Top 10 Celebrity of the Year 2011:

Quick Facts about Adriana Lima:• Birth Name: Adriana Francesca Lima
• Stage Name: Adriana Lima
• Birth place: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
• Birth date: June 12, 1981
• Height: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
• Hair color: Brown
• Eye color: Blue
• Measurements: 86-61-89 (34-24-35)
• Nationality: Brasilian
• Ethnicity: White
• Husband: Marko Jaric (2009-present)
• Children: Valentina Lima Jaric
• Occupation: Model

 Adriana Lima (born June 12, 1981, Salvador, Bahia) is a Brazilian model, best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000, and as a spokes model for Maybe line cosmetics from 2003 to 2009. At the age of 15, Lima finished first in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" competition, and took second place the following year in the Ford "Supermodel of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City. She is married to Serbian basketball player Marko Jaric.

Quick Facts about Ashley Tisdale:Birth Name: Ashley Michelle Tisdale
Stage Name: Ashley Tisdale
Birth place: West Deal, New Jersey, America
Birth date: July 2, 1985
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Nationality: American
Ethnicity: White
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Occupation: Singer, Model and Actress, Song Writer, Executive Producer, Spokesperson.
Category: Pop, Dance pop, teen Pop
Years Active: 1997 to Present
Instruments: Vocals
Awards Won: MTV Movie Award 2009 and Nickelodeon UK Kids choice Award 2007.
Ashley Michelle Tisdale (born July 2, 1985) is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpie Evans in the High School Musical film series. The High School Musical series became a successful franchise which included two television films, a feature movie, a spin-off and numerous soundtrack albums. The popularity earned by Tisdale in High School Musical led her to sign a solo record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 2006. Her debut album Headstrong, was released in February 2007, and debuted at number five in the U.S. chart and sold 64,000 copies in the first week. It was later certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. A second studio album, Guilty Pleasure, was released in 2009.

Quick Facts about Bar Rafaeli• Birth Name: Bar Rafaeli
• Nick Name: Barz
• Stage Name: Bar Rafaeli
• Birth place: Hod HaSharon, Israel
• Birth date: 4 June 1985
• Sign: Gemini
• Height: 1.74 m (5 ft 8.5 in)
• Hair color:  Blond
• Eye color:  Blue
• Measurements: 35-24-35
• Nationality: Israeli
• Ethnicity: Jewish, Israeli
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• Age: 26 Years
• Occupation: Model, actress
• Years active: 2001 – Present
• Assets: Amazing Body, Big Tits
• Hobbies: Surfing, Singing, Dating Movie Stars
Bar Rafaeli  is an Israeli model and occasional actress, most known for her modeling work and for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She was the cover model of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Bar Rafaeli was born into an Israeli Jewish family in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Her parents, Rafael and Tzipi, own a horse ranch. Her mother was a successful Israeli model in the 1970s under her maiden name, Tzipi Levine. Rafaeli has three brothers. She began a modeling career at the age of eight months, appearing in commercials. Rafaeli had to wear braces in her early years, interrupting her modeling until age 15, when she returned to modeling with the representation of Irene Marie Models.

Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian film and television actress. Cuthbert is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series Popular Mechanics for Kids. She had her first film role in the 1998 feature film Airspeed. She followed this up in 2003 with a role in Old School and starred the following year in The Girl Next Door. She has also had starring roles in the 2005 House of Wax film and the 2007 horror film Captivity. Her most prominent role is as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series 24.
When she was nine, Cuthbert started modeling for various lines of children's clothing and also became a foot model. She made her first televised appearance as an extra in the horror-themed series for children Are You Afraid of the Dark?; she later became a series regular on the show. Cuthbert also co-hosted Popular Mechanics for Kids, which was filmed in Montreal. Her reporting captured the attention of then–First Lady Hillary Clinton, who invited her to visit the White House.

