credits : Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse, the British pop soul singer is dead on the 23 July 2011. How said! It was almost inevitable.
The new didn't surprised the music world, Amy Winehouse, singer and songwriter could not
win the battle against alcohol and drugs that increasingly
overshadowed her talent.
"With her distinctive hairdo, lashings of eye
make-up and garish tattoos, Winehouse rocketed to fame that she could
not control."
Amy Winehouse
[1983-2011]
credits: unknown
via Google Images
"Amy Winehouse is
back! This wonderful singer and composer of soul, jazz and R&B is
finally back after almost 5 years of crossing hell! Her tour in Brazil has been
successful. Amy is finally back!
She has an incredible talent! She has such a gorgeous voice! She is
complex, unique, superb! Hope she's finally
back!"
She didn't! Amy Winehouse is dead of accidental alcohol poising at age 27! She will live in
her songs! Two albums 'Frank' (2003) and 'Back to Black' (2006), five Grammy
Awards in 2008.
Education:
Alcohol and drugs are a sad reality in our days.
Sometimes they are among some of our students at school.
Amy's life could be an important alert to discuss the theme in one or two lessons. Include this theme into your school curriculum.
Begin with an open discussion. Let your students to speak free. If they don't know Amy because she's dead some years ago. 12 years yesterday, July 23.
Amy Winehouse
créditos: via Rolling Stone
young Amy Winehouse
credits: Amy Foundation
Choose some songs by the singer and songwriter, and play it in the classroom. Invite your students to understand the lyrics by helping them to study the lyrics to understand better Amy's life.
There is the documentary Amy, Oscar winner 2016 based on true facts and documents. Her life was not easy. As Michael Jackson, she began to sing at a very young age. A father who explored her talent and a passive mother who didn't protect her.
Amy
Amy Winehouse documentary
Asif Kapadia, 2015
When the Amy Winehouse documentary came out in 2016 on theaters. At the end of the film, Amy's fans were with tears in their eyes. We could not left our chairs immediately. Her voice and images were so present in our memory.
Director Asif Kapadia took on the story of her life for the documentary Amy, and told in her own words along with previously unseen archive footage and interviews to tell the London performer's tragic story in her own words.
Prepare a road note to your students before displaying the documentary or watching on the internet or on streaming.
You can watch on HBO. A powerful and moving documentary on the short but electrifying life of British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse.
"An extraordinary, powerful work"
IndieWire
From director Asif Kapadia, featuring archival footage of the singer herself, plus interviews with Lauren Gilbert, Mitchell Winehouse, Janis Winehouse, Raye Cosbert, Tyler James, Pete Doherty, Tony Bennett, and more.
At the end, try to evaluate with a simple dialogue if they could
understand how sad is to die so young this way. And tell them the danger of drugs and alcohol with some true examples on young people.
*Note: Pay attention to the age of your students and level you are teaching.
Ya, I know, it's difficult to survive to some students. Often they have
a disturbed family, sometimes a father like Amy's father or a weak
mother.
I taught at some schools where the most part of the students had difficult lives caused by their parents vices.
Important message:
Try to open students eyes and show them how important it is to make the good choices for a better life and future.
Talking with their parents, students will show their parents how important it's attentive support.
I'm sure they will appreciate this life lesson!
A talented songwriter, an amazing voice, but to young to begin a singer career without a good family support.
On the way, she destroyed herself and
could not resist to such brutality. The
tabloids, the success, the sad love affair and the loneliness.
To me, she will be always 'unique' on her voice and
talent! She was an unhappy and lonely young girl. Perhaps to vulnerable and fragile to
face such a success.
"Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does"
Amy Winehouse
G-Souto
24.07.2011
update 24 July 2023
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