Amy Winehouse, the Grammy Award-winning pop singer-songwriter whose compositions reflected — and ultimately were overshadowed by — a turbulent personal life and struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, was found dead 23 July 2011 at her apartment in London. She was 27.
Amy Winehouse's hit songs included Rehab, Valerie, Tears Dry on Their Own and Back to Black.
The British-born performer's train-wreck-style public behaviour often threatened to eclipse her talent. Although she received high-profile engagements, such as Nelson Mandela's 90th-birthday concert at London's Hyde Park in 2008, she routinely cancelled or missed appearances, whether because of bad health or bad manners.
In June 2011, Ms. Winehouse cancelled a tour after she shouted "Hello, Athens!" to an audience of 20,000 in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Backup singers had to sing her songs and she was ultimately booed off the stage.
Ms. Winehouse said living dangerously generated her creativity, and she was often photographed half-dressed and wild-eyed. The English tabloids reported that she had suffered brain damage from excessive use of drugs and alcohol.
"It sounds like such a wank thing to say," Ms. Winehouse once commented, "but I need to get some headaches going to write about."
Her reckless life often called to mind the doomed rock stars of earlier generations, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain — all of whom also died at the age of 27.
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