THE CURSE OF 27 - 'Also Known as' THE FOREVER 27 CLUB [Part 1]

THE CURSE OF 27.

PART 1.

To Some People it's known as -  THE FOREVER 27 CLUB.

This is a sad and tragic story, regardless of our opinion on the different title's.

What is truly a tragic waste of talent and the loss of each individual, whom all share'd a lifestyle of fame, fortune and a tragic death at the young age of just 27. 

'The curse  of 27' is also known to some people as 'The Forever Club'. I'm about to pass on a true story, in my own words and my own outlook on a group of talented influential artist's all from far regions of the globe and representing all different genres of music, whom I have come to know and respect each artist individually for their unique talent and raise to fame.  Unique, they were in many ways... except one!

THEY ALL SHARE ONE THING IN COMMON - THEY ALL DIED AT THE  YOUNG  AGE OF JUST 27.

"Just To Name a Few in my lifetime"

Amy Winehouse

Jim Morrison

Jean-Michael Basquiat

Jimi Hendrix

Pete De Freitas

Janis Joplin

Pete ham

Kurt Cobain

Kristen Pfaff 

 Brian Jones

Robert Johnston

Richey Edwards

Ron McKernan

The Others....

Written from my own perspective on each individual that i have come to love and respect in their short lives, some pieces of information that I have researched  and combined into the best and most accurate circumstances of each and every artist above. 

From months of research and  vast amount of time I have spent piecing together  their lives and their deaths.  The many different opinions regarding the death of these talented people took months of work to try to determine how they met their tragic end, but even more important is WHY?

This is my story of a true & tragic group of people, with fame, fortune and had so much more to give to the world but unfortunately never lived past the young age of 27, tragically although their lives have been cut short, these ill-fated famous artists have all managed to cram more creative, talent and excitement into their short lives, than most of us will ever do, even if we live to be 120 yrs old.

 In Part 2 - "Amy Winehouse"  -  Remembering Amy....

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Black and Jewish Music, Kentucky Cabinets, Magician Posters

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Black and Jewish Music, Kentucky Cabinets, Magician Posters

By EVE M. KAHN

Framed sheet music has been hung throughout the Harlem restaurant Settepani, and the song titles and graphics at times caricature African-Americans.

John T. Reddick

Sheet music for “Smoky Mokes,” written by Abe Holzmann and based on black musical traditions, on display in Harlem.

 

A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics.

 

 

Guernsey’s

A 1929 poster promoting the magician Howard Thurston (1869-1936) is being auctioned by the collector Alan J. Kanter.

One 1898 cakewalk is called “Who Dat Say Chicken in Dis Crowd.” The music for a 1918 number, “Somebody’s Done Me Wrong,” is illustrated with a black pastor who has a gun concealed in his pulpit and is glaring balefully at his congregation. John T. Reddick, a Harlem historian who is African-American, has spent three years assembling the memorabilia on view. He has also pieced together how the neighborhood’s black composers, performers and music publishers collaborated with Jewish counterparts to sell ragtime, jazz, blues and patriotic marches.

 

The show (through Feb. 28), “Harlem’s Black and Jewish Music Culture 1890-1930,” is meant to demonstrate “a dialogue between like-thinking minds,” Mr. Reddick said during a recent preview.

He has pored over Manhattan directories and countless Web sites to determine which performers lived and worked side by side. One cluster of sheet music at Settepani covers the career of the composer Abe Holzmann, who studied with Dvorak alongside black composers and musicians like Will Marion Cook and Harry T. Burleigh. Holzmann’s output ranged from cakewalks to a presidential campaign march, “Get on the Raft With Taft.”

 

Mr. Reddick also owns piles of music performed by the Jewish singers Sophie Tucker and Belle Baker and written by black composers including Bert Williams, Eubie Blake, W. C. Handy and C. Luckeyth Roberts.

Songs that now sound offensive, like “The Darktown Strutters’ Ball” and “Dat’s Harmony,” reflect the composers’ understanding of their audience, Mr. Reddick said. “They’re playing to a stereotype,” he added, like contemporary hip-hop artists who have college degrees and stable families but pretend to be disaffected gangsters onstage.

