Amy Winehouse

Amy-Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English soul, jazz, and R&B singer and songwriter.

Winehouse's debut album, Frank (released in 2003) was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Winehouse is a two-time Ivor Novello Award winner; once in 2004 for her debut single "Stronger than Me" and again in May 2006 - 2008 for the first single "Rehab" from her 2006 album Back to Black. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist (she had also been nominated for Best British Album).

On 17 July, Back to Black was announced as one of the 12 albums on the 2006 - 2008 shortlist of Mercury Prize nominees and later that year she was nominated for three MTV Video Music Awards.