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Quick Facts about Jessica Alba:• Birth Name: Jessica Marie Alba
• Stage Name: Jessica Alba
• Birth place: Pomona, California, U.S.
• Birth date: April 28, 1981
• Height: 1.72 m
• Hair color: Brown
• Eye color: Brown
• Measurements: 33-26-36
• Nationality: American
• Ethnicity: White
• Husband: Michael Weatherly (2000-2003), Cash Warren (m. 2008–present)
• Children: Honor Marie (b. 2008)
• Occupation: Model, Actress
• Years Active: 1994–present

 Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba raised to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002). Alba later appeared in various films including Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck both in 2007.
Alba is considered a sex symbol and often generates media attention for her looks. She appears on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim and was voted number one on AskMen.com's list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007. The use of her image on the cover of the March 2006 Playboy sparked a lawsuit by her, which was later dropped. She has also won various awards for her acting, including the Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role in the television series Dark Angel.

Quick Facts about Karla Henry:• Birth Name: Karla Paula Ginteroy Henry
• Stage Name: Karla Henry
• Birth place: Limay, Bataan, Philippines
• Birth date: May 23, 1986 
• Height: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
• Hair color: Black
• Eye color: Brown
• Measurements: 86-61-89 (34-24-35)
• Nationality: Philippine
• Ethnicity: White
• Occupation: Model, beauty pageant
• Title: Miss Philippines in home Ground Philippine, Miss Earth in Asian Region
Karla Paula Ginteroy Henry (born May 23, 1986 in Limay, Bataan, Philippines) is a Filipino-Canadian beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Miss Earth 2008 in her home country, the headquarters of Miss Earth organization becoming the first Philippine representative and the first in the Asian region to be crowned as Miss Earth.

Quick Facts about Mandy Moore:• Birth Name: Amanda Leigh Moore
• Stage Name: Mandy Moore
• Birth place: Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S.
• Origin: Orlando, Florida, U.S.
• Birth date: April 10, 1984
• Age: 27
• Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
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• Ethnicity: White
• Spouse: Ryan Adams
• Occupation: Singer-songwriter, actress, model, fashion designer
Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore is an American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer.
Moore became famous as a teenager in the late 1990s, after the release of her teen-oriented pop albums so Real, I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore. Her most recent album, Amanda Leigh, was released on May 26, 2009.  Moore has sold more than 10 million records worldwide.
Moore subsequently branched out into film, starring in 2002's A Walk to Remember and later in other movies, such as Chasing Liberty, Saved! And License to Wed. Most recently Moore provided the voice of Rapunzel in Tangled.
Her private life, including her relationships with tennis player Andy Roddick and with actors Wilmer Valderrama and Zach Braff, as well as her marriage to singer Ryan Adams, has become the subject of media coverage. As a whole Mandy Moore’s portfolio can be summarized as:

• Professional Singer.
• Her younger brother, Kyle, was an extra in her music video "Candy." They also have an older brother, Scott.
• She had hosted her own daytime MTV series during summer 2000.
• Wants to be a news reporter.
• Expressed her thoughts on revealing clothing and how she feels she doesn't have to display her midriff like such peers as Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears. However, she displayed her midriff in a two-piece bathing suit for the May 2001 cover of YM.
• She's a Neutrogena spokesperson.

Quick facts about Miranda Kerr:
Birth name: Miranda May Kerr
Date of birth: April 20, 1983
Place of birth: Gunnedah, Australia
Background: Serbian, Iranian, Turkish and Filipino descent
Height: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Measurements: (US) 34-24-34
Dress size: 34 EU/4 US/6 UK
The Austrian born beauty!
Miranda May Kerr (born April 20, 1983) is an Australian model best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels since mid-2007. She is the first Australian to participate in the Victoria's Secret campaign and also represents Australian fashion chain David Jones. Kerr began modeling in the fashion industry when she was 13, starting at Chaay's Modelling Agency, and soon after winning a 1997 Australian nationwide model search hosted by Dolly magazine and Impulse fragrances. when she was younger, she used to race motorbikes and ride horses on her grand-mother's farm! Little miss dare devil!
She is married to actor Orlando Bloom with whom she has a son, Flynn.

