THE SYLvIA YOUNG THEATrE SCHOOL, A 12 YEAr OLD AMY
WINEHOUSE WrOTE: "I HAvE A DrEAM TO BE vErY
FAMOUS...I WANT PEOPLE TO HEAr MY vOICE AND
FOrGET THEIr TrOUBLES."
AMY GOT HEr WISH, HEr STUNNING vOICE MESMErISED
MILLIONS BUT HEr OWN TrOUBLES SAW HEr TUrN TO
HArD DrUGS AND ALCOHOL AND SHE DIED FrOM
ACCIDENTAL ALCOHOL POISONING AT THE AGE OF 27
ON 23 JULY 2011.
second anniversary of the singer's death and reveals an intimate
side to the self-destructive wild child who was also, in the words
of her older brother Alex, "simply a little Jewish kid from North
London with a big talent."
Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait brings together bits and pieces
from the late singer's childhood and her stage-school years to her
career heights.
Several outfits are on display from the blue dress Winehouse
wore at the 2008 Glastonbury Festival to the tracksuits she wore
at home. Although the exhibition, which runs to 15 September,
focuses on family, tracing the singer's family tree back to her
great-great-grandfather Harris Winehouse, who came to England
from Belarus in eastern Europe in 1890.