Mr. Reddick will be leading music-theme weekend walking tours (offered through Harlem One Stop), starting at Settepani and winding past town houses, tenements and theaters where blacks and Jews rehearsed, recorded and performed.

 

AN OLD KENTUCKY CHEST

Before the Civil War, Kentucky cabinetmakers blended East Coast and Gulf Coast furniture fashions into a regional hybrid. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, in Winston-Salem, N.C., just paid an undisclosed sum in the six-figure range for one of the Kentuckians’ most famous chests of drawers.

The late-18th-century unsigned piece, made of cherry and tulip poplar, has bellflower and scallop inlays and flared cabriole supports that scholars call “bandy legs.” The craftsmen, probably based in Lewisburg, used inlay motifs popular around Baltimore and Charleston, S.C., and borrowed cabriole forms from New Orleans traditions.

 

The museum’s acquisition appeared on the cover of a 2000 book, “The Tuttle Muddle: An Investigation of a Kentucky Case-on-Frame Furniture Group,” published by the Headley-Whitney Museum in Lexington. The authors, Marianne P. Ramsey and Diane C. Wachs, found the names of a few woodworkers who could have produced the cosmopolitan dresser, including Gerrard Calvert, Peter Tuttle and John Foxworthy.

Clifton Anderson, an antiques dealer in Kentucky, owned the piece for about 25 years before selling it to the museum. Its maker, he said in a recent phone interview, “could have been a journeyman that traveled.”

 

The piece goes on view Friday, along with a handful of curvy-legged works by the Tuttle circle. The other major group of Kentucky furniture in institutional hands belongs to the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, which is closed for a multiyear renovation and expansion.

 

 

MAGICAL POSTERS

Alan J. Kanter, a retired food-distribution executive in Aventura, Fla., has long covered his walls with early-1900s posters for magicians. The performers commissioned portraits of themselves seeming to sever heads and coax witches out of caldrons.

 

Mr. Kanter, 65, also spent decades trying to develop a museum, theater and hotel with a magic theme, where he could display his collection. He considered sites in New York and Los Angeles, but could find no major backers.

“I could never get enthusiasm on the part of other collectors to throw in with me and really pursue this,” he said in a recent phone interview. He added that he was selling the posters now partly because of health problems.

 

 

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Previews start on Friday for a Sunday sale of about 60 posters from the Kanter collection, organized by Guernsey’s auction house in Manhattan. Estimated at a few hundred dollars to $85,000 each, they show renowned magicians like Harry Houdini and Harry Kellar escaping from chains, freeing clouds of white pigeons from baking pans and taking advice from red imps.

 

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A late-18th-century chest of drawers from Kentucky, purchased by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.

 

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Arab American National Museum

A halwah tin from the old Sahadi’s shop in the Little Syria section of Manhattan.

Mr. Kanter also bought posters for lesser-known acts, with headlines like “Mildred the World’s Greatest Mind Reader” and “Kar-Mi Swallows a Loaded Gun Barrel and Shoots a Cracker From a Man’s Head.”

 

Ten of the auction lots promote Howard Thurston, a popular magician who traveled with train cars full of equipment. The Kanter posters show Thurston conducting an orchestra of skeleton and demon musicians and levitating an assistant into a theater’s rafters.

Rory Feldman, a magician and historian who is planning to set up a nonprofit Museum of Magic in New York, owns a vaster collection of Thurston material. But he praised the Kanter works.

“They depict some of Thurston’s greatest illusions and moments from his career,” Mr. Feldman wrote in an e-mail.

 

 

RECALLING LITTLE SYRIA

Few traces remain of Little Syria, a Lower Manhattan neighborhood, except the community’s 1920s former church, the St. George Chapel of the Melkite Rite, at 103 Washington Street. On its creamy terra-cotta facade, now engulfed in scaffolding while a hotel is under construction next door, a colorful relief shows St. George spearing a dragon.

 

Little Syria largely vanished in the 1960s, as the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the World Trade Center swept aside its coffeehouses, recording studios, lace and pistachio importers and charities helping refugees. (It exists in virtual form at a Web site set up by preservationists, Save Washington Street.) Neighborhood artifacts have been reassembled for “Little Syria, NY: An Immigrant Community’s Life & Legacy,” a show that opens on Friday at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Mich.

