
The rest of her performances was canceled and the singer returned to London.
That’s when for the millionth time she told her dad that she really wanted to leave her
addiction behind.
Surprisingly, Amy had a very speedy recovery and stayed sober for the rest of the month,
and at the iTunes Festival in July she even was able to dance on stage.
Sometime later, Amy's manager told her father that when he saw his daughter that night she
asked him to take care of her dad.
According to Amy's bodyguard, on the night of July 22 the singer was quite cheerful;
she even sang and played drums for some time in her room.
When at 10 a.m., Andrew went to Amy's bedroom, it seemed that she was sleeping.
But, 5 hours later, she was still in exactly the same position.
So his first thought was that she died and this was what really happened.
And the cause of the singer’s death was alcohol poisoning.
The alcohol level found in Amy’s body was reportedly five times over the legal limit
for driving.
As proof, three bottles of vodka were found in her house.
And that’s how Amy Winehouse joined the 27 Club.
I wonder what Amy’s life would be like if she’d gotten proper help.
What do you think of the career and the life of this legendary British singer?
Do you think that her management could've done something to help her?
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