...Biography for Amy Winehouse More at IMDbPro » ad feedback Date of Birth 14 September 1983, Southgate, London, England, UK Date of Death 23 July 2011, Camden, London, England, UK (alcohol poisoning) Birth Name Amy Jade Winehouse Nickname Wino Ames Height 5' 3" (1.60 m) Mini Biography Amy Winehouse was a five-time Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter known for such hits as 'Rehab' and 'You Know I'm No Good' among her other works. She was born Amy Jade Winehouse, on September 14, 1983, in Enfield, London, England to a Jewish family with Russian ancestry on her mother's side. Her father, Mitchell Winehouse, was a taxi driver; her mother, Janis Winehouse (nee Seaton), was a pharmacist. Her family shared her love of theater and music. Amy was brought up on jazz music; she played her brother's guitar and received her own guitar at age 13. Young Amy Winehouse was a rebellious girl. At age 14, she was expelled from Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, London. At that time she pierced her nose and tattooed her body. She briefly attended the BRIT School in Croydon, and began her professional career at 16, performing occasional club gigs and recording low cost demos. At age 19, she recorded her debut, Frank (2003), a jazz-tinged album that became a hit and earned her several award nominations. During the next several years, she survived a period of personal upheaval, a painful relationship, and has been struggling with substance abuse. Her 2006's album...
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...Son’keceya Whitfield English 3 Mrs. Askew April 23, 2012 Amy Winehouse Amy Winehouse is important to her fans this will help you with her childhood, claim to fame, and her death. Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 in London. By the age of 10 in 1993, Amy grew out the long jet black hair she famously wore in a beehive hairdo once she hit the big time At the age of 10, she became drawn to the rebellious spirit of TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and other American R&B and hip-hop acts, and founded a short-lived amateur rap group called Sweet 'n Sour. At the age 12 Winehouse wins a space in the prestigious Sylvia young theatre school, but is expelled long before graduation. But by the age of 16, Winehouse was expelled for "not applying herself" and piercing her nose. That same year, she caught her first big break when a schoolmate and close friend, pop singer Tyler James, passed her demo tape to his label, A&R, who was searching for a jazz vocalist.( “Biography”) The opportunity led her to a record deal with Island/Universal. Amy Winehouse developed a distinctive style of her own. Her signature beehive hairstyle has become the model for fashion designers, while her vulnerability, her fragile personality and self-destructive behavior has been regular tabloid news, and subject of criticism and controversy. In April 2008 she was named the second greatest "ultimate heroine" by the British population at large, and a month later was voted the second most hated personality...
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...On Saturday, July 23, 2011 Amy Winehouse was found dead in her flat in Camden, North London. At the age of 27 the singer- songwriter died from an accidental alcohol poisoning. She was found on her bed, fully clothed with vodka bottles on the floor. It is said that she was watching YouTube videos of herself the night before she died. Winehouse had a known drug addiction; however, she had not been taking drugs for three years at the time of the accident. Her father says that she was also trying to abstain from alcohol. She went twelve-thirteen days without any drinking, but days before she died, she consumed a lot of alcohol. Winehouse also had suffered a long history of bulimia. Amy had previously told her doctor, who had been helping her battle...
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...Amy Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter successful in the UK. When most people heard her name they thought of a talented and successful artist. Now when heard, shes known for her mistakes and the problems she brought upon herself and her career. The reputation Winehouse now has, is due to her own choices. As an artist, Amy was percepted as a musical genius and her death left a heavy mark on the music industry. Even though Amy Winehouse became the object of attention because of her bad habits and addictions, many people can learn from her fall from grace. Firstly, Amy Winehouse was born in London, England. Amy’s father was a cab driver and her mother a pharmacist (biography). Due to their music taste, she was brought up around jazz. Many family members on her mother's side were jazz musicians, which became her genre of choice. At a young age she also discovered other genres of music such as rap and hip-hop, leading her to form a group called “Sweet N’ Sour” (everyjoe). Amy was accepted into the Sylvia Young Theatre School where not long after she was expelled from for getting a nose piercing and not applying herself. After coming into contact again with Tyler James, a close friend looking for a jazz vocalist, this led her to a record deal with Island/Universal. After this record deal it led her to move into electric mixes of jazz, pop, soul, and R&B (biography). In 2003 was when Amy Winehouse first came out to public attention. “Frank” was her debut album in...
