"I had writer's block for so long," she said in 2007. "Frank" was followed by a slump during which Winehouse broke up with her boyfriend, suffered a long period of writer's block and, she later said, smoked a lot of marijuana. It earned Winehouse an Ivor Novello songwriting award, two Brit nominations and a spot on the shortlist for the Mercury Music Prize.īut Winehouse soon expressed dissatisfaction with the disc, saying she was "only 80 percent behind" the album. Her jazz-influenced 2003 debut album, "Frank," was critically praised and sold well in Britain.
She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, a factory for British music and acting moppets, later went to the Brit School, a performing arts academy in the "Fame" mold, and was originally signed to "Pop Idol" svengali Simon Fuller's 19 Management.īut Winehouse was never a packaged teen star, and always resisted being pigeonholed.
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