In many ways the antithesis of the Amy Winehouse as painted by the paparazzi, but simultaneously somehow strikingly similar. Like many young women in the music industry now, she seems switched on but refreshingly transparent. Walking into the dark club from the bright sunshine, Bromfield is incandescent. "She was like 'oh, I don't have any earrings and I really like your earrings.
I meet her at the Jazz After Dark club in Soho, a favourite bolthole of Winehouse and now something of a shrine to her, the walls covered in her portraits.īromfield notices one painting of the icon, in which she is wearing a pair of earrings she lent her during a shopping trip. But it seems a decade on, Bromfield is ready to talk about her Aunty Amy. All the other stuff is just noise."Īt the time of Winehouse's death, it didn't feel right to approach a 15-year-old to pay tribute. So, yeah, the Amy I know is a loving, caring, funny and an extremely talented person. And it's just everything around her was amplified and massive and big. Stor圜ast '21: Listen to all of the episodes released so far
She cooked meatballs all the time," Dionne laughs. That was like her thing and her purpose for life. "Amy was, like, made to be an amazing mum and an amazing wife. My mum noticed that, and Amy really wanted to kind of take me under her wing musically and just on a personal level," she tells me during Onstage With Amy Winehouse. "She just had a really, really close bond with me from a young age. She was best known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres, including soul, jazz, rock and roll and R&B. She helped her launch her first album, even joining her on Strictly Come Dancing as a backing singer to support her launch. Amy Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter. When Winehouse set up her own record label Lioness, Bromfield was her first signing. A decade on, the music icons closest friends and family, including her beloved mother Janis and father Mitch, will be coming together in a new BBC documentary tonight. Today marks the ten year anniversary of Amy Winehouses tragic death. "I kind of looked at her as a mother and a big sister… Aunty Amy, I mean, she loved it when I called her that." Amy Winehouses ex-girlfriend speaks out for the first time on the ten year anniversary of her death. The one who "Amy always put her best self forward to". The "Aunty Amy".ĭionne Bromfield, now 25, was Amy's goddaughter and musical protégé. Amy Winehouse was found dead in her bed by a security guard who had been appointed to look after her. Behind the instantly recognisable beehive, eyeliner and tattoos. We spoke to people who knew her, Joe Mott, Kim Dawson, Piers Hernu, her teacher Sylvia Young, former record label bosses, her biographer Chas Newkey-Burden, and countless critics such as Paul Gambaccini.īut I didn't call the one young woman who knew the singer like no one else. We wanted to find out about the real Amy Winehouse. People were devastated, her fragility so profound, and tears turned to anger and blame tragedies such as this can often turn toxic as grief mixed with the spotlight takes its toll. This is not the first gesture to memorialize Winehouse, though.Image: Bromfield performs with Winehouse during the tragic singer's last public appearanceĬovering celebrity deaths is part of the job as an entertainment journalist, but this was no ordinary pop star when Winehouse died, everyone had an opinion. In doing so, Amy memorializes not just the artist but also the human being behind the name Amy Winehouse. The film explores her life from birth to death, utilizing tools such as home videos, interview footage, family photos, and interviews with over a hundred people who knew the singer.
Amy, now playing in theaters, gives us a more in-depth view of Winehouse than was ever attainable during her lifetime. Around the world, people mourned the loss of not only Winehouse's extraordinary talent, but also of the life that she could have lived had she not been held captive in the clutches of addition. 4 percent (over five times the legal limit). In 2013, a coroner's report revealed that Winehouse's BAC level was. Nonetheless, the world was shocked when Winehouse was found dead at her London home on July 23, 2011, and when her cause of death was ruled to be alcohol intoxication. But exactly how did Amy Winehouse die? The singer and star of a new documentary, Amy, never tried to hide the fact that she struggled with substance abuse her breakout single "Rehab" was about this very topic, and her personal, professional, and legal issues resulting from her addiction were highly publicized. When Amy Winehouse passed away four years ago, she joined the list of talented musicians who were taken from the world far too soon.
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