The winner of the 5 Grammy's!
Thursday, February 21st 2008
Do you know Amy Winehouse, who's won 5 Grammy's, including 3 major awards. Her album "Back To Black", produced by Salaal Remi and a popular DJ/producer Mark Ronson, provides you with a unique experience that goes beyond any genre categorisation.
Who would've thought Amy Winehouse would make it this big when she released her 1st album "Frank"? Now she's achieved too much in too little time, so let's sum up what she has got so far in bullet points:
Sales & Awards Granted
★ 50th Grammy Award: Song Of The Year "Rehab"
★ 50th Grammy Award: Record Of The Year "Rehab"
★ 50th Grammy Award: Best New Artist
★ 50th Grammy Award: Best Female Pop Album "Back To Black"
★ 50th Grammy Award: Best Female Pop Performance "Back To Black"
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★ "Back to Black" Went No.1 in the UK chart. Sold more than 1.1M copies
★ "Back to Black" Debut at No.7 in the US chart. Marked No.6 (i.e. the highest-ever chart position for UK female artist) At No.12 as of 18th Aug 07. The single "Rehab" went into Top 10.
★ BRIT Awards: Best Female Solo Artist.
★ The Ronnie Scotts Jazz Awards: Best Jazz Crossover Album Award
★ Ivor Novello Awards (British award programme to praise quality songwriters): Won twice - second time with "Rehab"
★ 2007 MTV Video Music Awards: Won Video of the Year, Nominated for Female Artist of the Year and Best New Artist awards.
Live Shows/ Gossip/ etc.
★ Jay Z directly called up Amy and asked her to let him do a remix of "Rehab" - the remix was released successfully.
★ Mark Ronson who produced "Back to Black" has released his own solo album that climbed up to No.2 in the UK chart.
★ Amy sang with Mick Jagger in the Stones' headlining show on the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival.
★ Played on Glastonbury Festival main stage along with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, The Fratellis etc.
★ Seems everyone loves Amy - from Elton John, Paul Weller, Rihanna, Ne-Yo, Suzanne Vega to Prince. Apparently Missy Elliott wants to collaborate with the singer.
Why So Popular...?
Amy is conquering the world at such a pace. But what makes her so special?
Is it her booze-ridden voice? Or her extraordinary make-up and fashion tastes? Or her genre-less sound?
Those factors certainly make her the unique singer that she is.
However that's just not enough to explain why she became such a huge success. The other factor is her way of living and her lyrics that directly reflect her life.
Her words talk of all her ups and downs in her turbulent life. For one thing, it is a well-known fact that the song "Rehab" is about her predicament of having to live with alcoholism while rejecting her management's advice to get into rehab to cut off the substance abuse.
Aside from her poignant story-tellings, Amy often cancels her shows at the last minute, performs poorly on stage, makes blatant comments to the press and acts rebelliously - just like any good old rock stars would do. The gossip-loving British public either lurve or go berserk at such demeanours or misdemeanours of hers, and she is now becoming a social phenomenon of some sort.
Then again Amy is allegedly suffering from bulimia/anorexia and not on her top form (she really is off right now to get her health back). Behind her stormy personality lies her fragility. This outrageous, scaturient side of her personality is manifest in her lyrics and music, and probably that is why so many people are attracted to her so much.
『Back To Black』
However, even without the knowledge of her background or her lyrics you can still enjoy her album "Back To Black" to the full.
Salaal Remi, who has worked with numerous hip-hop artists including Jurassic 5, and Mark Ronson, a renown hip-hop DJ and multi-instrumentalist from NYC, together analysed how rockn' roll, R&B and soul music in the 50's and 60's work and blended them all in a highly refined way to make this album so exceptional.
The production that is a fabulous mixture of the old-style music and the current R&B/hip-hop, the catchy melodies and Amy's husky, thick voice that resembles those of the old, legendary jazz singers - those elements merged together would surely satisfy any music lovers!
If you have not experienced Amy yet, you'd better go and give it a try NOW!
・Japanese official website
・UK official website
for Bronze / Gold / Platinum Stage.
Japanese Edition
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
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(tax incl.): ¥2,805Release Date:29/March/2007
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