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July 23, 2011 at around 4 p.m., in Camden Apartments, London, UK.
British jazz diva Amy Wynnhouse was lying in bed, and her bodyguard, Andrew Morris, said she looked as if she was asleep, but in fact she had lost her breath.
On the floor next to the bed were two empty vodka bottles that had killed Amy Wynnhouse. The talented female singer, who is only 27 years old, was trapped in the sea of alcohol and poison before she died.
The person who recommended the drugs to her was her ex-husband, Blake Field, who had once loved her to death, and Amy once told her agent Ray Cosbert, "I feel torn in half and love is about to kill me."
However, before she met Blake, Amy's life was already a mess, and Blake said that she was not only an alcoholic but also a promiscuous person. Was it love or vice that ruined Amy Wynnhouse?
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Amy Wynnhouse was born on September 14, 1983, and is Jewish.
Her father, Mitchell Wynnhouse, was a taxi driver and her mother, Janice Wynnhouse, was a pharmacist. When Amy was one and a half years old, her father had an affair, but he did not divorce and continued to live with Amy's mother.
But people are absent-minded, he does not care about the family affairs, Amy said in an interview, after giving birth to her, her mother was a person to pull her up, and her father was only busy with his work.
When Amy was 9 years old, her parents divorced, and the originally well-behaved and obedient Amy had a big change of temperament from that time. She began to talk dirty, put on tattoos, punch holes in her body, skip school, and took her boyfriend home at the age of twelve or thirteen.
Amy's mother, Janice, doted on Amy, and Amy's selfish and willful personality was the result of her mother's blind indulgence, and after Amy's death, Janice admitted that she was not strong enough to make Amy stop.
Amy's musical talent is passed down from generation to generation, and her mother, Janice, was born into a jazz family with several jazz musicians, but Janice herself had little interest in music.
When Amy's grandmother discovered Amy's musical talent, she persuaded Amy's parents to send Amy to the Sylvia Youth Drama Academy. At school, Amy and friends formed a jazz band and started playing music, and at the age of 14 she began writing songs.
But at that time, Amy did not regard singers as a career choice, she just liked to sing and simply enjoyed the fun that music brought her.
She wasn't a good student at drama school. Instead, she was a problem student who gave the teacher a headache, and she was eventually expelled from school. Subsequently, she transferred schools several times.
In 2002, at the age of 19, Amy had a boyfriend who loved music as much as she did, named Taylor James, a singer. Taylor met with his agent, Nick Shamansky, one day and said that my girlfriend sang great.
After listening to it, Nick asked, do you want to go to the recording studio to try it?
Amy was confused when she learned of this, and she didn't know what to do in the studio. Nick explained that if you can write a few songs, we'll record them. But Amy said she didn't know if the things she wrote counted as lyrics.
Unbeknownst to Nick, he would unearth a jazz diva who would sensationalize the British and global music scene.
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Amy recorded two songs, her boyfriend Taylor sent the tape to several record labels, and ace agent Simon Fuller resolutely signed Amy to his "19" agency after listening to the tape, taking control of her agency.
Amy received a £250,000 contract, which was a sky-high price for her, and after signing the contract, she rented an apartment and moved out of the house, saying she wanted to play music loudly and smoke and drink alcohol indiscriminately.
Soon, various record companies began to notice this mysterious new star with a unique voice, Universal and EMI joined the signing battle, and finally Universal's Kojima Records signed Amy's record contract as desired.
In October 2003, Kojima Records released Amy's first album Frank, whose unique voice made her a hit and was nominated for the Brit Award for Best Female Vocalist in the UK.
It seems that overnight, the entire British music scene became aware of Amy Wynnhouse.
Although she became a public figure, Amy did not relent in her private life, she still liked to go to nightclubs with friends and drink without restraint, at that time, she was already addicted to alcohol and could not extricate herself.
At a bar, Amy meets a man named Blackfield, the two of them play billiards and drink together, then change bars to continue playing, and leave to return to Amy's house together.
At that time, Amy and Blake both had their own dates, but the two came together.
Amy said in an interview, "I didn't learn from Blake until I met him that if you don't pursue it, if you don't really start putting yourself in, you'll never know how good things can be, life is short."
Amy is hopelessly in love with Blake, and the two stick together like conjoined babies all day. They have similar childhood misfortunes, their parents are divorced, and in Blake, Amy sees her own shadow.
However, Blake's love for Amy was short-lived, and a few months later, he returned to his ex-girlfriend.
The lovelorn Amy is distraught, she ignores her job, ignores the warnings of the agency, locks herself in the house, drinks like crazy, tries to numb herself with alcohol, and finally falls at home because of drinking too much, and hits a large bag on her head.
Her agent, Nick, couldn't take it anymore and took her to the rehab center, but Amy pulled out her father, Mitchell, to shield her, and Mitchell told Nick that my daughter didn't have to go if she didn't want to.
Nick later said that if he had been tougher and forced Amy to walk into the rehabilitation center for treatment, maybe Amy's ending would not be the way it is now.
