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Biografia Amy Winehouse (italian)
Amy Winehouse nasce a Enfield, Middlesex, Inghilterra, in una famiglia ebraica di padre tassista e madre infermiera. Cresce a Southgate (Londra), dove frequenta la Ashmole School. All'età di dieci anni fonda un gruppo rap amatoriale chiamato Sweet 'n' Sour, as Sour. Lo descrive come la versione bianca ed ebraica delle Salt 'n' Pepa. A dodici anni frequenta la Sylvia Young Theatre School, ma a tredici viene espulsa perché non si applica e a causa di un piercing al naso. In seguito frequenta la BRIT School a Selhurst, Croydon.
Cresce ascoltando diversi tipi di musica (dalle Salt 'n' Pepa a Sarah Vaughan) e riceve la sua prima chitarra a tredici anni. Inizia a cantare come professionista all'età di sedici anni, dopo che la sua amica e cantante soul Tyler James manda una sua demo ad un talent scout. Firma per la sua etichetta discografica attuale, la Island/Universal.
Il suo album di debutto, Frank, viene pubblicato il 20 ottobre 2003. Viene prodotto principalmente da Salaam Remi, con molte influenze jazz e salvo due cover, ogni canzone è scritta (anche se non interamente) dalla Winehouse. L'album riceve critiche positive. La sua voce viene paragonata a quella di Sarah Vaughan e Macy Gray.
L'album arriva ad alti livelli nelle classifiche inglesi quando nel 2004 viene nominato ai BRIT Awards nelle categorie British Female Solo Artist e British Urban Act. Riceve due dischi di platino. In seguito, ancora nel 2004, vince l'Ivor Novello Award come Best Contemporary Song con il suo primo singolo Stronger Than Me. Frank figura anche nella lista del Mercury Prize.
Dopo la pubblicazione, la cantante commenta di sentirsi soltanto per l'80% dietro l'album a causa dell'inclusione da parte della casa discografica di alcune canzoni che non le sono piaciute. Dopo la pubblicazione del suo secondo album afferma: non posso neanche più ascoltarlo, Frank. Infatti, non l'ho mai potuto ascoltare. Mi piace suonarlo dal vivo, ma ascoltarlo è un'altra cosa.
Il 27 ottobre 2006 viene rilasciato a livello mondiale l'album Back to Black, che in Inghilterra, arriva alla vetta della Uk Album Chart in pochissime settimane. Negli USA l'album raggiunge la posizione numero 7° ed è l'unico disco di una cantante inglese ad aver raggiunto una posizione così alta nella Billboard 200. Il singolo apripista ad aver anticipato l'uscita dell'album è Rehab, rilasciato il 23 ottobre 2006, che divenne un tormentone mondiale in tutte le radio del Mondo. Questa canzone parla del suo rifiuto di disintossicarsi dall'alcol e dalla droga. Il secondo singolo ad essere estratto dall'album è You Know I'm No Good, uscito l'8 gennaio 2007, che non raggiungerà mai la prima posizione della classifica pur ricevendo un giudizio dalla critica favorevole. Il terzo singolo è la title track dell'album che si intitola Back to Black e che viene rilasciato il 30 aprile 2007 riscuotendo il successo di Rehab, tanto da portare la Winehouse alla vittoria della categoria Artist Choice presente negli MTV Europe Music Awards 2007, tenuti a Monaco di Baviera il 1 novembre 2007. Il quarto singolo ad essere stato rilasciato, il 13 agosto 2007, è Tears Dry On Their Own che viene trasmesso con regolarità nelle radio ma senza diventare un tormentone come Rehab o Back to Black. Il quinto singolo pubblicato il 10 dicembre 2007 è Love Is a Losing Game. Il 10 febbraio 2008 vince cinque Grammy Award: tre per la canzone Rehab nelle categorie "Record of the Year", "Song of the Year" e "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance", uno nella categoria "Best New Artist" e uno per l'album Back to Black nella categoria "Best Pop Vocal Album"
Amy Winehouse biography (english)
Amy Winehouse was born in the Southgate area of Enfield, London to a Jewish family who shared her love of jazz music. She was raised in a family of four: her father Mitchell (a taxi driver), her mother Janis (a pharmacist), and her older brother Alex. She attended Southgate School before leaving to go to Ashmole School. At age ten, Winehouse founded a short-lived rap group called Sweet 'n' Sour with childhood friend Juliette Ashby. She was trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School when she was twelve years old but was allegedly expelled at fourteen for "not applying herself" and for piercing her nose. With other children from the Sylvia Young School, she appeared in an episode of The Fast Show in 1997. She later attended the BRIT School in Selhurst, Croydon.
