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.Amy Winehouse found dead in London apartment
LONDON - Troubled Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse was found dead this afternoon at her London home.
The "Back To Black" singer — whose meteoric rise to fame has been dogged by her well-documented struggles with drug addiction — was found by paramedics around 4 p.m. London time.
She was 27.
London cops are conducting an investigation.
Winehouse had last been seen publicly Wednesday at the iTunes festival in North London.
While she didn't sing, Winehouse staggered on stage and begged the crowd to buy her protege, 15-year-old Dianne Bromfield’s new album.
Last month she cancelled her European tour following a disastrous performance in Belgrade, Serbia where she gave an incoherent performance appearing disoriented and drunk.
British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead today at age 27.
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British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead today at age 27.
Winehouse had a long history of substance abuse, including not only alcohol but heroin and cocaine. As recently as June she had to cancel a planned 12-stop European tour after appearing drunk and struggling to remember her own lyrics at the tour's first stop in Belgrade, Serbia.
Prior to beginning the tour, she spent a week at the Priory Clinic in London, which offers treatment for addiction problems.
Though she met repeatedly with personal obstacles, Winehouse always believed she would be able to overcome them.
"If I am backed up against the wall, I'll kick the sh*t out of it," she said. "If you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you."
It was hard to miss Amy Winehouse -- both for her talent and her unkempt appearance. The singer won music magazine NME's "Worst Dressed Performer" award in 2008 and 2009 and was named the third worst dressed British Woman by Glamour magazine, thanks to her unruly, upswept hairdo, over-applied black eye makeup and tiny tank tops.
Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 and raised in the Southgate area of England by her mother Janis, a pharmacist, and her father, Mitchell, a taxi driver.
She developed an early interest in jazz from her father, who often sang around the house.
She attended the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School and the Sylvia Young Theatre School, but was expelled from the latter at 14, reportedly for "not applying herself" and piercing her nose.
Winehouse's debut album, "Frank," produced mainly by Salaam Remi, was released on October 20, 2003, when the singer was 20. Many of the songs had jazz influences, and all but two covers were co-written by Winehouse.
The album hit platinum sales in 2004 and earned Winehouse the Ivor Novello songwriting Award for Best Contemporary Song on her first single, "Stronger Than Me."
Winehouse released her second album, "Back to Black," in 2006. Her first to be released in the United States, the album included the single "Rehab," which Time named the Best Song of 2007 and Rolling Stone called the eighth-best song of the 2000s.
The success of "Back to Black" led to five Grammys for Winehouse in 2008, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Rehab," Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best New Artist. That earned Winehouse a spot in the 2009 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for Most Grammy Awards won by a British Female Act.
Worldwide pop superstar Lady Gaga later credited Winehouse with opening the door for artists who dared to be different.
"I will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse," she told AOL. "Because of Amy, very strange girls like me go to prom with very good-looking guys. She's a different kind of woman. I don't believe that what I do is very digestible, and somehow Amy was the flu for pop music.
"And everybody got a little bit of the flu and got over it, and fell in love with Amy Winehouse. And now, when more flu comes along, it's not so unbearable."
Before "Back to Black" was released, Winehouse began to struggle with alcohol and substance abuse. She developed a reputation for showing up to performances too drunk to complete a whole set. Her management company suggested she enter rehab, but instead she fired the company and channeled her feelings into her hit single "Rehab."
Winehouse married Blake Fielder-Civil, a former video production assistant and grammar school dropout, in May 2007. He later admitted to introducing Winehouse to crack cocaine and heroin.
The two were also known to be violent with each other when intoxicated. They divorced in August 2009.
Winehouse's abuse issues grew and worsened in 2007, a year in which she canceled numerous shows in the UK and Europe, citing exhaustion or ill health. She was hospitalized in 2007 for a reported overdose of a cocktail of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine, whiskey, and vodka.
Though her albums continued to sell in Europe and the US, Winehouse's health continued to deteriorate. She was denied a US visa due to her "use and abuse of narcotics," preventing her from performing live at the Grammys in February 2008.
She allegedly punched a fan while performing at the Glastonbury Music Festival in June of the same year.
Winehouse is survived by her father, Mitchell, mother, Janis, and older brother, Alex.
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Amy Winehouse è stata trovata senza vita nella sua casa nella parte nord di Londra. La cantante aveva 27 anni e aveva recentemente dovuto cancellare il suo tour europeo, tra cui anche l'unica data italiana di Lucca. La controversa rockstar è stata lungamente in cura per droga e alcol.
Tournè annullata a giugno - L'ultimo concerto della cantante risaliva al 18 giugno scorso a Belgrado, quando davanti a 20 mila persone ai piedi della fortezza Kalemegdan è stata sonoramente fischiata. La controversa artista inglese, come immortalato in un video che ha fatto il giro del web, era sembrata troppo ubriaca per cantare, aveva balbettato alcuni dei suoi pezzi, non riuscendo per alcuni tratti della performance neanche a stare dietro ai musicisti. Nel corso dell'esibizione Amy Winehouse, che da poco aveva terminato una cura per disintossicarsi dall'alcol, aveva anche abbandonato la scena per ben due volte, tra i fischi dei fan accorsi anche dai paesi vicini. I musicisti avevano anche cercato di calmare il pubblico.
Amy Winehouse 1983 - 2011 - Nata 27 anni fa in un paesino del Middlesex, da padre tassista di origini russo-ebraiche e madre infermiera, Amy Winehouse ha legato il suo nome, oltre che al suo talento artistico, anche ai suoi eccessi lontano dal palcoscenico. A causa della sua grave dipendenza dall'alcol e dalle droghe, legata a una forte depressione e a disordini alimentari, la cantante britannica è finita più volte al centro delle cronache, che hanno registrato arresti, episodi di molestie, performance canore in stato confusionale e gesti di autolesionismo.
Giunta al successo nell'autunno del 2006, grazie all'album Back to Black, che scala le classifiche in Inghilterra e negli Usa e al singolo Rehab, che diventerà un vero e proprio tormentone in tutto il mondo, la Winehouse comincia ad aggiudicarsi premi su premi, Mtv, Grammy Awards, Best new artist. Con gli onori della cronaca e gli allori della critica - c'è chi la paragona a Sarah Vaughan - arrivano tuttavia anche le 'cadute' di umore e gli scatti di un temperamento a dir poco inquieto. La rockstar perde quattro taglie tra la pubblicazione del primo e secondo album e dichiara candidamente alla stampa che lo ha fatto per rispondere ai commenti sul suo peso. Amy non si è mai nascosta e ai giornalisti che la cercano ammette di aver sofferto di disordini alimentari e di alzare spesso il gomito.
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