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Singer Amy Winehouse found dead, UK press says
Singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her apartment in London on Saturday, the UK Press Association reported. She was 27.
The "Rehab" singer had a history of battling drugs and alcohol and recently left a British rehabilitation program that a representative said was intended to prepare her for scheduled European concerts.
But she cut short the European concert tour in Belgrade, Serbia, last month after she staggered around the stage and stumbled through several songs.
The troubled British singer was known for a stirring, soulful voice that many considered a throwback to the Motown sound.
She had a breakout year in 2008 when she won several Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for her hit “Rehab.” Her album “Back to Black” garnered Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year.
But there was trouble.
Winehouse's volatile marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil took a toll on the singer's career. The couple divorced in 2009 after a stormy two years marked by drug addiction and arrests.
Winehouse’s parents went public with their efforts to help their daughter, telling the London Telegraph in 2009 that she was on the road to recovery.
"A gradual recovery, which is good,” Winehouse’s father, Mitch, told the Telegraph. “With slight backward steps - not drug backward steps, more drink backward steps if you follow my drift. I think that will be the pattern of recovery."
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So sad really, she had a really soulful singing voice. It's sad that her demons got the best of her. =/
Not surprised in the least.
Its always a shame when a young person with talent dies from what will probably turn out to be drug related causes. She really had talent and its sad that to have talent and be able to get it out in todays commercial world you need to use drugs and alcohol to a dangerous level....yet I think that's what seems to have been happening over the years and it has not changed it seems.
George Bush is the culprit. It's a vast right-wing conspiracy.
A tragic loss for music lovers–not that this outcome was so surprising, given her struggles, but you have to allow that the woman had riveting talent.
What a waste of talent. So tragically sad.
Crash, burn.
Very sad. May she rest in peace.
She truly had talent,an absolute beautiful singer who really felt and expressed her music.A big loss.Too bad she couldn't have been saved,She seemed very ill,her own worst enemy.She will be missed but now she is at peace.
wasted talent..
at least you got the wasted part right..........
R.I.P Amy Winehouse
i just won a case of beer... because i made a bet she dies before her 30's
Am I the only one to see the irony in this??
I offer my sympathy to her parents who have probably worried that this day would come. Remember she was a sweet innocent at one time and was loved and remembered that way by her family.
Unfortunate, but it must of been her time to go.
The Grammy should have gone to Fergie...sad!!!
That's just stupid.
yes, there is no free will.
Not surprising in the least. I was expecting this news in the not too distant future. She was a train wreck ready to crash and burn. I feel sorry for her family but they, too, must have known this could have happened at an early age.
RIP Ms. Winehouse. You are now at peace.