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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."
sad
I'd say this is shocking news, but what's more shocking is that she was still alive this late in the addiction-cycle.
Have to agree completely with you
She joins Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin in the big concert in the great beyond.
This is the least surprising news I have ever heard.
Don't think there's a surprised person reading this acticle. She made the choice to go down this path so I really don't feel sorry for her. The one's I feel sorry for are her family, who had to watch this slow motion train wreck come off the rails.
I am saddened by this. RIP Amy.
She was a bad singer but she shouldn't have died though.
RIP Amy, after failed concerts, we all hoped she will get better and come back, this is sad!
RIP – Thanks for the music!
Father God Jesus bless you beautiful, I kinda knew your young life was going that way Amy. I guess drugs is not just a Black American or Black European or non-White thing anymore. Now you can rest sweetheart.
As if they ever were? Join the 21st century, there is live outside your trailer park.
When did drugs only effect one race. Think you need to open your closed mind a little.
Should of went to rehab.
And yet Paris Hilton lives?? Come on !!!!!
Drew I agree.
Rest in Peace Sweetie. I loved your music.
Hopefully she will find the peace that seemed to escape her during her life.