After toying with her brother's guitar, Winehouse received her first guitar when she was thirteen, and began writing music a year later. It was around this time that she dropped out of school, and first started experimenting with drugs. She began working soon after, including as a "showbiz journalist" for the World Entertainment News Network in addition to singing with a jazz band. Her sometimes boyfriend at the time, soul singer Tyler James, sent her demo tape to an A&R person. The tape led to her signing with record label Island/Universal under Simon Fuller's company 19 Management, and to a publishing deal with EMI. With her first check, she moved out with Ashby. Winehouse hired New York singer Sharon Jones's longtime band, the Dap-Kings to back her up in the studio and on tour, giving the group its first real taste of the limelight. Amy Winehouse's debut album, Frank, was released on 20 October 2003. Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, many songs had jazz-influences and, apart from two covers, every song was co-written by Winehouse. The album received positive reviews with compliments over the "cool, critical gaze" in its lyrics and brought comparisons of her voice to Sarah Vaughan, Macy Gray and others. The album entered the upper levels of the UK album chart in 2004 when it was nominated for BRIT Awards in the categories of "British Female Solo Artist" and "British Urban Act". It went on to achieve platinum sales. Later in 2004, she won the Ivor Novello songwriting Award for Best Contemporary Song with her contribution to the first single, "Stronger Than Me" (alongside Salaam Remi). The album also made the short list for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize. In the same year, she performed at the Glastonbury festival, on the Jazzworld stage, and at the V Festival.
After the release of the album, Winehouse commented that she was "only 80 percent behind [the] album" because of the inclusion by her record label of certain songs and mixes she disliked. Upon the release of her second album, she stated "I can’t even listen to Frank any more — in fact, I’ve never been able to. I like playing the tracks live because that’s different, but listening to them is another story." She later clarified this, saying: "I listen to it differently now. I am still really proud of it, I still think it's a great album. But, with hindsight, there are some things I would have done differently... Just because I would do things a bit differently now doesn't mean I don't like what's on that album." In contrast to her jazz-influenced former album, Winehouse's focus shifted to the girl groups of the 1950s and 1960s. In an interview, Winehouse explained, "After Frank I didn’t write for 18 months but when I met Mark [Ronson] I pretty much wrote the album in six months—he was so inspiring." In early 2006, Winehouse's demonstration tracks such as "Wake Up Alone" and "Rehab" appeared on Mark Ronson's New York radio show on East Village Radio. These were some of the first new songs played on the radio after the release of "Pumps" and both were slated to appear on her second album. The 11-track album was produced entirely by Salaam Remi and Ronson, with the production credits being split between them almost equally. Promotion of Back to Black soon began, and in early October 2006 Winehouse's official website was re-launched with a new layout and clips of previously unreleased songs.
Back to Black was released in the UK on 30 October 2006. It went to number one on the UK Albums Chart numerous times, and entered at number seven on the Billboard 200 in the United States. By October 25, the album was approaching 5x platinum in the UK, making it the best-selling album of 2007 and the top iTunes album in the UK in 2007.
The album spawned a number of singles. The first single released from the album on 23 October 2006 was the Ronson-produced "Rehab". The song was a number-seven single in the UK, and the Ivor Novello award for best contemporary song. "Rehab" peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of June 21, shortly after a performance of it on the 2007 MTV Movie Awards. Time magazine named "Rehab" one of the 10 Best Songs of 2007, ranking it at number one. Writer Josh Tyrangiel praised Winehouse for her confidence, opining, "What she is is mouthy, funny, sultry, and quite possibly crazy" and, "It's impossible not to be seduced by her originality. Combine it with production by Mark Ronson that references four decades worth of soul music without once ripping it off, and you've got the best song of 2007."
The album's second single, "You Know I'm No Good" was released on 8 January 2007 with a remix featuring rap vocals by Ghostface Killah. It ultimately reached number 18 on the UK singles chart. Back to Black was released in the United States in March 2007, with "You Know I'm No Good" as its lead single. The title track, "Back to Black", was released in the UK on 30 April 2007 and peaked at number 25. A deluxe edition of Back to Black was also released on 5 November 2007 in the UK. The bonus disc features B-sides, rare, and live tracks, as well as "Valerie". Winehouse's debut DVD I Told You I Was Trouble: Live in London was released the same day in the U.K. and November 13 in the U.S. It includes a live set recorded at London's Shepherds Bush Empire and a 50-minute documentary charting the singer's career over the previous four years. On December 10, 2007, the final single from Back to Black, "Love Is a Losing Game", was released in the United Kingdom and U.S.
