Taking a photographer, Blake Fielder-Silwell visited the grave of his wife Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse, husband Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil: a dangerous affair

This post is in memory of Amy. True music connoisseurs will forever remember her talent.

10. At the age of 10, Amy had her own group - Sweet-n-sour. What's unusual is that it was a rap group. “Of course, I was the sour one in the duet,” Winehouse recalled about those times. Already in photographs of children and youth, a rebellious spirit is visible.

9. At the age of 12, Amy was kicked out of the most prestigious theater school Sylvia Young in Maryborne for nose piercing and disobedience. Already in her childhood, Amy showed her hooligan character.

8. Her father left the family quite early, but this did not stop Amy from getting a “Daddy’s girl” tattoo on her arm, which translated means “Daddy’s daughter.”

7. Blake Fielder-Civil was more than just a husband to Amy. As the singer herself said, he was in a sense a muse for her. But their life cannot be called happy - Winehouse kept ending up in clinics with a diagnosis of nervous exhaustion.

6. In 2008, a video appeared on the Internet in which Winehouse allegedly smokes crack. After which Universal made a statement that Amy urgently needed to go to a drug treatment clinic.

5. She became the first Jewish woman to organically fit into rap culture. Her creativity and undeniable talent were noted by such famous rap artists as Pharoah Monch and Jay-Z, who remixed “Rehab”.

4. Winehouse entered the Guinness Book of Records as the first and last British singer to receive five Grammy awards in one go.

3. Before her death, Amy had not taken alcohol or drugs for several weeks. She told her father: “Dad, I’ve had enough of drinking. I can’t look you and the other family members in the eyes anymore.” She was happier than she had been in years.

2. Amy's mother once said that, in her opinion, Amy would not die a natural death. Moreover, she believed that drugs would be the cause of her daughter’s death.

1. Unfortunately, the cause of death of the greatest British singer modernity. Various assumptions have been made, but the police cannot say anything concrete. Amy Winehouse died alone at the age of 27...

On September 10, the film "Amy" is released - a biopic about the life of British singer Amy Winehouse, who died four years ago. The premiere of this documentary evoked applause from critics and the indignation of her father. Amy's story is in a special material HELLO!.

Amy Winehouse was found dead on July 23, 2011 at her home in Camden, north London. She died at four o'clock in the evening and for several hours after her death she lay alone, surrounded by empty bottles of whiskey. She was 27 years old.

A simple Jewish girl from the outskirts with in a beautiful voice- a contralto who can sing with a black accent has become a European star of white soul. She was recognized even in America - the homeland of true black soul. True, they didn’t want to let her into America for bad behavior (they don’t give drug addicts a visa to the States, even if you’re at least a three-time star), and she accepted her five Grammy awards for the album Back to Black virtually - via teleconference from London. Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black was released in 2006, but she hasn't released one since then.

The last years of her life looked, alas, sad: it was already difficult to determine what Amy Winehouse became more famous for - achievements in pop music or photographs yellow press, in which she appeared ugly and drunk. The newspapers regularly described her clashes with her husband, video editor Blake Fielder-Civil (until he was imprisoned for theft), reported how she disrupted concerts, how she disrupted an entire tour because she could barely stand on her feet... To her terrible end, Amy Winehouse flew at full speed. Everyone understood this, but no one could (or maybe they didn’t try enough) to stop her.

Amy Winehacks's style, which is now called iconic, was not formed all at once: Amy began to draw thick arrows immediately, and the famous babette grew on her head gradually

Authors of the documentary film "Amy", director Indian origin Asif Kapadia and producer James Gay-Rees interviewed a whole crowd of people who knew the singer in one way or another - relatives, friends, promoters, managers... They all express on the screen their confidence in their innocence tragic fate Amy Winehouse and they find their own versions of why, even being in a state of insanity, she continued to go on stage and earn money. The most poignant moment of the film is connected with the personality of Amy's father, Mitchell Winehouse, whose role in the fate of the pop diva is presented by the authors as quite contradictory.