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...Amy Winehouse Abbie SK •Amy Jade Winehouse •Born on September 14th 1983 •Died on July 23rd 2011 •Talented musician who was a drug addict and an alcoholic •People say that she could have lived longer if she went into rehab •Her father introduced her to jazz classics at a very early age •Amy started the Sylvia Young Theatre School when she was 12 •14 years old she was expelled for piercing her nose and ‘not applying herself’ •Dropped out of school, and got a part time job •It was then where she start to write songs •When she was 16, her friend gave a demo tape of her to a record label and this led to Amy singing with the management company owned by Simon Fuller, 19 management •She then signed to Universal just a year later. •First relationship began in 2003 when she met a music video production assistant, Blake Fielder-Civil, at a local bar. •Her first album entitled ‘Frank’ came out later that year, with it being a jazz, pop, soul and hip hop blend •All but 2 songs were co-written by Winehouse herself. •First album got nominated for 2 brit awards •Nominated for british female solo act and british urban act •One of her songs ‘Stronger than me’ won the Ivor Novello Award for best Contemporary song •She performed at Glastonbury and the V-festival that year. •She started to write her second studio album in 2005 with producer Mark Ronson •The album was completed within 6 months. •Media noticed she was getting skinner, so when she...
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...Director Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse biopic, Amy: The Girl Behind the Name, is set to air at the Cannes Film Festival this May and in theaters across the UK on July third; that’s if of course her father (Mitch Winehouse) doesn’t get his way. Mr. Winehouse, who recently viewed the first edit of the documentary based on his daughter, was none too pleased with the way he was portrayed in the film and plans to sue for deformation of character as soon as the biopic is released. The film, which Mr. Winehouse feels portrayed him as an absentee father, allegedly does not include any of the information given to the filmmakers about the involvement of Winehouse’s family in the later stages of her life and the constant effort they made to help Winehouse. Mr. Winehouse not only stated that he was sickened when he watched it for the first time, but ensures that his daughter would have been disappointed in the biopic. "Amy would have been furious. This is not what she would have wanted.” He also admits that he feels like the people associated with the making of the movie had a specific idea of what the film would be like and refused to let even the truth change that image....
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...Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 in Southgate, North London. Her father, Mitch Winehouse, worked as a cab driver and her mother Janis was a pharmacist. Her upbringing was surrounded by jazz, some of her uncles were professional jazz musicians and because of this musical background she grew up listening to a diverse range of music from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Salt-N-Pepa, Lauryn Hill, Mos Def and Nas. Amy Winehouse vocals are in a jazz-blues, soul and funk; her beats reflect hip-hop and R&B. She was the first British female artist to ever win five Grammys in one night. Her battles with substance abuse and alcohol were subject to media attention and she admitted to having problems with self-harm, depression and eating disorders. She only had occasional live apearances some that were brilliant and other chaotic. Amy Winehouse was found dead on July 23, 2011, at her home in London. They have said that the cause of her death is "as yet unexplained" and that the death was "non-suspicious", her funeral was held on July 26, 2011. Her fans built a shrine for her outside her London home as a testament for the love they had for her. Back to Black is the second album released by Amy Winehouse in 2006, this album was darker than her first and was more about making the best out of a bad situation that she was going through. It is more about human dynamics and she was not as defensive in her writing and lets her emotions come out more...
