Amy Winehouse collection

The beehive piled high, the eyeliner flicked up into a comma and a contralto voice straight out of a girl group 45: Amy Winehouse is recognizable in three notes! Born in London in 1983, the British singer imposed her laid-back jazz phrasing right from Frank in 2003, before confirming it with Back to Black in 2006, a retro soul record produced by Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi and carried by the horns of the Dap-Kings. Rehab, You Know I'm No Good, Love Is a Losing Game, Tears Dry on Their Own: songs written with a scalpel, where biting humor sits alongside heartbreak without ever overdoing it. Five Grammy Awards collected in a single evening in 2008, including Record and Song of the Year for Rehab, sealed the place of a repertoire that fits into two albums. Her death in 2011 closed the discography on those two records alone, and that is plenty: the phrasing of Rehab and the horns of Back to Black still run through the soul music of today.