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In 2005, Kojima Records pressed Amy, and she finally realized the seriousness of the problem, began to put down the bottle, went to the home of her friend and record producer Salam Remy, and spent several days writing four or five songs.
With the experience of that lost love, Amy was inspired when she was creating, and wrote all the pain in her heart into the lyrics.
Perhaps Nick put too much pressure on her to ask the record label to change her agent, and she recommended her show planner Ray Kousbert to take over the agency.
Although the company did not understand why she was doing this, it agreed.
Changing agents became Amy's biggest mistake in life.
Ray Kouspert is not as aggressive as Nick, he turns a blind eye to Amy's vices, Amy is completely free, she indulges herself in alcohol, does not care about the ugliness of being photographed by the media drunk, does not care about the public image.
In October 2006, Kojima Records released Amy's second album, Back to black, her last album, which swept the charts in more than a dozen countries and topped the charts.
Amy Wynnhouse became the jazz diva of the global music scene.
The Blake who had abandoned Amy returned to Amy, Amy forgave him, and the two became entangled again.
In May 2007, Amy and Blake are married, and after the two return from their honeymoon at sea, Blake persuades Amy to try drugs, which is the real reason why Blake returns to Amy, and what he needs is someone to help him pay the bill.
One night in the middle of the night, Amy's girlfriend Juliet Ashby suddenly receives a call from Blake, who says that something has happened to Amy.
Juliet rushes to Amy's house and finds Amy unconscious.
Amy's former agent, Nick, also receives a call, asking Blake to take Amy to the nearest hospital right away, and when Nick arrives at the hospital, he learns from the doctor that if it arrives later, Amy may never wake up.
After the incident, Nick communicates with Amy's father, Mitchell, and asks him to send Amy to a treatment center for drug rehabilitation. However, Mitchell says he can't force Amy to undergo treatment, it's Amy's own responsibility, and she should cheer herself up.
Meeting such a father is really Amy's sadness.
In the end, Amy's record company shot again, Amy's album was shortlisted for the Grammys, the company gave Amy an ultimatum, if Amy could not quit drug addiction, the company terminated the cooperation with her and no longer sent her records.
For the sake of her own music career, Amy had to compromise.
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During that time, Amy was able to temporarily quit her addiction not entirely to the record label, but because Blake went to jail. Blake was arrested for assaulting a bar owner, and Amy spent £200,000 to get him out.
Because of the visa, Amy was unable to go to the United States to participate in the Grammy Awards Ceremony, but the organizers made a connection, and Amy in the United Kingdom also participated in the award ceremony.
What she didn't expect was that she won 5 Grammy Awards in one fell swoop and caused a sensation in the music scene.
What Amy's record company didn't expect, however, was that on the third day after the Grammys, Amy started taking drugs again.
She became skinny and in a very bad state. Because of the Grammys, the media paparazzi all over the UK are staring at her, which makes her very disgusted and disgusted, and often clashes head-on with the paparazzi.
The media nicknamed her "Queen of Poison".
In 2009, Amy, who had serious physical problems, ran to St. Lucia, where she began her rehabilitation, she put down the drugs but raised her glass.
What Blake didn't expect in prison was that Amy, who had loved him so much, had actually transferred his love in Saint Lucia, and he sued Amy, and the two divorced in July 2009.
After returning to England from St. Lucia, Amy's situation improved greatly.
In 2011, famed jazz singer Tony Bennett invited Amy to record the song "Body and Soul" with him, and Amy was very happy because Tony Bennett was her idol.
The collaboration was so successful that Amy had renewed confidence in her music and wanted to make a new album, but the company took on a number of performances and arranged tours for her, but Amy did not want to sing the tracks of the old album.
In order to fight against the record company, she deliberately got drunk before each performance and was ugly on stage. She thinks it's about fighting for her autonomy, but in reality she's ruining her career.
On June 18, 2011, on the first leg of the tour in Belgrade, Serbia, Amy walked precariously, not greeting the audience, but talking to her band members, and delaying in singing.
Finally, she began to sing, but not in one tune at all, and it was clear that she was already drunk.
Amy succeeded, she didn't need to participate in the rest of the tour, and the company canceled all the tours. But her career also came to an end, and she paid a heavy price for her willfulness.
After returning to London, Amy stayed at home every day and continued to get drunk.
On the afternoon of July 23, 2011, Amy Wynnhouse was found dead at home, with her blood alcohol levels more than five times higher than the upper limit for drunk driving, in addition to her drug abuse problems.
The 27-year-old Jazz Diva was thus destroyed.
Her bodyguard, Andrew Morris, said that the night before Amy's death, Amy told him that if she didn't have this (musical) talent, as long as she could walk down the street, carefree, she would be willing.
She loves music, loves singing, but doesn't want to be famous.
However, she did not understand that love, fame and fortune, are only external factors, the real control of her destiny is herself, ruining her career and life, but also herself.
Her whimsy is the culprit.
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