The biggest buzz from the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas this year wasn't so much the Fratellis or Bloc Party , but a 23-year-old British jazz singer named Amy Winehouse.In February, she won a Brit Award for Best British Female Artist.
This week, Rolling Stone named her to a short list of 10 artists to watch in 2007.
Her second CD, "Back to Black" will be released April 16.
She's incredibly hot. And she can sing. And she'll cross over to several charts (and burn the shit out of them).
She is not Britney Spears (thank God).
She was on Letterman a few weeks ago, singing the first single off "Back to Black," "Rehab" (Sirius began playing it on Alt Nation this week). Here's that video:
Here's the video for "You KNow I'm No Good:"
And here's something just for fun; Amy singing with Paul Weller on Jools Holland's Hootenanny:
2 comments:
I really like her! She's got a rough quality to her voice.
YES!
I was flipping channels on the TV in my hotel room in Antwerp and after seeing that damn Akon video for the 100th time (why was it following me across Benelux?) up comes some vintage footage of good ol' Aretha.
Belting it out. Yes sir.
And I thought "Why can't anyone sing anymore?" They can work all sorts of crazy tremelo and other fandangoroni, but nobody seems to mean it.
Flip flip flip.
Then I stop. Funky guitar. Huh? Dap Kings? Then that raspy voice. Amy who? I scribble the name down on the hotel stationary.
Back stateside, Youtube fills in the details. Wikipedia reveals it WAS the Dap Kings (a ha!).
OK, so there is hope for sisters who can sing it.
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