Amy Winehouse
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From Patti Smith's web site:
"AMY JADE WINEHOUSE
September 14, 1983 - July 23, 2011
She was a rare thing. She was fresh and she was deadly. I had such affection for her voice. She possessed something of Timi Yuro, Toni Fisher, Dinah Washington. So many singers we have all loved.
Amy was born on my late husband Fred Sonic Smith's birthday. He would have appreciated that a musician of such merit shared his day. Now she joins him and all our precious artists that we have lost much too soon.
Of what propelled her toward self destruction, I can say little. How can one person really know the pain of another? But of her voice, this is something I can speak of. No one can dispute that she was as good as any of them, any of the greats that is."
She included this video... strangely appropriate: