AMY WINEHOUSE BROUGHT DEATH UPON HERSELF

AMY WINEHOUSE BROUGHT DEATH UPON HERSELF – Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her northern London home, according to London police and ambulance crews who responded to the scene around 4 pm Saturday. Though police confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had been found dead in Camden, they did not offer a cause of death for the soulful, bluesy singer whose father said only days ago that despite going through some rough stuff, “the last few weeks she’s been absolutely fantastic.” Winehouse, whose second album, “Back to Black,” featured the hit “Rehab” and earned her five Grammys in 2008, had struggled with drugs and alcohol for years, recently canceling a European tour after being booed off the stage in Serbia. Her father Mitch Winehouse, who started a jazz-singing career only recently, tweeted Thursday that he was off to New York, where he was booked for two Monday shows at the Blue Note. His daughter came to most of his London performances, he’d told the New York Times. “She always gets up onstage and refuses to rehearse,” Mitch Winehouse said. “So we end up doing a couple of songs which are terrible. We just end up in fits of laughter. Everyone enjoys it because they can see we are enjoying it. “She’s very, very supportive and she’s a great kid and she’s going through some rough stuff at the moment, but the last few weeks she’s been absolutely fantastic.” Winehouse had been in and out of rehab over the years, and in and out of a relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, and in court over allegations that she’d …

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