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Amy Winehouse, the iconic British soul singer, was found dead on Saturday in her London home. She was 27. The English singer found international fame with her smoky, hip-hop take on retro-soul, but she soon became a fixture of tabloid newspapers as her problems with drugs and alcohol brought about a strikingly public career collapse.
Ms. Winehouse became one of the most acclaimed young singers of the 2000s, selling millions of albums, winning five Grammy Awards and kicking off the British trend of retro-soul and R&B that continues today. Ms. Winehouse had a public image that seemed almost defiantly self-destructive. In her songs, Winehouse sang alcohol-soaked regrets of failed romances, and for many listeners the lyrics to the song “Rehab,” which won her three of the five Grammy Awards she received in 2008, crystallized her public persona: “They tried to make me go to rehab,” she sang, “I said, No, no, no.”
Ms. Winehouse had not released an album since “Back to Black,” but recently she appeared to be trying to revive her career. However, last month she canceled a brief European comeback tour after a last-ever disastrous performance in Belgrade, during which she appeared too intoxicated to perform properly.
This piece includes color photographs, a photo-gallery and two music videos, “Rehab” and her last-ever 2011 performance of “Back to Black” in Belgrade.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/amy-winehouse-iconic-british-soul-singer-dies-at-27/Amy Winehouse, the iconic British soul singer, was found dead on Saturday in her... more
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