Is life about to turn around for Amy Winehouse? First, she enters rehab and successfully gets through the difficult cold turkey portion of her treatment, and now she has become the most successful artist at this year’s Grammys, walking away with five awards.
Winehouse couldn’t attend the ceremony in Los Angeles due to difficulties in obtaining a Visa, so instead she performed via satellite in a London studio to her parents, and a small audience of fans.
Amy was at the Riverside studios, where she sang Rehab and You Know I’m No Good towards the end of the American awards ceremony, meaning it was nearer 4am here in the UK.
Even via satellite, Winehouse received a standing ovation from the LA crowd, to which she said:
“Thank you very much, it’s an honour to be here. Thank you very, very much.”
Any was then announced as having won Record of the Year for the glorious Rehab, which also won the 24 year old Song of the Year and Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Winehouse stood shocked as she took it in, before composing herself enough, hugging her mum (pictured) and dad, and then dedicating her award to them, her imprisoned husband Blake Fielder-Civil, as well as London itself. She uttered:
“To my mum and dad, for my Blake, my Blake incarcerated,”
“And for London, this is for London, because Camden Town is burning down.”
Brit Music Scene stalwart Amy also took home the Pop Vocal Album award for her album Back To Black, as well as the prestigious Best New Artist prize.
Her five Grammys made Winehouse the most successful artists at this, the 50th annual awards, beating the likes of Kanye West, with four awards, and Bruce Springsteen with three.
Let’s hope this truly is the start of a better period of life for Winehouse, as she seems to finally be realising who and what is important in life, and making a real effort to get off the drugs which have so far plagued her career and personal life.
Winning five Grammys must also make her see how much impact her music has had in the US as well as Britain, and that if she could just get clean, the world really is her oyster.
[Source: The Press Association]