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Amy Winehouse · S1 E1
September 14, 1983
Amy Jade Winehouse is born at Chase Farm Hospital in Southgate, North London. A cab driver's daughter with a voice nobody expects
Chase Farm Hospital, Southgate, September 14, 1983. A cab driver who sings Sinatra between fares holds his newborn daughter for the first time, and somewhere in that tiny body is a voice that will redefine British soul music.
Amy Winehouse performing live. The girl born in a quiet North London suburb grew up to deliver vocals this powerful, this effortless, this deeply rooted in jazz.
The Edge of London
Southgate sits at the far end of the Piccadilly line, where London fades into suburbia. Amy Jade Winehouse grows up here in a Jewish family that runs on music, loud opinions, and Friday night dinners. Her father Mitch drives a black cab by day and sings jazz standards by night. Her mother Janis works as a pharmacist, holding everything together while the house fills with noise.
“There was what he had in his car. And there were tapes at home. I would go to sleep listening to things like Sinatra and James Taylor.”
— Amy Winehouse
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Chase Farm Hospital, Southgate
The Ridgeway, Enfield, North London. The hospital where Amy Jade Winehouse was born on a Wednesday morning in September 1983, at the quiet edge of the city.
What Is It About Men
From Frank (2003). Over a deep house sample from Mr. Fingers, Amy dissects a pattern of men in her family: her grandfather left, her father left, and she watches herself repeating the cycle. She wrote this at nineteen. The song connects the family she was born into with the artist she became.
In which part of London was Amy Jade Winehouse born and raised?
Amy is born into a family that loves jazz, argues loudly, and splits apart when she is nine years old. Next: the divorce that cracks the Winehouse household in two and leaves its fingerprints on every song Amy will ever write.
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