2. ENGLISH ORAL EVALUATION
Subject: Amy Winehouse
Members: Alizai, Carla
Almirón, Luciana
Gonzalez, Silvana
Luján, Karen
Wolos, Eugenia
Third Year CNBA 2012
3. INTRODUCTION
Amy Winehouse was a talented english
songwriter, singer, arranger and composer and
a five times winner of the Grammy Awards.
She vas very famous because of her deep
voice expression and her mix of genres such
as jazz, blues, R&B and soul.
She was born in 1983 in London and died in
july of 2011.
4. FIRST YEARS
• Her parents were a taxi driver and a pharmacist.
• After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother and her older
brother Alex in Southgate.
• At the age of 12, she entered into the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre
School and was expelled.
• She signed a contract with Simon Fuller’s company and was the female
vocalist from the National Youth Jazz Orchestra when she was 16 years
old.
5. DISCOGRAPHY
• Frank (2003) was her first album and had very good
reviews. However, she was unsatisfied with this album
and didn’t recommend it.
• In her second album, Back in Black (2006), she was
inspired by her relationship with Blake Civil-Fielder. Her
clothes were darker, she lost weight and she started to
use wigs.
• Lionness: Hidden Treasures (2011) is a recopilation of
rare tracks unreleased.
6. MARRIAGE
• During six months she had a relationship with Blake Civil-Fielder. He
introduced her to stronger drugs, like crack and heroine. When they broke
up she composed Back to Black.
• Because her father and her manager where worried about her abuse of
drugs and alcohol, she tried rehabilitation for 15 minutes.
• In 2007, she reconciled and married with Blake Civil-Fielder.
• He was arrested for assault and then condened to 27 months of jail after
trying to buy a witness.
• They both divorced in 2009 when Amy committed adultery.
7. DEATH
Two months after returning to rehabilitation Amy was found dead by her
bodyguards in her house in 23 september 2011. She had more than five times
the legal limit of alcohol in her system.
She was only 27 years old, just like Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix,
Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain.
8. QUOTES
• «I’ll be working till I drop dead.»
• «The more insecure I felt, the more I'd drink. The more insecure I feel, the
bigger my hair has to be.»
• “I can't even listen to Frank any more. In fact, I've never been able to.”
• “I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a
wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not
where it begins and ends.”
• “I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life.
Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And
then I am engulfed in shame.”
• “Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have
taken pills for depression.”