It is known that Mitch Winehouse was one of the most important people in Amy's life: on her forearm she wore a tattoo of Daddy's Girl - " Daddy's girl". An ordinary London taxi driver, an amateur singer, obsessed with jazz and classic American pop, Mitch passed on his passion to Amy, and all these musical styles- soul, rhythm and blues, gospel, swing - entered her flesh and blood. Mitch was always by Amy's side: he took her to hospitals, protected her from drug dealers, and was both a friend and a nanny for her. In an interview with The Guardian, Mitch recalled that his relationship with Amy was sometimes too trusting. For example, she told her dad about her attempts to conceive a child with Reg Traviss, her new boyfriend (shortly before her death, Amy thought she was pregnant), and one day, while lying in the hospital, she sent her elderly father to the Agent Provocateur lingerie store, and he went and bought her what she asked for. While caring for his famous daughter, Mitchell never forgot about himself. Next to her, he himself became a celebrity: he often appeared on television, created own show on the Internet and released solo album. ("Amy always told me, 'Dad, you're great singer", he explained.)

During Amy's lifetime, Mitch Winehouse was going to launch a reality show about her touring activities, and after the death of his daughter, he published his memoirs, and this book stayed at the top of sales in the UK for two whole weeks. Mitch, however, claims that the proceeds from the sale of the memoirs did not go into his personal pocket, but into the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which he heads (the foundation supports drug rehabilitation programs). “Amy’s family only took her personal funds and nothing more,” he said.

Mitch Winehouse has big complaints about Asif Kapadia's film about the white soul star, which received a harvest of positive reviews from viewers at the Cannes Film Festival. He willingly took part in the work on the painting, but at the last stage he abruptly stepped aside. In his opinion, the filmmakers chose a false perspective in covering Amy’s troubled life and completely distorted his, Mitch Winehouse’s, worthy image, presenting him as a vain and greedy man, putting money and fame above his daughter’s health.

Director Kapadia, naturally, does not share this opinion. "When we made the film, we knew a lot of people weren't going to like it, but it's all about Amy, what was going on around her, about the people around her," he says. The assessments of the film by its participants (and there are dozens of them) also vary quite significantly. Even among Amy Winehouse's beloved men there is no consensus on this matter. Amy's dear friend Reg Traviss found himself in the camp of the film's enemies, and her ex-husband and main love Blake Fielder-Civil, on the contrary, considers the film to be completely objective, reflecting the events as they really were.

It is interesting that Amy’s beloved men, who have different views on the events of the past, had different personal fates. Blake Fielder-Civil, after leaving prison and Amy's death, unexpectedly became a respectable everyman: he gave up drugs, acquired common-law wife and children and lives quietly in provincial Leeds. Reg Traviss his family happiness I haven't found it yet. He had several girlfriends, and one of them accused him of rape in 2012 (but Reg managed to prove in court that it was consensual sex).

Which of these two unreliable types the viewer can trust is, of course, a moot point. In “Amy,” in addition to the revelations of the singer’s loved ones, dozens of other evidence (photos, amateur and home videos) are provided that should help Amy’s fans draw their own conclusions.  The Russian premiere of the film will take place on September 2, the opening day of the Contemporary Documentary Film Festival "Center" at the Documentary Film Center.

In 2014, Amy Winehouse's parents, Mitch and Janice, unveiled a bronze statue of their daughter in the market square in Camden, the area of ​​London she loved most. Mom and Dad divorced when Amy was ten (Mitch left for another woman), and it is believed that this trauma affected her entire life. later life. However, Amy was equally close to both her mother and her father. In an interview, Mitch Winehouse said that he still cries about Amy. “When we get together as a family, we cry and then laugh, because she always made us laugh,” recalled the singer’s father.

At the unveiling of the bronze monument to Amy Winehouse, her parents, Mitch and Janice, tried to look cheerful

Amy and Blake

They met in a bar in Camden in 2005 and married in 2007.  Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil were a troubled couple. Shortly after the wedding, a photographer accidentally photographed them together on the street - battered, bruised and bruised. It was assumed that the spouses had gotten into a fight. When fame came to Amy, many temptations arose. A year after Amy's death, in 2012, Blake admitted that he introduced her to hard drugs. This revelation became fatal for him - the public did not forgive such an atrocity. Blake is now persona non grata in the UK. newspaper Daily Mail he admitted that he could not find a job, since everyone considered him to be the culprit in Amy’s death. "Amy wouldn't approve of the way I'm being treated," he complained. In 2012, Blake visited the grave for the first time ex-wife(Amy's parents were against his presence at the funeral), but this also turned into a scandal. After seeing the report in the newspaper, Mitch and Janice said that having a photo op at their daughter's grave was disrespectful to Amy's memory.

