The singer Amy Winehouse died in 2011, but there are aspects of her life – short, when poisoning killed her at the age of 27 – that remain hidden. The book 'Amy Winehouse. From His Handwriting', published by Libros del Kultrum, brings together and analyzes several of his drawings, notes or manuscripts, to address his high school years, coming of age, his beginnings in writing songs and what remains of his I go through music.
Among the most interesting readings of the compilation are some metafiction games that planned for their musical creations. For example, her desire, not without satire, that she wanted to be a waitress on roller skates. Among the figures that she scratched on colored papers, which she often decorated with romantic hearts, a sketch of her in this profession was found, with a label: “Hello, my name is Waffle Waitress, I love waffles and I need to sell them. Please buy them. Those responsible for the edition, with a foreword by Janet and Mitch Winehouse, assure that “until she died, we did not realize that she had actually written a song about it (the desire to work as a waitress).”
Amy Winehouse manuscripts, with shopping list and song lyrics.
Amy Winehouse Foundation
Between the lines is the personality of the author of songs like 'Rehab'. She is a woman with a facility for poetry, with good writing and sudden inspiration, and a still immature mentality. Perhaps the design of the book is due to this freshness, with clear references to magazines for teenage girls in its tone and diagram, its cursive letters and its mosaics.
“I don't know anyone like me”
After “rummaging and rummaging through his notebooks,” his parents reveal what he was hiding in the privacy of his room. From their high school years, for example, they say: “Sometimes I feel filled with so much hatred that I can't control my temper and I literally force myself to lie down until I can calm down. It's just little things that sometimes get on my nerves (…) Is it worth allowing your friends to abuse you? », she asked herself on a class sheet.
Amy Winehouse as a baby and teenager, and a notebook with a song.
Amy Winehouse Foundation
In another excerpt, already linked to music, she comments: «I was never part of a scenario in which I was the leader of a small group of Jewish girls who sang jazz. “I don't know anyone like me (…) I've gone through times where I've been so screwed up by a situation I've had that I need to put it all in writing.” On another page she recognizes herself as “self-destructive.”
The book advances through ideas for songs, guidelines for concerts, self-portraits, informal photographs, notes on how to dress according to the occasion… until reaching the “Legacy”, the last chapter, which highlights the work of the foundation it carries. the name of the five-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter, dedicated to recovering people with addiction problems, like her. “We only said goodbye with words, I died a hundred times, you go back to her and I go back to black,” says the lyrics of her best-known song, 'Back to black'.
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