After suddenly dying at her home, legendary singer Amy Winehouse was diagnosed with alcohol poisoning. The years of fame were unfortunately also the time when she slid into scandals related to violence, stimulants…

If she had lived until today, Amy Winehouse would have celebrated her 36th birthday and contributed more to the world’s entertainment industry. Passing away for 8 years, the death of the talented female singer left many regrets in the hearts of her fans.
Fame goes hand in hand with scandal
When mentioning the Back to Black singer, fans around the world do not forget a female singer who often smiles, dresses eccentrically, has eyes with thick black eyeliner like a cat’s eyes, but above all, has a powerful voice. Her compositions are a smooth blend of many musical genres such as jazz, soul… And perhaps, people still remember most her beehive hairstyle and her dressing style inspired by the 1960s girl group The Ronettes.

Whenever she was lonely, the British singer turned to stimulants. In 2010, a year before her death, she looked very thin and haggard next to her boyfriend Reg Traviss

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The singer from the foggy country was born into a family with a musical tradition. However, the separation between her father and mother when she was 9 years old left Amy’s soul somewhat damaged. Like many other great talents, singer Frank turned to music very early, around the age of 15. In the early 2000s, her voice became widely known and became a phenomenon in the British music industry in particular and the world in general.
Her debut album, Frank, was strongly influenced by jazz and achieved outstanding success in the domestic music market. Critics gave her many compliments. Frank launched the 20-year-old to continue making quality albums and performing on many international music tours. Her next album, Back to Black, was a flashback to the 1950s and 1960s, which saw the explosive growth of Amy Winehouse in the European and American music markets. In the UK alone, the album sold more than 1.85 million copies.

The singer born in 1983 had many ups and downs in her singing career. In the early 2000s, her name rose like a kite in the wind, but after 5 years, her private life was in turmoil, causing her name and health to plummet. The beauty abused alcohol after 5 years of singing. Before that, she had been addicted to drugs. Her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who used to be his wife’s assistant, was also a drug addict and regularly abused illegal substances. According to E! News, the couple had faced the police many times due to their involvement in violence. In 2006, Blake was imprisoned for a fight at a bar. As for the first British female singer to win 5 prestigious Grammy awards in the history of British music, she once punched a female fan in the face when she was advised to leave her husband, or Amy Winehouse also slapped a man…

Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil met in 2005 and got married two years later. Blake was a promiscuous man, and is considered one of the reasons that pushed his wife (when they were still married) to her death. The album Back to Black was inspired by Blake, when the two were still dating. After getting married, Blake helped his wife find stimulants in small doses. After a difficult relationship, the two divorced and officially went their separate ways in 2009

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Also according to E!News, starting from 2007 onwards, the singer who won the Brit Award for Best British Female Artist had many other bad behaviors when performing on stage such as swearing, throwing shoes at the audience, forgetting lyrics, getting drunk to the point of being unable to stand…

The singer who passed away at the age of 27 had an extremely complicated inner life. The fame that brought her to fame was also what killed the ill-fated singer. “One thing that interests me is human behavior and the interaction between two people. There is a conflict between me and what is inside me,” she said in 2004. Four years later, she revealed that the reason she writes music is not to be famous but to talk about her life.

Amy Winehouse’s musical success paved the way for many generations of British singers to succeed in the European and American music markets, including Adele. During a tribute performance to Amy’s birthday three years ago in Boston (USA), Adele shared: “I owe 90% of my career to her”

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Mark Ronson, one of the producers of the album Back to Black, said of the singer he worked with: “People in the entertainment industry try to polish their names and show their greed for fame. For Amy, she would ask “I’m an alcoholic and a degenerate, so what?”, but I know, she is not a singer who is greedy for fame”.
The final days of her life were full of tragedy
Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning at her home on July 23, 2011. Before that, she had abused alcohol to drown her sorrows because she had no friends or relatives around. Three months later, the final autopsy results showed that she died of alcohol poisoning, with her blood alcohol level five times higher than the legal limit for a normal person. A year later, the case file was reopened. In 2013, the final report stated that alcohol poisoning was the cause of death for the talented singer. However, there are still many stories surrounding the death of the legendary singer. Alex Winehouse, the singer’s brother, believes that she died because her health had deteriorated over time due to irregular eating and drinking too much.

As a strong-willed female artist, the Love Is a Losing Game singer often gave frank feedback on the parts of her songs that she did not like to her collaborators. When she punched a woman in the face when she advised the singer not to marry Blake, Amy met her directly to talk to her. Later, with a series of both funny and sad scandals, fans still sympathized with the talented singer but at the same time encountered too many unfortunate events in her life

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The American magazine The Atlantic painted a picture of the last days of the Rehab singer. According to the magazine, many people believe that she died from drug overdose, not alcohol. On July 20, 2011, she appeared at the iTunes Festival event to help her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield launch her debut album. She did not sing, but instead hugged her daughter while Dionne Bromfield sang the song Mama Said.
The Mirror interviewed neighbors who lived around the singer’s house and saw her with model Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace two days before her death, but she looked extremely haggard. Her mother, Janis Winehouse, could not hide her emotion when talking about the moment she saw her daughter the day before she passed away: “Death was just a matter of time for my daughter”. And Kelly Osbourne, Amy Winehouse’s close friend, who spoke to the singer for hours on the phone on the last night before she passed away, exclaimed when answering the Mirror: “She was absolutely fine. I don’t know how that could have happened”.