Kelly Osbourne and Winehouse were close friends for years before the singer's death in 2011. Kelly helped check Winehouse into a rehab facility in 2008 [via Daily Mail], as the musician had been struggling with addiction for years.
Despite their different careers—Amy as a groundbreaking musician and Kelly as a multi-faceted media personality—they shared a genuine friendship and a connection through their public lives.
How did Kelly Osbourne react to Amy Winehouse's death?
The 28-year-old star posted a photograph of her with Amy on her Instagram page, with the emotional caption: 'I miss you my dear friend! Thank you for all the good times and the bad... you made me a better person! You may not be here in person but you live on forever in my heart! I love you Amy!
We weren't friends or anything.” They only actually met briefly through a mutual friend, long after leaving the famous Brit School for performing arts in Croydon, which they attended at different times.
Amy was an avid pool player, and this was where she would indulge in her carefree years. The very same location appeared in her music video for the song “Stronger Than Me”.
Winehouse's tumultuous relationships, or rather one key relationship, took center stage. Enter: Blake Fielder-Civil. Winehouse and Fielder-Civil met in a pub in the singer's beloved area of Camden, North London, in 2005.
Gospel music had a major impact on Amy and her style of songwriting, stating she admired about "truthful" the genre was. Earlier on in her career, she had "been listening to a lot of gospel singers like Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. I love gospel, because gospel is so truthful."
“I'd started listening to Ella Fitzgerald and my brother had all the good stuff and he was like 'Dinah Washington', so I learnt to sing from Dinah Washington a lot. I learnt to sing from listening to stuff like Theloneous Monk and a lot of soloists rather than just listening to singers.
In 2007, Amy Winehouse and Ozzy Osbourne were photographed together backstage at the Mojo Awards in June of that year. 🩷🎶 Amy was great friends with his daughter Kelly Osbourne and she got to met Kelly's family hence why they met & were photographed together at this event.
What did Mark Ronson say about Amy Winehouse's death?
Nas turns 50, and Amy would've been 40. Thinking how me and my dad would've partied at Nas & Amy's amazing joint b'day.” Expressing the lasting impact of Winehouse's absence, the 48-year-old added: “We miss the Lioness so much but let's celebrate all the legends with some of her genius.”
On 1 April 2010, Osbourne and her mother Sharon joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of the Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community, as part of Lauper's True Colours Fund.
Of course, the influence of musicians such as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington is very apparent in Winehouse's music. She explained: “Sarah Vaughan is one of my favourite singers of all time. She was an instrument.
Sarah is eventually fired and forced to do a an alternative job of handling the slate during the filming of Kelly's video for "Shut Up.", to Sarah's dismay. That said she is gifted $10,000 for her services.
To go along with her inherent attitude, Juliette Ashby, her lifelong friend from the age of four, remembers that as a kid Winehouse always had her nose in a book. “She was so intelligent for her age,” she recalls. “She was reading all the time…not children's books, adult books. Always had her head down reading.
Romete added, per BBC, “She didn't want to die, she was looking forward to the future." The Grammy winner last spoke to her security team around 10 a.m. on July 23, telling them she was going to sleep.
In September 2021, Adele was accused by Brazilian composer Toninho Geraes of plagiarising his samba song "Mulheres" ("Women"), recorded by Brazilian singer Martinho da Vila in 1995. After the lack of responses from Adele's representatives, the song's author said he would take the case to court.
Amy Winehouse performing with Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2007. They famously sang "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" together on June 10, 2007. The performance was considered the highlight of the festival and an iconic moment in music history.
Adele's song, 'Million Years Ago,' is a powerful ballad about missing the things you enjoyed and loved when you were younger. Sadly, people in Brazil will no longer get to take a trip down memory lane with the emotional song because it has been banned nationwide in a ruling made by Judge Victor Torres.
What did Marilyn Monroe say about Ella Fitzgerald?
Marilyn once said, “Well, my very favorite person, and I love her as a person as well as a singer, I think she's the greatest, and that's Ella Fitzgerald.” The feeling seems to have been mutual. “She was an unusual woman,” Ella said.
When Winehouse passed away, Gaga spoke out about the singer's positive influence on her career. She told the ladies of The View on August 1, 2011 that she couldn't speak for 48 hours because she was so devastated after learning about Winehouse's death.
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