Blake Fielder-Sivel finally visited his ex-wife's grave, nearly three years after her death. The singer died in July 2011 from alcohol poisoning at the age of 27, but Blake did not find the courage, he said, to come to her burial site.

And so, having prepared well, taking a photographer with him, he visited the cemetery Edgwarebury Lane in North London, where Amy is buried next to her grandmother Cynthia Levy. To his credit, he spent about two hours near his wife’s grave, sometimes sitting right on the asphalt.

The only thing that bothers me is that I passed right through the cemetery. photoshoot .

Blake posed for a photographer right in the cemetery

It should be noted that the marriage of Amy and Blake has always caused controversial feelings among the singer’s fans. They were arrested several times, caught with drugs. And it was he who put Amy on heroin, which Blake honestly spoke about in one of his interviews last year on the Jeremy Kyle Show.

Amy and Blake married in 2007 after two years of dating.

“Yes, it happened through my fault. I myself gave her the first try of heroin after visiting one of the nightclubs. At that moment, I didn’t think that she would start taking it without me, I didn’t think about anything at all. Subsequently, we got used to using heroin after going to clubs..." Interestingly, Amy's parents do not blame him for their daughter's death now. According to them, they have forgiven him and consider him only indirectly responsible for the tragedy.

Amy Winehouse was a difficult child. She was expelled from both regular and theater school.

The reason was rude behavior, bright appearance, singing in class, poor academic performance and drugs. Amy wasn't worried. She planned to become a singer, and if that didn’t work out, a waitress. Together with a friend, she came up with the duet Sweet"n"Source, the girls came up with songs in the style of r"n"b.

The only one in the family who understood Amy Winehouse was her grandmother. She took her granddaughter to a tattoo parlor for the first time in her life, drank beer with her on the porch of the house and listened to her songs.

The beginning of Amy Winehouse's career began with her acquaintance with singer Tyler James - thanks to him, she signed a contract with EMI studios, and already in 2003 her first album Frank, named after the favorite performer of the singer’s father Frank Sinatra, was released. However, the singer herself remained dissatisfied with her work, despite the fact that the public received the record very positively. Amy Winehouse became a discovery in the world of music and quickly gained fans both among critics and ordinary listeners.

Amy Winehouse's talent and habits

Amy Winehouse successfully climbed the career ladder show business, but quickly fell down the ladder of drug addiction and alcoholism. In parallel with her performances and recordings of songs, the talented Winehouse disappeared in hospitals, being treated for drug and alcohol addiction.

In August 2007, she canceled all her appearances due to health reasons. Together with her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, she went to a rehabilitation clinic, from where she escaped five days later. The girl’s parents believed that the reason for her lifestyle was her husband, a musician and slacker. At the same time, Fielder’s relatives suggested that her fans organize boycotts until the couple broke up.

Concerts of Amy Winehouse, who rapidly gained popularity, were awaited all over the world. However, her lifestyle prevented her from developing in creatively. The US Consulate refused Amy Winehouse while visiting the country, when the singer was invited to the ceremony Grammy. Amy Winehouse was one of the award nominees and ultimately the winner. Amy won in five out of six categories in which she was presented.

Record of the Year - Amy Winehouse, Rehab
Song of the Year - Amy Winehouse, Rehab
Best new artist— Amy Winehouse
Best Female Pop Performance - Amy Winehouse, Rehab
Best Pop Album - Amy Winehouse, Back to Black

Amy Winehouse was included in the Guinness Book of Records in 2009 as having won greatest number Grammy awards among British performers.
During that fateful Grammy ceremony in the biography of Amy Winehouse, Amy expressed her dissatisfaction with the help of a television broadcast, without denying her alcoholism and passion for drugs. Immediately after this, she decided to take another course of rehabilitation at the villa famous singer Bryan Adams. And this did not help her, and after a short time she ended up in a clinic, where she was diagnosed with pulmonary emphysema.

Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil: a dangerous affair

Amy met her future husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, in one of the English pubs; after two years of romance, the couple got married, but their family did not last long.

In 2008, Amy Winehouse's husband was sentenced to 27 months in prison for attacking a pub owner in Hoxton. In prison, Blake Fielder began divorce proceedings. After serving time in prison, Blake, upon his release, began to demand six million dollars from his ex-wife, believing that part of her fortune belonged to him. After a short showdown, the couple again began to appear together at parties, but after a while they separated completely.

