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Amy Winehouse’s Final Stage Appearance With Goddaughter Dionne Bromfield
Sun Jul 24 2011 by Idolator Staff
It's been nearly 24 hours since the terrible news of Amy Winehouse's passing broke, and even though we've re-watched her strongest performances and peeped her most stunning photos, we're no closer to being able to say good-bye. It's all too easy to remember Amy by her recent concert debacles, in which she appeared too inebriated to perform, but footage of her final on-stage appearance — joining goddaughter Dionne Bromfield to dance along to The Shirelle's "Mama Said" — shows that even a few days before her death, Amy was coherent and seemed in high enough spirits. Watch below and tell us — does this look like a woman who was destined to die at 27?
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Amy Winehouse Has Another Day Like This
Mon Oct 12 2009 by Maura
Perpetually troubled singer Amy Winehouse returned to performing on TV over the weekend on the UK show Strictly Come Dancing, where she was a backup singer for her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield’s performance of the Shirelles classic “Mama Said.” Bromfield’s performance sort of gave me the eerie feeling that I’d get when I watched Winehouse sing live before her well-documented troubles—technically she sounded pretty spot-on, but the 13-year-old singer’s performance was somewhat lifeless. (You couldn’t really tell if the “days like this” of which she sang were truly dark, or just, like, days when she’d burned her toast.) As for Amy, well, she started off strong but then faltered, flailing out of sync with the two backup singers flanking her; there were many points during the performance when I was wondering if her microphone had even been turned on. Clip after the jump. More »
