Amy Winehouse (London, 1983 - 2011) British soul singer and songwriter who was one of the great figures in the recent history of the genre. Endowed with prodigious vocal qualities that led to her dizzying success, Amy Winehouse swept the 2008 Grammy Awards by winning five of the six awards for the second album of her discography, Back to Black, one of the best albums of the decade. A victim of drug and alcohol addiction and her own self-destructive personality, the singer died prematurely three years later, when she had practically ruined her career.