 

Food packages, business ledgers, clothing, sheet music and restaurant menus on display convey the stories of Syrian immigrants who learned to cater to New York markets. The lingerie magnate Odette Barsa produced a huge variety of ruffled bed jackets, and the composer Alexander Maloof wrote reams of patriotic American songs.

In May the exhibition will travel to the 3-Legged Dog art center at 80 Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan, near the Syrians’ former church. The displays could be expanded for New York if more material comes to light.

“We’re being flexible,” said Matthew Stiffler, one of the curators.

 

 

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Interview: Haley Reinhart Wants Music Fans to Listen Up!

Interview: Haley Reinhart Wants Music Fans to Listen Up!

It’s an exciting time to be Haley Reinhart. The season 10 American Idol favourite recently released her new single, “Free,” off her soon-to-be released début record, Listen Up!. The song stays true to the jazzy, retro-soul songstress that we came to know on the singing competition a little over a year ago.
The singer has been on quite the press tour as of late, which included making her return to the Idol stage earlier this month, as well as appearing on the popular CW drama, 90210. Earlier this week, Reinhart graciously took the time to chat with me about her new single, having creative control on her album, and what she hopes her fans will take away from Listen Up!.
How does it feel to have your new single, “Free,” finally released?
Oh, I couldn’t be happier. It’s really amazing to finally have some of my own material come out. It’s been very fun. I’m eager to see the charts and wait to see what happens.
How has the reaction from your fans been about the song?
It’s really good. They find out so many things, like it’s crazy. They find out stuff before I do a lot of the times. With the song, they’ve been eager to see what is going to come from me and the sound. I think that they’re pleased with the direction. They agree and know it’s the right direction for me and it’s the kind of artist that I want to be.
I read that you first crossed paths with song “Free” last summer while you were on the Idol tour; what was your first impression of the song?
I had gotten a bunch of songs, and that was the one that I was like, “Wow.” You know, it just had a lot of different things that caught my attention. It had this hypnotic, kind of very retro, sultry vibe to it and it captivated me from the get go, from the first piano chord to the end. There’s a lot of different qualities about it that made it special, and I could just hear myself singing it thinking, “This is the path that I want to go down.”
Was the song’s impact on you something that came into play when it came to deciding which song you would lead off your album with?
Yeah, we just thought that “Free” was perfect on many different levels. For a first thing to come out and to maintain my artistry the way that I want to be represented, as well as letting it have these pop undertones and sending [the song] out to radio and having them take a listen and want to play it. We thought it was perfect in a lot of those different areas.
I think it’s a great first single for you, and I really enjoyed seeing you perform the song on American Idol (Top 10 results show) last week. How did it feel to return to the Idol stage to perform your own material?
That was so much fun. I got to see people that I spent so much time with and reconnect. Being able to come back with my own stuff, it feels great to know that I started on that Idol stage and I’m back doing my own thing.
You started out your performance in this giant birdcage, and I was wondering where the idea for that came from?
Most of the times with the whole album and the creative process, and the video and everything like that, all my ideas have been there. But this one, there’s been so much going on and Idol’s just been one of the things going down. And it’s so important, so we got Wade Robson to come in, creative director, and he actually had this idea for the birdcage. And I’m all about vision, so we made it happen. It’s huge, it weighed tons! It was really cool to actually see it in person and make it come to life.

