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Amy Winehouse was born in Enfield, London to a Jewish family. Her father, Mitchell Winehouse, is a taxi driver and her mother Janis is a pharmacist, and she also has one brother Alex. She attended Ashmole School, and was later trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 12. At 14 she got expelled for “not applying herself” and piercing her nose. Later she attended the BRIT ...

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Amy Winehouse is going in a really interesting direction for her new album. She's taking inspiration from on of our favorite films, The Wizard of Oz, and infusing it into her signature sound. A source tells The Sun, "She loves the surreal look, sound and score. And the soundtrack and score will be a theme running throughout the record." Amy has even recorded a new song that features a sample from The Wizard of Oz. Sources say it's...

Amy Winehouse feels really left out and dogged because her version of the James Bond song wasn't picked. They ended up going with the Alicia Keys/Jack White collaboration instead. But that won't keep Wino down! She's decided she'll still release her version of the song, so it can compete with the Keys/White one. She says, "When I do release mine - and I am tempted to do it on the same day - this would be...

Amy Winehouse's father Mitch is going to be co-hosting a BBC London radio show on September 1st, and his very famous (and troubled) daughter has agreed to make a cameo on the show. Station assistant editor Justin King said: "Mitch and Amy are able to work really well together. There isn't a question this agony aunt can't answer." She's reportedly also going to help her dad pick some tracks while she is there. It's...

We have to admit, it's a little overboard how much praise Amy Winehouse gets based on her one album Back To Black. It's like her crack-addict ways are overshadowed by how genius she is in the studio and on stage. But John Lydon of the Sex Pistols doesn't seem to think Amy is all that. In fact, he thinks she's turned to drugs to mask her lack of talent. He tells Scottish newspaper the Daily...

Why are people still coughing up massive amounts of cash for Amy Winehouse to play private shows for them? Every one she's played in the past few months has gotten terrible reviews, and audience members note how strung out and off-pitch Amy is. But when you're the Prince of Brunei, if you want Amy, you get Amy. He's offered her $2 million to play a private show, and Amy's reportedly thinking about it. He asked...

Finally! Amy Winehouse is giving us hope that she'll be working on her new album in the coming months. Even though she's been in and out of the hospital, the same old cracked-out Amy has been showing up to gigs, even to Nelson Mandela's birthday bash. Maybe we're just going to have to live with her being that way, because instead of making a commitment to recovery, she's planning on heading back into the...
Busta Rymes has expressed interest in collaborating with troubled singer Amy Winehouse. He says, "Her music is incredible. I am definitely a fan. "There are a lot of artists I'd like to work with, but I don't want to work with them because of their names, I want to work with them because I know what we'd do together would be something special." Has Busta read anything about Amy? Amy is reportedly such a mess that people...

Finally someone is taking control of Amy Winehouse's cracked out life! She's been placed on house arrest. And this time it's not the police or her parents. It's her record label! Now Magazine says: "Effectively, Amy's been put under house arrest. She is being monitored by 24/7 surveillance to make sure she's behaving herself and keeping out of harm's way. There is also a security guard stationed outside her house around the...

Amy Winehouse and her beehive will get waxed and go on display later this month at Madame Tussauds. "We are really pleased to be creating Amy," general manager Edward Fuller said in a statement. "She is a real icon in modern British music, a continual award winner, and an internationally recognized star widely requested by our guests." The wax figure will even include all her signature tattoos. Wonder if a crackpipe is included?

Nelson Madela's much anticipated 90th birthday concert is on Friday night and Amy Winehouse will be one of the performers. Amy is planning to do a duet with The Special AKA star Jerry Dammers. They will reportedly perform his bands song Free Nelson Madela which is the song he wrote in 1984. He wrote the song as a campaign for the release of the former South African president. Nelson was released on 11 February 1990. The birthday concert will...

Amy Winehouse actually showed up the perform for the Russian billionaire but it might have been because she was getting 2 million dollars for the performance. It must have been a challenge for her people to get her there and on stage because she was reportedly a bit woozy. No surprises there! When Amy arrived to Russia, "she was in no condition to appear" so her people "spent two hours trying to pull her together," says a source. She was...

The Pussycat Dolls are taking over! First they dragged Britney into doing a cameo for their upcoming video, and now they want Amy Winehouse! But the girls don't even want Amy's best asset, her voice. All they want is to take her in, and give her a makeover so she's more sexy.  Hey we're all for Amy taking down the beehive look a notch, but we couldn't see her pulling off the Pussycat Doll look....