There are some authentic soul singers out there today but they are undergound.
The band that Amy uses has a singer that they normal use and she's a great soul singer. I don't recall her name at the moment but I can research it. She writes new songs but they have such an old feel to them. Amy has some talent but it doesn't always show in her live performances.

I still Can't believe she's in rehab...even after she had made a whole song about not going to rehab...... wow.... werid hu....

She's awesome!!!

I like her music, her voice is a different matter. She has personal issues like you wouldn't believe. One of her backing singers is one of the best singers out there at the moment.

I love Amy Winehouse. I went out and bought Stronger Than Me as soon as it was released and then, after some less successful singles, she disappeared for a couple of years. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard about her making a comeback and I rushed out to buy Rehab. :p:

I was lucky enough to see her live this summer. She was just incredible. I'm pretty sure that she was completely sober and she looked like she was really enjoying herself.

I'm genuinely worried about the girl. She's got so much potential and I don't want her to let it go to waste.

Love that woman!!! I just hopes she doesn't over-party...know what I mean?!

my older brother listens to it like it's some earth-shattering music. i can't dig it though honestly. :nono:

I really don't like her music, and I really don't like how the middle-aged white women in my area have flocked to her like she's this amazingly creative be-all end-all phenomenon. She does alot of covers (Me And Mr. Jones?!?), and her original music is kind of annoying. I think she'll fade out before too long. I certainly wouldn't consider her Jazz. She's just a part of this neo-pop thing going around where all the big fads have some sort of quirk to them.

BBC NEWS | England | London | Winehouse is arrested by police

I am deeply aggrieved. :(

It comes with the territory, atleast she's an interesting celebrity in retrospect. I ****ing hate these british comedy sketches that twist her lyrics about, i was watching one the other day with the perfect example of what a **** pun is, 'my dad tried to make me mow the lawn and i said mow mow mow' it was something **** like that anyway. She needs to be left the **** alone, great singer, and she is hardly boring to read about so what the **** is wrong with her exactly?

Why?

Don't get me wrong here.
I've no qualms about her arrest.
The reason I'm pissed off is down to the fact that she pouring an incredible talent down the toilet.
Her antics go from bad to worse.

right track, Ive been meaning to listen to her for awhile, but i have no clue what to "buy"

Two albums.
'Frank' and 'Back To Black'.

Check out the youtube vids for one off covers of some all time classics too.

oh, i finally found an Amy Winehouse thread:)
I actually really really like her, her last 2 albums were both wonderful, i think she has a very soulfull voice....i cant stand when people all say they hate her just becuase of her drug problems

I don't hate her because she has drug problems....I hate her because she has an awful voice live.....and just in general her voice annoys me....the only thing I like about winehouse is that she brought to light some of the other underground artists out there that are singing new soul songs with that classic soul sound

Name, names.
I'm not being awkward...I'm genuinly interested...

oh, sometimes when i hear her live, i cringe, for sometimes she sings so horribley, but on her album, her voice is absolutley amazing

honestly I haven't researched it but after I saw a MTV news special I've been meaning to look into more than just Sharon Jones and the Dap kings.

Yeah I agree. The song is fine but it is soul music not Jazz or Blues.

We didn't have a soul forum when this thread was made

And she'll say she'a jazz singer if asked.

I'm not an expert but to me she has much more in common with the jazz singers of the 50s than she does with soul singers.

With all the cocaine and trumpets.

Exactly...she started her career singing jazz and is heavily influenced by 50's jazz singers.
She's a jazz singer, singing soul...at least on Back to Black.

haha...was that a reference to Billy Holiday?

She's a crackhead...

Actually I was quoting Simon Amstell =x but sure!

You think Winehouse is fucked up?
You should read up on Billy Holidays lifestyle.

That does not make it good.

Odds are if you wrote a song about others saying you should go to rehab there might be a problem.

Hmmm. Did you have a R & B forum?

Seems like this is classic R & B to me.

I don't remember saying it did.

But her Daddy said she was fine!

Here is fine

Oh Yeah!! her daddy did ;-)

i love her! i love her style her sound her voice shes awesome

she is getting so much crap b/c of drugs but oh well she can ****in sing live!

****, When was celebrities taking drugs ever a bad thing anyway, There's plenty of great celebrities that were far more ****ed up on drugs than her, Just look at Iggy, Did anyone hold it against him? no, damn it. It's like they've made a gimic out of her drug taking, like there aren't people taking drugs all over britian, **** we're the only ones on our street who aren't taking drugs, and that's only since we found out Nat was pregnant. **** it! She's great mun, I'm sick of only hearing about her drug addiction. It's ridiculous.

David Bowie

And if it wasn't for him trying to get Iggy clean I doubt we would have had the Raw Power , The Idiot or Lust For Life albums

I remember reading somewhere, that if it wasn't for Bowie, Iggy was set to quit music totally.

Well then Bowie is just a hero:)

How about this she is entering rehab.
Amy Winehouse Enters Rehab - Amy Winehouse : People.com