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Winehouse Amy Biography

British singer and songwriter, a talented and versatile performer who won rave reviews for her music and sympathy for her very public battles with drug and alcohol addictions and eating disorders. She was found dead at the age of 27 on July 23, 2011. Autopsy results were reported as inconclusive. Winehouse and her older brother were the children of a pharmacist mother and taxi-driver dad who separated when Amy was nine years old. Her grandmother encouraged Amys artistic talents by suggesting attendance at a theatre school. She received her first guitar at age 13 and began writing her own music soon thereafter. She released her debut album at age 20, on October 13, 2003. The album, primarily devoted to original jazz titles, was a success. In future albums she experimented stylistically, incorporating her love for pop rock and soul. She took home several Grammy Awards in 2008. Her success was accompanied by many personal episodes of grief. She married Blake Fielder-Civil on May 18, 2007; the pair apparently had a violent relationship with some of her injuries reportedly self-inflicted. Fielder-Civil told reporters in one interview that he introduced her to crack cocaine and heroin although her addictions to alcohol and weight loss were being reported as early as 2005. In late January 2008 she entered a rehab facility. Her divorce from Fielder-Civil became became final on August 28, 2009. A security worker called an ambulance to Winehouses London home at 3:54 PM local time on July 23, 2011 and she was pronounced dead at the scene. An initial autopsy report was inconclusive and her family said that a toxicology report showed no traces of illegal substances. On 17 December 2012, British authorities reopened the probe of Winehouses death. On 8 January 2013, a second inquest confirmed that Winehouse died of accidental alcohol poisoning. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less