It was a great visual when you hit the chorus and the cage rose up above you. I thought it was really perfect for that part of the song.
I’m glad you liked it. Yeah, I thought it would also connect with the words, lyrically, and just be a good, cool symbol.
Since you were in the same spot last year as the contestants, what kind of advice would you give them when they are given advice from their advisor's that they don’t necessarily agree with?
I met most of them and I talked with them briefly, but to some of them I told them, “There’s going to be so many opinions. They’re all over the place. And everybody’s entitled to one, but now it’s your job to take it all in, take what you need from it and move forward. And really your guts, your instincts, are really what’s going to lead you in the fast direction for you, so take the best advice that you can, but when all is said and done, what matters most, is what is right in your heart.”
Switching over to you new album, Listen Up!, which is set to be released on May 22, where did the album title come from?
I was doing a lot of the creative [stuff], like the album artwork at the same time, and I had this idea and it kind of coincided with the title. I’m going to have an exclamation, like I really just want it to be a known thing. Like, “Hey new generation, old generation, whoever, take a listen to this stuff.” I put a lot of hard work into it, it’s organic and raw, and has a lot of elements that I’ve grown up with, as well as being very modern and fresh. I just want people to give it a listen.
We don’t usually hear about singers coming off of Idol having a lot of creative control initially, but it seems like you have taken your project by the reins. How did you approach making this record with your recording team?
Starting off with tour, I knew in my heart that for me to be all over this project, which is the biggest thing of my life, having an album, being given this opportunity, I didn’t want to waste it or let it slip beneath me to do other written material. I wanted to be completely hands on with the process, and it went really well. I’m lucky to say that they let me wait until after the tour, and as soon as I got off tour and moved to L.A. and hopped right into the writing process. I flew all over the city and did a lot of speed dating for about three months and wrote the whole album – wrote about 30 songs in that period of time. It went really smooth.
When you’re starting to brainstorm a new song, do you usually start with the lyrics or the melody?
First and foremost, I like to fill out what I’m going to be talking about. I like telling stories. I think words are just as important as the melody, but they need to make sense and they need to have substance to them. They need depth.
Melodically, melodies always come very, very easy to me. Words do as well, I’ve been writing poetry since I was really young, but at the same time when you’re co-writing, the lyrics really need to come from both ends. Melody-wise, my melodies pretty much stuck through with all the material, because it just comes to me really quickly. I probably owe that to The Beatles and a lot of the great musical geniuses that I grew up listening to.
Since your lyrics are really important to you, are you drawn to certain topics or do you just go with whatever comes to mind in the studio?
I like to have a direction, they need to make sense. So in order for them to make sense, we have to create the story that’s going on. When I walk in, I always have an idea and the more and more that I got into the process, I’m like, “Al-right, I want to talk about this story about a girl and boy who are best friends. I’m in love with this guy, and I want to make him see that I’ve always been here for him. And any flaws that he thinks he has, I think they’re beautiful,” and we’d write a whole song about it. That one I did with busbee, called “What You Don’t Know,” it’s fun, you know. I like songs that take you on a journey and take you somewhere else and really sink your teeth into it.
What are you hoping that your listening audience takes away from your new record?
First of all, I hope that people of all ages will enjoy it. It’s great to know that Idol has a huge, wide-range audience. And that’s fantastic, because I wanted to be talking to a younger crowd as well as a much older crowd. I hope that everybody will give it a listen and really just see that I wanted it to be a very organic and natural experience. I want them to be able to get lost in it and relate to it. All the songs are very relatable. I know that people have gone through these kinds of experiences. I want them to be able to hear me and what I’m saying.
Over the weekend your music video for “Free” made it's unofficial début on the internet. From what I saw, it's just beautifully shot. I like the retro vibe and it seemed to really fit the song. Was the concept your idea or more of a collaboration with the director?
The director Christopher Sims, he’s fantastic. I gave him a full outline of what I wanted. He came back, had some minor tweaks in how he wanted to film it with the camera. Otherwise yeah, he went with my idea. Everybody liked it over at Interscope and 19, so we ran with it.
We got to go to an old-style diner, and Christopher had this idea of the camera spinning around, making this kind of whirling, spinning, crazy effect. Very difficult and very fun; it was a great challenge to be moving fast with heels and holding onto nothing. [laughs] It was really, really cool to see my vision come to light. It’s something I’ve dreamt of my whole life.

