• Born:September 14, 1983 in Enfield, Middlesex, England
  • Marital History:Married Blake Fielder-Civil in May 2007 in Miami, Florida
  • Profession:R&B singer and songwriter
Amy Winehouse's enormously successful 2006 album Back to Black led to a flurry of awards and accolades. At the 2008 Grammy Awards she won five awards including Best Album for Back to Black and Best New Artist. She won Best British Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards in 2007. She also has three Ivor Novello Awards under her belt and in 2007 won a MOBO Award for Best UK Female.
Her first album Frank was released in 2003. A collaboration with artist Mark Ronson produced a No.2 hit in the UK charts with single Valerie, which was the ninth best selling single of 2007. It appears on Ronson's album Version.
Amy attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, London, before being asked to leave aged 14, for piercing her nose and failing to keep up with her studies. She also attended the Brit School in Selhurst Croydon.
As well as her musical talents, Amy is well known for her trademark beehive, tattoos and troubled personal life. Her drink and drug addictions, eating disorders and problems with depression and self-harming have been well documented. Her father Mitch, a taxi driver, and mother Janis, a pharmacist, have talked frankly about Amy's personal troubles, which they believe stem from the death of her beloved grandmother Cynthia, in 2006. Her father revealed in June 2008 that Amy was suffering early signs of emphysema caused by smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine.
Her problematic love life has also been a source of speculation in the media. Her husband Blake Fielder-Civil was sentenced to 27 months in July 2008 for grievous bodily harm and trying to pervert the course of justice. She lives in Camden