On June 18, 2011, Amy performed in Serbia, it was the last show of her life.
The uniquely talented British singer lived with drug and alcohol addiction, which became evident right up until her final on-stage performance in the Serbian capital.
The next arrival of the biographical film of Amy Winehouse has revived interest in the British singer's fascinating story. Equipped with an astonishing voice, a unique onstage personality and raw, poetic lyrics, Winehouse established herself as one of the most important artists of her generation. With only two studio albums, critics, press and of course the audience agreed that this was just the beginning of a career full of success, but the 27-year-old singer battled several demons that ultimately destroyed her. Beat this July 23, 2011 when she was found dead after consuming excessive alcohol.
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The truth is that in the last years of her life, Winehouse had already exhibited several erratic behaviors, refused to undergo rehab, and starred in several scandalous moments that have long made the tabloids. All of these situations reached a point of no return on June 18, 2011, when Amy gave one last disastrous concert at Belgrade's Kalemegdan Park in Serbia.
A career marked by excesses
Amy's second and final album, Back to Black, was released in 2006. Since then, Winehouse has constantly battled herself to stay away from drugs. Her addiction reached such a point that the Grammy Awards, where the barely 24-year-old singer won a competition with names like, emerged as the winner Beyoncé, Foo Fighters and a young Taylor Swift, He was unable to attend because his visa was rejected in time due to constant problems with the law.
12 years ago Amy Winehouse was found dead in her bedroom. The talented singer died of alcohol poisoning. He was 27 years old Portal/Alessia Pierdomenico/File
The coming years were no better. After his absence from the 2008 Grammy Awards, a video circulated in the media Amy Winehouse uses crack. Despite barely managing to stay on her feet, Winehouse continued to give performances around the world, and as expected, the vast majority of them were highlighted by Amy's terrible performance on stage.
A few minutes and even hours later he was reeling, barely managing to perform small verses of his own songs while his backup singers saved the show.
2009, the beginning of the end
How was Winehouse able to present himself for so long? Many point this out Raye Cosbert, who became the singer's manager shortly after the release of Back To Black. Cosbert had already worked with Amy when she was still touring small London bars, but now that Amy was the great product of the decade, it was necessary to exploit it by selling as many tickets as possible, regardless of quality the show that the show offered actors gave.
His father is also accused of Mitch Winehouseof having turned a blind eye to her daughter's obvious self-destruction, because despite all the chaos, the money continued to flow.
Attending an Amy concert between 2008 and 2009 was a serendipitous situation: sometimes an ominous Amy would take the stage, her voice raising goosebumps in the back row, and other times she could barely stand. Last year, Amy also had to deal with the divorce from the one she considered her soulmate: Blake Fielder-Civil, to whom she dedicated “Back to Black” and who was also the key to the singer's self-destruction process.
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