Mark Ronson won Producer of the Year at the same event.Īmy Winehouse’s recording success coincided with a series of increasingly erratic concert performances. The album secured several nominations in the 2008 US Grammy Awards, winning Best Pop Vocal Album. Produced by Mark Ronson, Back to Black also provided several other singles, including You Know I’m No Good and Love Is a Losing Game. Its best-known song, Rehab, also made the top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic. Two years later her best-known album, Back to Black, went to number one in the UK album chart and propelled her to fame in the United States. In 2004 she was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize. Just three days ago (20 July) she made a surprise appearance at the Camden Roundhouse in London, alongside her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield.Īlthough she was as famous in her final years for her excesses with drink and drugs as for her music, Amy Winehouse was undoubtedly one of the finest female popular singers to emerge from the UK in the last 25 years.īorn in north London on 14 September 1983, she was 20 when her debut album, Frank, a collection of mainly jazz-influenced songs, was released to critical acclaim in 2003. The London Ambulance Service attended her flat this afternoon but were unable to save her life, sources said. The Back To Black artist cancelled all tour dates and engagements last month after a series of erratic public appearances. It is understood the singer’s death is being treated as “unexplained”.
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