Amy Winehouse | My Camden

Amy Winehouse

Profession: Singer
Place/Date of Birth: Enfield, London , 14 September 2020
Associated with: Blake Fielder-Civil

"It bothered me when someone said, ’You used to be a role model for curvy women’. I was like, no actually. Go and have a go at Charlotte Church when she loses a stone," the 23-year-old is quoted as saying.

"People say you’re too skinny, it’s like saying you are too fat. It’s weight discrimination."

Other stars who voice their opinions in MTV’s The Perfect Body - which asks the public for their views on the ideal figure - include I’m A Celebrity’s Matt Willis who admits he hates seeing headlines such as "Fat Matt".

A spokesman for the show told the paper: "MTV stages its very own catwalk with models ranging from size 0 to 18 and asks an audience of real people their views on real bodies."

The Perfect Body will be shown on MTV on February 12.

Amy flees G-A-Y stage? - Jan 8 2007
It seems Amy Winehouse wasn’t feeling too well during her gig at London’s G-A-Y on Saturday night - she was apparently sick on the side of the stage.

The 23-year-old songstress stumbled through her first song at the nightspot before dashing off and throwing up, reports the Daily Mirror.

Her band continued for 10 minutes before realising the singer wasn’t going to return and the promoter announced she had a bad case of food poisoning.

An onlooker said: "Everybody started booing, heckling and stamping their feet when they heard she wasn’t returning to the stage.

"The crowd at G-A-Y is normally really up for it and friendly, but I’ve never seen them so angry before.

"To make matters worse, everybody had been waiting until 1.45am for her to eventually come on."

Promoter Jeremy Joseph said he hoped they wouldn’t have the same problems with Jason Donovan, who is appearing this weekend.

"We’re going to make sure there’s two buckets on the side of the stage, just in case," he added.

Amy ready to play UK - Dec 29 2006
Amy Winehouse is set to jazz up the UK with a string of live dates in the new year.

The 23-year-old diva starts her 11-date tour on February 17 and will play venues including the Manchester Academy and London’s Shepherds Bush Empire, reports NME.com.

After the success of her single Rehab, she’s also set to release her new single You Know I’m No Good on January 8.

A remixed version of the single is also in the pipeline and will feature Wu Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah.

The singer has also confirmed rumours that she’s going to write a song with Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty.

"I like writing songs, he’s an amazing songwriter and I’d love to say that I wrote a song with Pete Doherty," she said.

Amy will perform tracks from her debut album Frank and her latest album Back To Black on her tour.

The tour dates in full:

February
17 - Cambridge Corn Exchange
18 - Southampton Guildhall
19 - Cardiff University
21 - Birmingham Academy
23 - Liverpool Academy
25 - Manchester Academy
26 - Northumbria University
27 - Glasgow Academy

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Biography

Amy Winehouse hails from Osidge Lane, Southgate, although she currently lives in Camden. She is being feted as the new big thing with a voice likened to soul artists of the caliber of American soul queen Erykah Badu.

Amy and her brother Alex were brought up by her mum and grandmother, and fondly remembers ’Growing up in East Finchley was cool.’ She started playing guitar at 12 and listening to jazz. Her acceptance into the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School seemed to spell big things for Amy, although she was expelled at 15, apparently for getting her nose pierced. She carried on her studies at an all girls school in Mill Hill, which she hated as there were no fella’s there.

Amy made appearances with the Youth Jazz Orchestra, produced a demo tape of jazz covers that was picked up by Universal/Island Records, and they signed her almost immediately. She released her album Frank in October 2003 and supported Jamie Callum on his national tour. Amy then went on to be nominated for two Brit Awards, British Female Solo Artist and Best Urban Artist. Not bad for a girl of 20!
December 2007