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[loveAMYforever]

Oh, she looks like an sweet angel      

[amyinourhearts]

It's been a while since this was requested, but here it is: https://www.facebook...225353857156614

Can someone please transcribe this interview? English is not my mother tongue and the pic's quality is very low in my cellphone

[Carlo20]

Can someone please transcribe this interview? English is not my mother tongue and the pic's quality is very low in my cellphone

 

Not so long ago, Amy Winehouse was in trouble at school. Her deputy head-master told her she needed to learn discipline, but even though she buckled under, she thought he was wrong.
"If it's something I want, then I just do it."
She was being disruptive, she says, because she was frustrated: "I wasn't getting anywhere. I wanted to do something with this talent." She has wanted to go to stage school for some time, and in September, thanks to her scholarship from Sylvia Young, she will.
Friends at her old school, Ashmole Secondary School in London, were not surprised to hear she had won the scholarship and would be leaving at the end of the school year. "I'd told everyone I'd be going to stage school last year. So when I told them about the Sylvia Young scholarship they said: 'Oh yeah?' and when I told them I'd got in they said: 'Yeah, and?'."
One of Amy's most striking talents is her strong, bluesy voice. "My singing is my strong point. People expect me to have a sweet voice, so they're surprised when they hear it. I can sing soul, I can sing jazz."
But when she first sang in public - at a talent show competition put on by the Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade - her voice let her down. "I sang really badly. My mum says that the time she realised I had a good voice was when I was in Grease in year six, and sang Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee."
Around that time, she was training at weekends at the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School in Whetstone. She enjoyed it, but did not feel she was getting enough work out of it, so, on her own initiative, she left.
A year or so ago, she sang in an opera at Hampstead's New End Theatre, playing Marlene, an American girl with a strict mother who has just become a Jehovah's Witness. She has also appeared in a non-singing part in Don Quixote at the Coliseum.
"That was in front of 1.000 people, so it was pretty nervewracking," she remembers. "I had to run round the front and up a really tall ladder to the top of the scenery." But she found a way of coping with the jitters. "I felt that I was apart from them, it just didn't seem real. That's how I overcame it - just thinking I'm in a different world."
She loves performing, she says: "When I sing, I can feel the audience watching me, and it really gives me a buzz. At rehearsal, I'm quite lazy, I always feel it'll be all right on the night." All the same, she sometimes finds it hard to stop performing when she is not on stage. "I'll say something, and people will say you're not on the stage now - you can stop!"

[amyinourhearts]

Not so long ago, Amy Winehouse was in trouble at school. Her deputy head-master told her she needed to learn discipline, but even though she buckled under, she thought he was wrong.
"If it's something I want, then I just do it."
She was being disruptive, she says, because she was frustrated: "I wasn't getting anywhere. I wanted to do something with this talent." She has wanted to go to stage school for some time, and in September, thanks to her scholarship from Sylvia Young, she will.
Friends at her old school, Ashmole Secondary School in London, were not surprised to hear she had won the scholarship and would be leaving at the end of the school year. "I'd told everyone I'd be going to stage school last year. So when I told them about the Sylvia Young scholarship they said: 'Oh yeah?' and when I told them I'd got in they said: 'Yeah, and?'."
One of Amy's most striking talents is her strong, bluesy voice. "My singing is my strong point. People expect me to have a sweet voice, so they're surprised when they hear it. I can sing soul, I can sing jazz."
But when she first sang in public - at a talent show competition put on by the Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade - her voice let her down. "I sang really badly. My mum says that the time she realised I had a good voice was when I was in Grease in year six, and sang Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee."
Around that time, she was training at weekends at the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School in Whetstone. She enjoyed it, but did not feel she was getting enough work out of it, so, on her own initiative, she left.
A year or so ago, she sang in an opera at Hampstead's New End Theatre, playing Marlene, an American girl with a strict mother who has just become a Jehovah's Witness. She has also appeared in a non-singing part in Don Quixote at the Coliseum.
"That was in front of 1.000 people, so it was pretty nervewracking," she remembers. "I had to run round the front and up a really tall ladder to the top of the scenery." But she found a way of coping with the jitters. "I felt that I was apart from them, it just didn't seem real. That's how I overcame it - just thinking I'm in a different world."
She loves performing, she says: "When I sing, I can feel the audience watching me, and it really gives me a buzz. At rehearsal, I'm quite lazy, I always feel it'll be all right on the night." All the same, she sometimes finds it hard to stop performing when she is not on stage. "I'll say something, and people will say you're not on the stage now - you can stop!"

Thank you friend!