Winehouse's European tour in the fall of 2007, however, was scheduled to continue. The August 21, 2007, announcement indicated that Winehouse had been ordered to rest and was working with doctors to address her health. The episode put a planned tour of North America on hold. First claiming exhaustion, Winehouse later told the News of the World that she overdosed after she had used a mix of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, whisky and vodka during a bar crawl in London.
On August 8, 2007, the singer overdosed on several drugs and was hospitalized. Winehouse, an admitted marijuana smoker, was dogged by reports of continued drug abuse and strange behavior. The couple eloped and married on May 18, 2007, in a ceremony in Miami, Florida. Winehouse revealed that her romance with the 23-year-old was the inspiration for several of the Back to Black tracks. In April 2007, Winehouse and Fielder-Civil were engaged. The album stayed in the Top 10 for several months, selling one million copies by the end of that summer, with "Rehab" becoming a top 10 U.S. It was an instant smash, hitting higher on the Billboard music charts than any other American debut by a British female recording artist in history. Less than a month after her BRIT win, Back to Black made its American debut. The album was also a critical success, winning the artist a BRIT award for Best Female Solo Artist and a BRIT nomination for Best British Album in 2007. The song "Rehab," which addressed her refusal to receive treatment for substance abuse, became a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom and earned the artist another Ivor Novello award for best contemporary song.
Instead, she dumped the company and turned the experience into the lead single for her second, critically acclaimed album Back to Black (2006). In private, their romance centered around drugs, alcohol and physical abuse.īy 2006, her management company finally suggested that Winehouse enter rehab for alcohol abuse. In public, the couples' arguments often devolved into fistfights and dramatic scenes. She also started a tumultuous, on-again-off-again relationship with music video assistant Blake Fielder-Civil who admitted to introducing Winehouse to hard drugs.
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Frank also hit double platinum status.ĭuring this time, Winehouse began developing a reputation as an unstable party girl, often showing up to her club or TV performances too drunk to sing a whole set.
The debut single on the album, "Stronger Than Me," earned the new artist an Ivor Novello award. The album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize as well as two BRIT awards for Best Female Solo Artist and Best Urban Act. Her debut album, Frank (2003), was a critically acclaimed mixture of jazz, pop, soul and hip-hop. The opportunity led her to a record deal with Island/Universal. That same year, she caught her first big break when a schoolmate and close friend, pop singer Tyler James, passed her demo tape to his label, A&R, who was searching for a jazz vocalist. But by the age of 16, Winehouse was expelled for "not applying herself" and piercing her nose. At the age of 12, Winehouse was accepted into the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School, and a year later she received her first guitar.