Amy Winehouse was born Sept 14, 1993 in the suburban area of North London called Southgate. Today she would have turned 40.
When Amy was 20, she was interviewed by The Guardian about her debut album, Frank, which didn’t agree with the singer. The label chose mixes and songs she did not approve of and the hype, she felt, was not there
“Well, the marketing was [bad], the promotion was terrible. Everything was a shambles,” she said. “It’s frustrating, because you work with so many idiots – but they’re nice idiots. So you can’t be like, ‘You’re an idiot.’ They know that they’re idiots.”
The machine did not fail her a few years later when her second, and tragically, final album Back to Black was made. She was paired with Mark Ronson who produced it and also co-wrote the title track with her.
Despite being far from the mainstream of 21st century pop music, the album sold millions and won 5 Grammys. Here’s some selections of note from her two albums.
While at the North Sea Jazz Festival, a European festival which that year included Elvis Costello, Santana, James Brown, Buddy Guy, Larry Carlton, Stanley Clarke, Al Jarreau, and Pat Metheny, Amy was described in the program as someone new to keep an eye on.
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