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Amy Winehouse -Jazzy soul from the UK
Amy Winehouse started off in a group that she describes as "the little white Jewish Salt 'n' Pepa". She's been wowing the Brits for awhile, burning up the charts with her second album Back to Black. This is how she's described (here):
"On a good day in London you might actually hear the sound of the melting pot. In a cafe there could be jazz. As the cars go by, hip hop beats and basslines. Some old reggae booming from the neighbourhood vinyl shop. Home, and your noisy flatmate's blaring TV on the R&B channel. It's not going to happen every day, but over a lifetime, even a short one of 19 years, the history of sweet, strong urban sounds might rub into a person's blood, and that person might grow up musically wise before their years. It could be a girl, white or black. She could be funny, tough, smart, idealistic and devoted to musicianship. If she had a voice that was timeless and salaciously textured and capable of melting concrete even on low heat that would be too good to wish for. If words have already worn themselves out trying to describe the horny, sleazy, salty spiritual, worldly wise, late night, tired of bullshit, downtown, flirty velvet resonance that makes for a great soul-jazz singer they're going to fall apart entirely over Amy Winehouse."
What she says about her music:
"I just hope that people won't hear my stuff and go, this is that white girl from London. I hope they'll go 'this is a girl who's actually got some soul, and she's young but she's had some experiences, and she's relating to them and I can relate to that'. I assume I will get pigeon holed, it's inevitable, but my music is pure, and when I write I don't have any preconceptions, I just write what I feel and I just hope that people will receive it as purely as I write it."
MORE:
YOU CAN LISTEN TO AMY WINEHOUSE on the following sites:
* Amy Winehouse official website www.amywinehouse.co.uk/.
* Amy Winehouse MySpace www.myspace.com/amywinehouse
* WATCH video for "Rehab" off "Back to Black":
* WATCH video for "You Know I'm No Good" off "Back to Black":
* Stuff about Amy from the BBC @ www.bbc.co.uk
* Article about Amy from The Independent newspaper enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music: (20 February 2007) It's been quite a week for Amy Winehouse. Feted at the Brit Awards, where she was named best British female solo artist, the 23-year-old found herself at the centre of a media storm. Her clothes, her love life, her behaviour, even her music: all have been the focus of frenzied attention....
* Amy Winehouse - Frank album
* Curiously, Amy Winehouse bares a similarity to Kat from TLC's Miami Ink ...maybe it's because they share a love for pinup tattoos? tlc.discovery.com/fansites/miami-ink/kat_corner
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Posted by TamikoMarch 4, 2007 at 10:12 PM
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