Was it surreal to be on the set of your own music video?
Oh my gosh, yes. I was in the best mood ever the entire day. We went through the ringer; it was a 19 hour day pretty much, 18-19 hours on set, but completely and utterly worth it. I was just so pumped the whole time, and then by the end of it when they were finally like, “It’s a wrap!” I just like cried a little, I’m not going  lie. And everybody around was just clapping, and they were all, “Oh my gosh, that’s so sweet!” I mean, I had a perfect team around me that I was working with and it just came together. Literally, I could walk through the gym of my high school and imagine videos. It’s just been a dream come true. I can’t even tell you.
Last question – how would you sum up the last year or so of your life?
Well before this last year and a half or so, I didn’t even know what the word “whirlwind” and that’s definitely a word I could use to describe it. It’s been incredible to be able to accomplish my goals at this young of an age. I’m 21-years-young. I’ve had my aspirations, knew I had to make this dream come true, and believed in myself. And knowing that every single aspect of my life has changed in the midst of one year, it’s just incredible. I’m taking it to the fullest and soaking up each moment.
Haley Reinhart’s new single, “Free,” is available now. You can pre-order Listen Up! on her official website.
Photo credit: Harper Smith

REMEMBERING - AMY WINEHOUSE – Part 3

AMY’S EARLY CAREER

Before going on to enrol at The BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology, Amy attended the Mount School, which is an independent selective technology school and is partly funded by the BRIT Awards and is located in The Crescent, Selhurst, Croydon, in London, England. As it was dedicated to education and vocational training for the performing arts, media, art and design and all the technologies that makes performance possible. The time she spent there perfecting her skills contributed to, and set her in great stead for thing to come in her early career, in the not too distant future, giving Amy her first big break for things to come in the music industry.

 

TRIBUTES to AMY

“The way tears are streaming

Down my face. Such a loss.”

“JESSIE J”

 “We have lost a

beautiful and talented woman.”

“RUSSEL BRAND”



A TALENTED MUSICIAN WITH A LIFE FILLED WITH MUSIC

With a very supportive family and a great track record, Amy Winehouse had the best possible start to her career. Amy attended some of the most respected stage schools that had her set her in good footing for the future and things to come, by then it was only a matter of time before the rising star loved by many found her way to the top in the glittering world of fame and stardom.

At first Amy’s arrival onto the music scene caused quite a bit of a stir amongst music enthusiasts, leaving everyone keen to find out exactly who this new artist was and where about she was from. In the beginning Amy’s cards were kept close to her chest until Amy herself was then ready to wow the crowds. And that was exactly what she done.



Before going on to enrol at The BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology, Amy attended the Mount School, which is an independent selective technology school and is partly funded by the BRIT Awards and is located in The Crescent, Selhurst, Croydon, in London, England. As it was dedicated to education and vocational training for the performing arts, media, art and design and all the technologies that makes performance possible. The time she spent there perfecting her skills contributed to, and set her in great stead for thing to come in her early career, in the not too distant future, giving Amy her first big break for things to come in the music industry.

Given Amy's natural, raw talent, her big break into the music industry was always on the cards for her. Amy’s first steps towards the music world came when her then boyfriend, a guy called Tyler James, decided to send one of her demo tapes to the A & R division of a record label, whose responsibility is talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists.

A short while after this in 2002, Amy Winehouse was signed to Simon Fuller’s `19` management. Simon Fuller is regarded as one of the most influential people in the recording industry today and has brought us Pop Idol and the various ‘Idol’ franchises.

So there’s no doubt that this surely meant only good things ahead for a talented Amy’s budding career, and the fame it brought for the much loved troubled star.

Simon Fuller


Simon Fuller (born 17 May 1960) is a British entrepreneur, artist manager and television producer. He is best known for being the creator of the Idol franchise, which was first seen in the UK under the name Pop Idol and created number one rated shows in other markets as well, including American Idol in the US. The franchise has been sold to more than 100 countries around the world. Fuller is also the co-creator and executive producer of the Fox TV reality shows So You Think You Can Dance, Q'Viva, and other U.S. and European TV shows.

Fuller first came to significance through managing the female pop group the Spice Girls He is currently the manager of performers and entertainers including David and Victoria Beckham, Annie Lennox, Steven Tyler, Lewis Hamilton, Andy Murray, Carrie Underwood, David Cook, Will Young, Emma Bunton, Lisa Marie Presley, Scotty McCreery, Cathy Dennis and Aloe Blacc. He is in partnership with the duo Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.

In 2007, Time Magazine named Fuller one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Fuller received the 2,441st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 23 May 2011. The 2012 Sunday Times Rich List values Fuller at £375m; making him the sixth richest music millionaire in Britain. In the Daily Mail in 2012, music promoter Harvey Goldsmith ranked Fuller at No.1 in a list of the greatest British Entrepreneurs, commenting; "he is a man of real vision".

