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Singer Amy Winehouse has been dead at her home in London on Saturday, July the 23rd. The -winning artist was just 27 years old, the same as Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. Winehouse shot to worldwide and acclaim following the release of her album Back to Black in 2006, which won five Grammy awards and became the third-highest album of the 2000s. She had spent years alcohol and drug addiction. This and other in her personal life affected her ability to perform and she was booed offstage for appearing too drunk to in 2011. She sang about her addictions and attempts to beat them in her smash hit Rehab, an of her gritty and honest songwriting.

Tributes from the world following her death show what a talent she was and how much she will be missed. The BBC said: “With her gravelly and eclectic , Amy Winehouse…won comparison with some of the great female singers such as Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone.” Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper wrote: “She was without the outstanding of her generation. Without Amy, there would have been no Adele, no Duffy and no Lady Gaga.” It added: “The loss of Amy Winehouse has robbed us of a young, if fatally troubled, life down in its prime. It has also cheated British music of a , at 27, whose best years surely still lay .” Singer Rihanna tweeted: “I am genuinely heartbroken…#DearAmy.”