On 20 November 2007, Frank was released in the United States to positive reviews. The album debuted at number 61 on the Billboard 200 chart.
In addition to her own album, she has collaborated with other artists on singles. Winehouse was a vocalist on the song "Valerie" on Ronson's solo album Version. The song peaked at number two in the UK, upon its October single release. The song was nominated for a 2008 Brit Award for "Best British Single". Her work with ex-Sugababe Mutya Buena, "B Boy Baby," was released on 17 December 2007. It served as the fourth single from Buena's solo debut album Real Girl. By year's end, Winehouse had garnered numerous accolades and awards. The singer won 2008 Grammy Awards in the categories of 'Record of the Year', 'Song of the Year', and 'Best Female Pop Vocal Performance' for the single "Rehab", while her album Back to Black won in the 'Record of the Year' award and a nomination for 'Album of the Year'. Producer Mark Ronson's work with her won the award in the Producer of the Year Non-Classical category. The singer also earned a Grammy in the 'Best New Artist' category. She performed "You Know I’m No Good" and "Rehab" at the awards ceremony on 10 February 2008 via satellite, as her visa approval came through too late for her to travel to the U.S. She said "This is for London because Camden town is burning down," in reference to the Camden Market fire. The nominations, announced in early December, led to a 48 percent increase in the sales of Back to Black in the United States. Post Grammy Awards, album sales increased by 368 percent over the prior week, to the number 2 position in the United States. In all, she sold a total of 497,310 singles (the 8th best-selling singles artist of the year) and 2,196,362 albums (the top-selling albums artist) in her native UK during the year.[citation needed].
On 13 January 2008, Back to Black held the number one position on the Billboard Pan European charts for the third straight week.[40] By the end of January 2008, Universal Music International reported total sales of the album had reached 3.4 million copies and that it believed there was a correlation between that figure and the extensive media coverage the singer has received.[41]
On 20 February 2008, Winehouse performed at the 2008 BRIT Awards, performing "Valerie" with Mark Ronson, followed by "Love Is a Losing Game". She urged the crowd to "make some noise for my Blake."
A special deluxe edition of "Back to Black" topped the UK album charts on 2 March 2008. The original edition of the album resided at the number 30 position, in its 68th week on the charts, while "Frank" charted at number 35.[43] By 12 March, the album had sold a total of 2,467,575 copies, 318,350 of those in the previous 10 weeks, putting the album on the UK's top 10 best-selling albums of the 21st century for the first time.. On 7 April "Back to Black" was residing at the top position on the pan-European charts for the sixth consectutive and thirteenth aggregate week.
Biografía de Amy Winehouse (espanol)
Amy Jade Winehouse nació el 14 de septiembre de 1983 en el seno de una familia judía con la tradición musical del jazz. Se crió en el norte de Londres y fue al colegio Ashmole School. Con 10 años fundó una banda de rap, Sweet ‘n’ Sour. También dio clases de teatro con 12 años, pero la expulsaron de la academia por no mostrar suficiente interés y hacerse un piercing en la nariz. A sus 13 años le regalaron su primera guitarra, con la que actuaría en pequeños pubs de Londres. Su carrera profesional comenzó a sus 16 años, cuando un amigo, el cantante Tyler James, presentó su demo a un productor. La cantante y compositora se ha visto involucrada en varias polémicas por asuntos de drogas o alcohol.
Su álbum debut se lanzó en 2003 con el título de Frank, y fue nominado para los Premios Mercury Music. En 2006 apareció su segundo disco, Black to Black. El 14 de febrero de 2007 ganó un Brit Award en la categoría de Mejor Artista Británica. Su segundo disco alcanzó el platino en Estados Unidos. De este mismo álbum ha lanzado una segunda versión llamada Black to Black Deluxe Edition al mismo tiempo que ha lanzado su primer DVD: Told You I Was Trouble.
Actualmente tiene una grata mención, pues el 10 de febrero de 2008 ha tenido el gran honor de ser la gran ganadora de la noche en la que se celebró la ceremonia de entrega de los Grammy 2008. Se ha llevado cinco de los seis premios, a saber, Mejor nuevo artista, Grabación del año, Canción del año, Mejor interpretación femenina de pop por Rehab, y Mejor álbum pop vocal por Black to Black.
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