Amy Winehouse: the shocking story that reveals how two men truncated her dreams and ended her life
Amy Winehouse always tried to flee from the fame, the tours and the responsibilities that suffocated her.
The daughter of a salesman and a pharmacist, Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 in Southgate, London, into a humble family.
Her father instilled in her a love for jazz and she was always clear that she wanted to become a good performer of that musical genre. And she was going to achieve it, because she was born blessed by a gift of those that does not touch everyone: a prodigious, different voice that would take her wherever she wanted.
As soon as Frank (2003) appeared -his first album of hers that bears that name because of her love for Frank Sinatra-, a journalist asked him, How famous are you going to be?
“My music doesn't fit on that scale. I don't think I'm going to be famous. I don't think, either, to be able to bear it, "replied the young singer, Infobae highlighted.
In light of the facts, it is clear that only 50% of her predictions failed. She was a celebrity, magazine cover, she conquered the world. But she couldn't resist it.
She always tried to flee from the fame, the tours and the responsibilities that suffocated her, they were too much.
On July 23, 2011, she was found dead in her bed, at her London home, from alcohol poisoning. She was only 27 years old, but she was not a surprise to anyone: the alcoholism and bulimia that she suffered, added to a pulmonary emphysema derived from smoking crack, were already ending her life long before.
But it is unfair to remember her only because of her excesses or because she belongs to the Club of 27 - an expression used to refer to musicians, artists, and actors who died at that age. Amy was much more than that. And her music still thrills and thrills.
A troubled figure
At the age of 9, her parents separated and nothing would be the same. Her father left home too soon and that lack of parental affection of hers would mark her forever.
Her mother worked long hours to make up for her absences and she could not set limits or accompany her as she needed Amy. They began to expel her from school and she practically, she did what she wanted.
“My mother had her children. She practically raised them alone because when my father was around, she never was. She was never there for the important things. I'm not talking about taking us to school, I mean at night, when we were misbehaving. We said, "We won't go to bed." My father was never there to say, "Pay attention to your mother!" And that was what we needed. He said he was working ”, Amy would reveal years later, in an interview.
She found refuge in her paternal grandmother, Cynthia, and hers, her older brother Alex, who taught her to play the guitar. Her music was always a place that kept her afloat: she composed for hours and reflected in those scores all the pain that was sinking her.
She with 10 years she founded a rap band. At the age of 15, she started playing in London pubs and was part of a female jazz band. Her boyfriend at the time, Tyler James, gave a demo of hers to a producer and that's how Amy signed her first contract and started her professional career.
Her days took a dizzying pace: she started smoking weed and drinking excessively. At 15 years old, she confessed to her mother that she had found an ideal way to diet: eat whatever she wanted and then vomit it up. She was beginning a path to self-destruction.
In 2006 the death of her grandmother left her devastated. At that time she was already a star and she needed to stop. Her father had reappeared to manage her career and she asked him for time for a vacation, but he filled the tours with millionaire presentations of her. As in so many other cases, the money-making machine could not be turned off even if it ended up shredding the artist. And Amy, who felt imprisoned, could not get out of that labyrinth.
Her father objected
In Amy, the Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Asif Kapadia, she takes aim at her father, a serial denier who did not acknowledge his daughter's problems until quite late (he was one of the main opponents of his daughter entering rehabilitation centers for a long time) and that he only reappears in his life fascinated with the idea of being the father of the new star of the moment.
Consumption of drugs
She met Blake Fielder-Civil in London in 2003. The two had a partner at the time, but they became inseparable. Her love was like a drug: he, who cut her veins at the age of 9, introduced her to the use of crack and heroin and taught her to live without limits. And she, who was broken, was completely manipulated. This was the second man to destroy her life.
Their relationship lasted approximately seven years. On May 18, 2007, they were married in a secret ceremony in Miami, but just days after the wedding, Blake Fielder-Civil was arrested for having starred in a fight.
Her imprisonment for fighting, robbery and gun crime became a constant and, although Amy gathered her courage and entered a rehab clinic, she really wanted to heal, start a family, be a mother.
They divorced in 2009. She spent a few months on an island to detox and compose new songs for her third album. She looked more recovered, but she could not win the battle with alcohol.
Alone, with Blake in prison; childhood friends away from her; her parents denying her problems; With the harassment of the press that mercilessly recorded every step he took and several shows suspended due to his excesses, that night of July 23 he said goodbye to his bodyguard around midnight and at three in the morning he sent a text message to a friend: "I'll be here forever, and you?"
At 10 in the morning the bodyguard approached her door and she did not hear anything. She didn't surprise him. Nor when he repeated the movement at 12 noon. At three in the afternoon, alarmed by the lack of response from the singer, he entered her room.
She had been dead for several hours. At the side of her bed were three empty vodka bottles. Toxicological tests showed that there were no traces of drugs in her blood, only an inordinate amount of alcohol: 4.16 grams per liter of blood - the limit before the alcoholic coma is 3.5.
There was nothing to do, the star was fading and with it her dreams. The rebel girl of music became a legend. But Amy Winehouse just wanted to be loved.
