Sunday 29 July 2012

AMY WINEHOUSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_olf2z1l48          
Follow the link to hear an acoustic version of some some of Amy's greatest songs.                                                                                      

   Its been a year since my favourite female vocalist of the twenty first century Amy Winehouse passed. something in her voice touched my very soul.  The first year I was given Back to Black the album as a Christmas gift, i played a track every day for a year.

She had her own style, her own voice, no one sang like her or will again.  I kept praying for her to release a third album whilst alive but it did'nt come.  She never sang the song the same way twice, the sign of a true artist.

My one regret is that I never got to see her live, as she was already on a downward spiral when I discovered her. Would she have turned up, would she be sober  and able to sing, I would have listened anyway.

RIP Amy gone but not forgotten.

WHITNEY HOUSTON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k49K3b4vuwE

Have a look at Whitney's last outing in celluloid, a movie called Sparkle coming out in August 2012.  Her recordings did not do her voice justice. having been to the first concert she ever gave in the UK at Wembley Arena, I was so impressed by how much better she sounded live, how that little body held that powerful voice and could hold a note forever. RIP Whitney.