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...• British singer song writer • 5 time grammy award winner • Big hits “ rehab” and “you know im no good” • Family had a love for theatre and music. Amy was brought up on jazz music; she played her brother's guitar and received her own guitar at age 13. • Rebellious to say the least. Age 14 she was expelled from a theatre school in London • Began her professional career started at 16, doing gigs in local clubs. • Age 19 she had recored her first debut album Frank ( 2003) • 2006 she recorded her album “back to black” • 2008 would be her massive break where she won 5 grammy awards in a single night with her back to black album which included the hit single rehab • Vunerable fragile and self destructive personality would lead to a life filled of tabloid headlines and the subject of criticism and controversy. • From 2003 onwards the next several years would be a battle field full of emotion, painful relationships and a constant struggle of substance abuse. • Amy met the very controversial and troubled Blake Fielder-Civil in 2005, two years later would marry and would be divorced 2 years after that. ( there was a 2 year gap b/t her divorce and death. • Partner: Blake fielder-Civil (18 may 2007-16 july 2009) (divorced) • Her "Back To Black" album was inspired by her relationship with Blake Civil-Fielder prior to their marriage. • Died at age 27, making her a member of the "27 Club". The "27 Club" is a group of prominent musicians who have died at the age of 27...
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...that crafts and designs art work is a unique way of personal expression. Also the big question is how do tattoos affect your life? You used the word ‘graffitied’ to describe tattoos as damage to what these women have done to their bodies. This holds negative connotations such as a criminal act but at the end of the day it’s their own body. Your harsh and unfair comments have insulted many people who have tattoos. It is clear that from the start of this article you are trying to persuade the readers as well as being one sided. Straight away you go on to describe the celebrities with tattoos as being ‘badly drawn cod-philosophical/fauxtribal/cloyingly sentimental illustrations’. You then go on to describe celebrities Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse as being ‘aspirational figureheads’ clearly employing sarcasm and in fact, most likely suggesting the exact opposite. We see you constantly giving your biased opinion about your dislike of...
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...Engl_114_686 January 31, 2014 Home Language In the lecture of Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” is described as the way in which language develops from location in which we are raised, and unconsciously we adapt our language with each group we socialize with in our lives. Tan describes herself as someone who is “fascinated by language in daily life. There was a specific moment in the text that Tan realizes that she is using different “Englishes” in different social contexts. Tan was giving a speech about her life, writing, and her book "The Joy Luck Club," to a group of scholarly people, but her mother was also present. It was at this time that she realized that her expressions were more academic, using more formal English, a language she had never used with her mother. Along with the lecture, she relates several examples of how her mother’s “Englishes” influenced her throughout her life, and how sometimes it was a barrier to communication. It was for this reason that Amy Tan decided to write a book where the reading level is easy and understandable--for those who like her mother had difficulty with complex English grammar. In many ways, Tan’s mother’s immigration experience was molded by her grasp of the English language. At times, new immigrants are pre-judged due to their language abilities, which can make life even more difficult. As a new immigrant to the US I can relate to many of Tan’s mother’s experiences. Amy Tan gives as an example when she was talking to her mother about...
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...Universidad De Oriente Teacher: Brenda Jiménez Student: Perla Olivares Hernández Subject: English IV Essay: Amazing people…Tony Melendez INTRODUCTION Amazing people? I thought I’d talk about people with weird and fantastic abilities, but then I remembered someone who I went to see like 7 years ago at the World Trade Center. This man who made me feel goose bumps, because he showed me that sometimes we complain a lot about our issues, material needs and even our low self-esteem, and sometimes we can’t see that we have all we need to succeed. Tony was born without arms due to the ravages of a drug prescribed by a doctor's order to his mother during pregnancy. The drug "Thalidomide" should calm the effects of nausea in the first half of pregnancy, but its effects left a terrible result, thousands of children are born with deformities, no arms, no feet or lacking both. As a child, Tony saw his dad play guitar and felt a great desire for it to be playing well, until one day his dad put the guitar on the floor. "Tony," he said, "Go wash your feet." They were washed and sat down to play guitar for the first time. Never let it discourage physical condition, and with much effort and practice, learned to play skillfully with his toes. Amazing People… Tony Melendez. José Antonio Melendez Rodríguez was born on January 9, 1962, in Rivas, Nicaragua, is a Nicaraguan American guitar player, composer, singer, and songwriter who was born without arms. Tony was born without...
