It's a well-known fact that the music industry does a poor job of protecting their artists from self-destruction. They seem more eager to make money than to protect the person behind the money. A good example is Amy Winehouse, the English soul, jazz, and R&B singer and songwriter. She is about to hit rock-bottom which is a shame for such a talented person. Winehouse is a textbook example of a troubled artist, she dropped out of school, and first started experimenting with drugs at a young age. Nevertheless her success is really big: she won 2008 Grammy Awards in the categories of 'Record of the Year', 'Song of the Year', and 'Best Female Pop Vocal Performance' for the single "Rehab", while her album "Back to Black" won in the 'Record of the Year' award and a nomination for 'Album of the Year'. Producer Mark Ronson's work with her won the award in the Producer of the Year Non-Classical category. The singer also earned a Grammy in the 'Best New Artist' category. She performed You Know I’m No Good and Rehab at the awards ceremony on February 10, 2008 via satellite, as her visa approval came through too late for her to travel to the US as a result of her drug past.
As you can see from the After & Before photo above, drugs are definately not making you more attractive. I hope Amy Winehouse somehow finds a way to get het act together so we do not have read her obituary on the Internet later this year.
