Amy Winehouse Dead At 27

A suspected drug overdose took the life of Amy Winehouse. She recently checked back to rehab last May. Battling drug addiction for years, she was last seen performing on stage last July 20 at iTunes Festival. She was dead at the scene when London Metropolitan Police arrive.Tony Bennett had chosen Winehouse and several other artists to duet with him on his forthcoming album Duets II.

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer-songwriter, known for her substance abuse and mental health issues.

Amy Winehouse (1983-2011)

Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British singer to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. She won the Ivor Novello Award three times, one in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for "Stronger Than Me", one in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for "Rehab", and one in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing Game", among other prestigious distinctions. The album was the third biggest seller of the 2000s in the United Kingdom. - wikipedia.org

Back To Black (2006)