Though her laid-back attitude frustrated Ashton, he was bowled over by her talent and once described her as having “the best jazz voice of any young singer I had ever heard.”
She made her debut at a Sunday lunchtime concert in July 2000 at a London pub called The Rayners Hotel amazingly, she didn’t rehearse with the band beforehand but learned the four songs she was to sing while riding the London underground on her way to the gig. When she was 16, Winehouse successfully auditioned for the UK’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, a long-established 22-member big band founded and run by Bill Ashton. As a teenager, she sang with a jazz orchestra Though the school’s £10,000 a year fee was beyond the Winehouse family’s financial reach, Young was so impressed by the young singer’s potential that she granted her a scholarship. For her audition, she sang Ella Fitzgerald’s “The Sunny Side Of The Street” and her performance was so mesmerizing that she was immediately offered a place. She attended a famous London stage schoolĪt the age of 13, Winehouse applied for a place at the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. Though the Sweet ‘N’ Sour tracks have never been released, the recording session was an important early step in Winehouse’s career. Invited to a London studio by producer Alan Glass, who was a friend of Ashby’s mother, they cut three hip-hop-style tunes: “Glam Chicks,” “Boys…Who Needs Them,” and “Spinderella,” the last song name-checking Salt-N-Pepa’s DJ. (Winehouse, in case you were wondering, was Sour). They were both obsessed with the American female rap duo Salt-N-Pepa and, inspired, dubbed themselves Sweet ‘N’ Sour.
Winehouse’s first time inside a recording studio happened in 1993 when she and a close primary school friend called Juliette Ashby decided to record some songs they’d written. What follows is a few facts that you may not have known about the immensely talented singer.įans are sharing their own memories and facts about Amy Winehouse across TikTok using the hashtag #BackToBlack. But while the general outline of Amy Winehouse’s career is relatively well-known, you may be surprised about some aspects of her life and career.
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