Hello.I have question.Who are Amy’s favorite artists?
Her Myspace page lists some of her influences
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=21621016
She names some on here Album “Frank” (Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Nat Cole, Tony Benett, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles etc.)
The Shangri-Las, Lauryn Hill, Nas, Mos Def, Sarah Vaughn, Donny Hathaway, The Specials…
dinah washington,ella fitzgerald,minnie riperton, miles davis
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/homeentertainment/story/0,,1156918,00.html
Salt n Pepa
What she says in this article is so true about Jazz and good hip hop. I love her eclectic taste in music. Her record collection probably looks alot like mine.
Yeah those are the well known ones.
She must also like Ashford and Simpson
http://www.e-fansite.com/ashfordandsimpson/biography.html
and the Poindexter brothers:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/persuaders
She credits them as co-writers on Tears dry.. and He can only hold her which have interpolations from Ain’t no mountain high enough and My girl she’s a fox, resp.
That was a nice interview.
“Amy Winehouse looks and sounds like a product of her time and place, and then she comes out with something that makes you realise how unusual her fierce intelligence and depth of feeling is.”
When I first got my Frank CD I spent hours looking at her cd collections pic in the inlay.
now looking at it here’s the names I can read
beck (mellow gold, mutations)
rage against the machine
tlc
alicia keys
miles davis
beastie boys
the rocky horror picture show
nirvana
wu tang clan
ll cool j
talib kweli
thelonius monk
the roots
mahalia jackson
michael jackson
iron maiden
okay i lie on the last one.
the above quote continues… “Music is the thing that means most to me,” she concludes. “I love everyone in my life but you don’t get any shit with music. It’s pure beauty and there’s no small stuff attached. It’s an immense thing.”
I love this part of the quote also.
She’s able to express something so profound in such a succinct way (again)..