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Amy Winehouse
There was a grim inevitability about the tragic death of Amy Winehouse, which
abruptly ended a spectacular career that started with her emergence as one of
the most iconic voices of her era, bringing with it a deluge of fame that may
have accelerated her tortured descent into drugs and premature death on July 23,
2011 at the age of 27. The daughter of a Jewish jazz-loving taxi driver from
North London, Amy was already singing in a rap group, Sweet 'n Sour by the time
she was 10, was playing guitar at 13 and writing her own songs at 14 before
joining the Sylvia Young Theatre Schoo...
