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Press Release |  28 Jul 2015 20:22 |  By RnMTeam

Amy Winehouse's first two albums, æFrank' and Grammy-winning 'Back To Black' get digitally re-mastered by UMe

MUMBAI: Amy Winehouse's career, though meteoric, was unfortunately cut short by tragedy, but the multi-Grammy Award winner's musical legacy can now be appreciated anew with Island Records/Universal Music Enterprises' digital re-mastering of her first two albums. The sultry jazz-and-soul-tinged 2003 debut Frank, a testament to her love of singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Nina Simone, led to her commercial breakthrough, Back To Black, issued in 2006, which earned her a Best new Artist award at the Grammys the following years, as well as Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and the ultimate prizes, Record and Song of the Year for ‘Rehab.’ With five Grammy Awards, she was the first British female performer ever to win that many. Both Frank and Back To Black have been re-released in digital form to online retail partners June 30 on the heels of the critically acclaimed documentary Amy.

Additionally, rare remixes issued for singles from the Back To Black album – ‘Back To Black,’ ‘Rehab,’ ‘You Know I'm No Good’ and ‘Tears Dry On Their Own’ – released July 17 as digital e-singles; many of the remixes have been unavailable for several years.

Born in North London, Winehouse's vocal abilities were apparent from an early age, and she began writing after picking up a guitar at 14. After writing for the World Entertainment News Network as a music journalist and singing for a local group, Amy was the featured vocalist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra when she was 16 in 2000. By 2003, she was signed to Simon Fuller's 19 Management, which developed her while she sang jazz standards at clubs in and around London.

Frank: Winehouse's debut album, released October 20, 2003, was named after her father Mitch's favorite singer – Sinatra, the Chairman of the Board – as well as the honest nature of the lyrics. Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, Frank featured songs co-written by Amy as well as three covers, one of them a ‘hidden’ track, ‘Mr. Magic (Through The Smoke),’ a masterful reinterpretation of the Grover Washington Jr. hit ‘Mister Magic.’ Amy's composition ‘Stronger Than Me’ received the U.K.'s prestigious Ivor Novello Prize for Best Contemporary Song, while the album earned her two BRIT Awards nominations and was short-listed for the Mercury Prize; it went on to sell more than one million albums in the U.K.

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