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...B Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is an article from The Wall Street Journal. The sender Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School in USA, is comparing the Chinese upbringing to the Western way of upbringing. Mrs. Chua is trying to explain to the receiver, western parents, that there are pros and cons when you look at the Chinese way of educating children, but she also shows, that it leads to good results. The argumentation, in Mrs. Chua’s article is open. By using the open argumentation is gives Mrs. Chua the chance to show of her own opinion. And thereby reveal a little bit of herself to the reader. “For example, my Western friends who consider themselves strict make their children practice their instruments 30 minutes every day. An hour at most. For a Chinese mother the first hour is the easy part. It’s hours two and three that get tough.” Here Amy is arguing which of the cultures that is the strictest when it comes to the children’s after school activities. Later on in the text she even gives an example of how she makes her own children practice. “Lulu could not do it. We worked on it nonstop for a week, drilling each of her hands separately, over and over.” In this paragraph on page 9, we can see how she is clearly in favor of the Chinese method, which she uses herself. Amy Chua uses all of the known forms of appeal to convince the reader. Mrs. Chua starts out with the logos appeal form. “..there are tons of studies out there...
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...Two Kinds The story “Two Kinds” is written by Amy Tan. The story comes from a collection of short stories called “The Joy Luck Club” with was published the year 1989. The text questions whether a mother should press her child to be something big or whether the child should do the things it wants to do. The story takes place in the United States of America in the 1950s. The perspective in the story is seen from a first person narrator. The family is working class because they cannot afford a piano but they have a TV that not a thing everyone had in the 1950s. The narrator of the text is a girl named Ni Kan. She is nine years old in the start of the text. Her family comes from China but she lives in the USA with her mother and stepfather. In the start of the text Ni Kan´s relationship to her mother is fine because she agrees with her mother. She wants to be famous like her mother wants her to be. She tries a lot of different things like being ballerina girl or an actor. And at the night the mother asks a lot of question to Ni Kan. But one day Ni Kan, has had enough of it and do not want to do those things anymore and thus defy her mother's will. Form that day on the relationship to her mother gets bad. The relationship becomes even worse because Ni Kan still don’t wants to do the stuff her mother wants so her mother force her to play the piano and one day she had to play a concert. The concert when really badly and her mother was very disappointed over Ni Kan. The next...
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...“Two Kinds” by Amy Tan Parents in a perfect world want what is best for their children, and sometimes it can appear selfish as it did in the beginning of “Two Kinds”. Jing Mei’s mother only wanted to push Jing Mei to succeed only because she didn’t want her to have to go through all she had been through in her early years. “America was where all my mother's hopes lay” suggested her mother has already lost everything and was desperately hoping to create a better life in America for Jing Mei. Throughout the story Jing Mei’s mother pushed Jing Mei to be the best she can be and explained to her that there are only two kinds of daughters, “Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind.” In the first part of the story, Jing Mei’s mother pushes her to become a child prodigy, a genius and famous. Jing Mei has internal conflicts with herself because she only wants to be herself. What she doesn’t realize is she can be herself while becoming the things her mother is trying to push her to be. Since Jing Mei’s mother doesn’t yet know that Jing Mei will soon start to rebel, her mother seems to push harder and harder. With Jing Mei’s mother desperately trying to live up to the “American Dream”, she buys Jing Mei a piano. The piano plays a substantial role in the story. It seems as if the piano represents what her mother wants for Jing Mei. However, Jing Mei does not want these things for herself. Some may think that the mother is trying to live her life through Jing Mei,...
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...language can be dangerous, even fatal. In James Baldwin’s essay, “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” Baldwin confronts the topic of “Black Language.” Baldwin states, “Language incontestably, reveals the speaker” (Baldwin, 648). The language one speaks can say a lot about a person. People may speak the same language, but it is always going to be different based off where the speaker comes from, what type of person the speaker is, what the speaker does as their career, and what the speaker has experienced in their life. Baldwin states that his argument has “nothing to do with language itself but with the role of language” (648). Language is key to communication; it allows people to exude their perspective on things. In Amy Tan’s essay, “Mother Tongue,” Tan emphasizes that we speak different languages unconsciously and that we are categorized by the way we speak. I agree with Tan, we speak different languages without being aware at times and this...
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