Amy Winehouse ( Amy Jade Winehouse) was born on 14 September 1983 is an English soul, jazz, and rhythm and blues singer and songwriter.

Her debut album, Frank (released in 2003) was nominated for the Mercury Prize. She won the Ivor Novello Award in 2004 for her debut single "Stronger than Me" and again in May 2007 for the first single "Rehab" from her 2006 album Back to Black.

On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. On 17 July, Back to Black was announced as one of the 12 albums on the 2007 shortlist of Mercury Prize nominees and later that year she was nominated for three MTV Video Music Awards and "Mejor artista nuevo internacional" or "best international new artist" in Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica.

The singer's drug and alcohol abuse and bulimia became regular tabloid fodder in 2007. Winehouse received her first guitar when she was thirteen.

By age sixteen she was singing professionally after her friend soul singer Tyler James sent her demo tape to an A&R person. She signed to her current record label Island/Universal under Simon Fuller's management company 19 Management.