REMEMBERING - AMY WINEHOUSE – Part 2

AMY`S EARLY YEARS

At the young age of only 9, Amy’s grandmother ‘Cynthia’ suggested to her that she attend the ‘Susi Earnshaw Theatre School’ in order to help her become better trained allowing her to fully express her natural musical talent and creativity. The more confident she became in her own ability and her love of music, Amy began to impress her friends and family by starting her own girl band called ‘Sweet & Sour’. Even though this was an amateur band, it was a sure sign of things to come from Amy as she showed her dedication to music and its various forms.

Amy’s Music Career

Amy’s Early career

Winehouse's greatest love was 1960s girl groups. Alex Foden her stylist borrowed her "instantly recognizable" beehive hairdo, and she borrowed her Cleopatra style makeup from The Ronettes. New York Times reporter, Guy Trebay, discussed the multiplicity of influences on Winehouse's style. Trebay noted: "her stylish husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, may have influenced her look."

She was a 5-foot-3 almanac of visual reference, most famously to Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes, but also to the white British soul singer Mari Wilson, less famous for her sound than her beehive. Winehouse's debut album, Frank, was released on 20th October 2003. Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, many songs were influenced by jazz and, apart from two covers; every song was co-written by Winehouse. The album received positive reviews with compliments.

The album entered the upper levels of the UK album chart in 2004 when it was nominated for BRIT Awards in the categories of "British Female Solo Artist" and "British Urban Act". It went on to achieve platinum sales and in the same year she performed at the Glastonbury Festival, the V Festival, the Montreal International Jazz Festival (7 July 2004, at the Club Soda), and on the Jazz world stage.

Amy Winehouse - 14^th September 1983 - 23rd July 2011

 

REMEMBERING - AMY WINEHOUSE!

Posted by: J R Chinn

Date:         5thy June 2012

The Life & Rise to Stardom of Pop Legend ‘Amy Winehouse’

ABOUT AMY

With a passion for music and a voice that was soulful, stunning and instantly recognisable, Amy Winehouse was a Jewish Girl from North London. On hearing any of Amy’s songs played on the radio, there would be no doubt in your mind that it was Amy Winehouse singing. Her following knew no bounds and her tracks became instant hits.

Everybody loved her, including radio stations. Her fans just wanted her to continue with the music that she clearly adored making for them, celebrities wanted to hang out with her, she was clearly a girl that everybody adored.

There was a lot more to Amy than met the eye, despite her often turbulent and fast-paced lifestyle. With her unique style and soulful voice that perfectly encapsulated her rock chick personality, and her much loved mix of attitude, her star quality and individuality.

As a result of her love-hate relationship with the paparazzi, she was one of the most talked about musicians in the media. As she made her way through a frenzied and raucous lifestyle, her every move was tracked by those keen to get a glimpse into the madness and turmoil that seemed to surround this troubled young star.

AMY’S EARLY YEARS

Born on 14^th September 1983 in North London, Amy Jade Winehouse spent her early life in and around Southgate where she grew up with her mother, father and older brother Alex.

She would often spend time with her brother, playing his guitar and singing. Due to this at the young age of just 13, Amy asked for her own guitar, and years of practice definitely seemed to have paid off, as she frequently played the guitar at high profile gigs later on in her life.

But before Amy found fame and all of the good and bad things that were brought along with it, life was relatively normal for the star. Her father Mitch was a taxi driver, her mother Janis was a pharmacist. When Amy was just 9 years old the couple later separated, but things remained amicable for the children’s sake.

Sharing Amy’s love of music, the whole family followed her to theatre shows, concerts and other music events. Her grandmother was even believed to have been romantically involved with the British jazz legend Ronnie Scott. This may well have been where Amy’s own passion and love of Jazz music came from and how it came to be such a major part of her music, along with soul music and her own unique take on various styles.

TRIBUTES to AMY

“Amy changed pop music forever. I

remember knowing there was hope,

and feeling not alone because of her.

She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”

“LADY GAGA”

“She was my musical soulmate and

Like a sister to me. This is one of

The saddest days of my life’

“MARK RONSON”

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