Amy Winehouse: scandals

Another high-profile scandal involving Amy Winehouse was the cancellation of her concerts in Istanbul and Athens in the summer of 2011. After her first June concert in Belgrade, the organizers were forced to cancel all of her subsequent performances. The fact is that the singer, when she went on stage, behaved unnaturally and even inappropriately. She greeted Athens first and then the New York crowd. When Amy Winehouse began walking on stage, she could barely stand, staggering and constantly stumbling, trying to communicate with her musicians. While singing the song, I got confused about the words and partially forgot the lyrics. As a result, the twenty thousand audience booed the singer. According to some reports, this “concert” lasted one hour and eleven minutes, during which Amy never sang. At some point, the singer even fell on stage and immediately ran backstage, but returned back 10 minutes later. Fans of the singer noted that Amy Winehouse's behavior was caused not by alcohol, but by drug intoxication.

Just in May, a month before the start of the tour, Amy Winehouse was in a London clinic offering treatment programs for alcohol and drug addiction and providing psychological assistance.

Shortly before this, Amy Winehouse dumped her new boyfriend Reg Traviss. Winehouse proposed marriage to Reg, but he refused the proposal. He decided to end his relationship with the singer after he realized that he could not help her return to normal life. After such a loss, the singer lost complete control of herself.

Goodbye Amy

On July 23, Amy was found dead in her London apartment. Amy's mother admitted that she met with her a day before her daughter's death, and even then she looked as if she was “from another world.” However, the mother is still unable to comprehend the loss of her 27-year-old daughter.

A few hours after death of Amy Winehouse music fans have already contributed talented singer in the infamous "Club 27", which includes blues and rock musicians who died at the age of 27: Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplig, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Brian Jones.

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Ex-husband Late singer Amy Winehouse Blake Fielder-Civil is still in a coma after a drug overdose, The Daily Mail reports.

Fielder-Civil, 30, was taken to a Yorkshire hospital after he was found unconscious by his wife Sarah Aspin. According to her, when her husband returned home after the party, his behavior seemed strange to her, and she immediately suspected that he had taken drugs.

Two weeks ago, Blake was released from prison, where he was sent in early 2011 for burglary using a fake weapon. He was sentenced to 3 years, but he was released after a year. Fielder-Civil's mother believes her son may have attempted suicide after reading a text message from Amy Winehouse to his mobile phone more than a year ago. In prison, he was not allowed to have his own cell phone, so he did not know about the SMS that had been kept for many months. Returning home, he accidentally came across his old phone. In a message, Amy wrote to him that she would like to become godmother for his newborn son Jack, who is now one year and 3 months old. This text message made a big impression on Blake. He admitted that he missed Amy greatly.

Blake's mother was worried about his life last year when Amy Winehouse's death became known. “Blake will kill himself,” she kept saying. According to her, her son always wanted to return to Amy; they could not part completely.

Fielder-Civil is a drug addict and alcoholic with many years of experience. He met Amy Winehouse in 2005. He worked as a cameraman. The young people were married for two years and then divorced after a series of high-profile scandals related to alcohol and drugs. It was rumored that they were going to get married again, but this never happened. great joy the singer's parents. It is known that shortly before her death, Amy often called her ex-husband and sent SMS messages, which were always signed “your wife.” And this despite the fact that he married someone else, and she married Reg Traviss.

The singer's father, Mitch Winehouse, accused Blake of getting his daughter hooked on drugs. He didn't even let him go to Amy's funeral. Blake himself once admitted that he “introduced” Amy to heroin, crack and amphetamine. "We can't live together because of drugs. normal life. And that’s why I have to let her go,” he said, explaining why he was the first to file for divorce. Another reason was her infidelity. At the same time, Blake said that he dreams of reuniting with Amy when they are both cured of drug addiction.

Following the news of his hospitalization, Winehouse's father tweeted: "Terrible news about Blake. Remember Amy loved him. Let's pray for his recovery."

As Blake's wife, Aspin, said, doctors do not give any predictions regarding his health. "Right now they are keeping him alive and trying to prevent the infection from developing. I am praying for him to survive, but I understand that he may never wake up," Aspin said.

Amy Winehouse was one of Britain's most successful pop stars. She has received five Grammy Awards. at the age of 27 years. A forensic examination revealed five times the alcohol limit in her body.