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HOT CELEBRITIES: Jessica Alba Welcomes Second Daughter Haven Garner

FacebookTweetJessica Alba and husband Cash Warren have added another little girl their brood: baby Haven Garner Warren.

"She was born on Saturday, weighed 7 lbs. and was 19 inches long," Alba wrote on her official Facebook page, announcing the happy news. "Healthy and happy! Big sister Honor couldn't be more excited about the new addition to our family."

"Thank you for all of your support during my pregnancy," the post continued. "It means the world to me."

Daughter Haven joins big sister Honor, 3.
Alba first announced her latest pregnancy via Facebook and Twitter in February. Shortly afterward, both she and Warren shared their happiness online as well.

"Can't tell you how much the positive tweets mean," Warren wrote on his Twitter at the time. "Smiles from ear to ear. lots of love back at cha."


Alba, 30, added via her account at the time: "I can't thank you enough for all of the wonderful messages you sent me today."

HOT CELEBRITIES; Britney Spears parte vendiendo 10 mil entradas y Jessica Alba da a luz a su segunda hija

Britney Spears parte vendiendo 10 mil entradas

Hubo rubias como ella. Fans de Britney Spears que sueñan con verla cantar Toxic en el Estadio Nacional y que pasaron la noche frente al Teatro Oriente, para ser las primeras en comprar boletos para su recital del 22 de noviembre en el recinto deportivo. Y hasta las seis de la tarde de ayer ya se habían despachado 10 mil entradas, a través del sistema Punto Ticket.

La cifra incluye los boletos comercializados en el Teatro Oriente, un punto de venta especial para todo público que se abrió sólo por el domingo. Más las entradas compradas a partir de la medianoche de ayer, cuando comenzó la preventa por internet sólo para clientes del Banco de Chile, que se extenderá hasta el sábado 27, con un 20% de descuento, según afirman los organizadores del concierto.

Los tickets van de $ 22 mil a $ 295 mil y la venta general se vuelve a abrir el domingo 28.

Jessica Alba da a luz a su segunda hija

La actriz estadounidense, protagonista de "Valentine's Day" anunció la noticia a través de Facebook.
La actriz estadounidense Jessica Alba dio a luz el sábado a su segunda niña, Haven, según informa hoy el portal "People".

La protagonista de "Valentine's Day" anunció la noticia a través de Facebook. "Sana y feliz. Su hermana mayor Honor está fuera de sí de contenta con la recién llegada a la familia".

Alba, de 30 años está casada desde 2008 con el productor de cine Cash Warren. La pareja tiene otra niña de tres años.

Red Hot Chili Peppers dará concierto en vivo desde Alemania para distintos países

En nuestro país Chile, el recital será transmitido vía satélite por el Teatro Nescafé de las Artes.

La banda estadounidense, Red Hot Chili Peppers, ofrecerá un concierto en vivo en Alemania, que será transmitido en directo en más de 900 teatros alrededor del mundo, durante su semana de lanzamiento,

El show será emitido desde la ciudad alemana de Colonia, el martes 30 de agosto a las 21 horas por Splinter Films y será presentado al mismo tiempo en teatros de alta definición de los Estados Unidos, Canadá, Europa y Latinoamérica.

El grupo funk-rock que integran Anthony Kiedis (voz), Flea en el bajo, Chad Smith en batería y el guitarrista Josh Klinghoffer, realizan dicho evento en el marco de la celebración de su décimo disco -"I'm With You"- tras cinco años de pausa.

En nuestro país Chile, el recital será transmitido vía satélite por el Teatro Nescafé de las Artes. La banda presentará el álbum completo, seguido de algunos de sus grandes hits, en un evento especial transmitido en alta definición por primera vez en Chile.

Esta ocasión será la primera y única vez en que la banda presentará su nueva producción de manera completa y tal como viene en el disco, canción por canción.

El precio de las entradas va de los 20 a los 25 mil pesos, y se encuentran disponibles a través del sistema Ticketmaster y de las boleterías del teatro.

ROCK & POP: Amy Winehouse, the Death of a Songbird

Singer Amy Winehouse, who mixed pieces of soul, jazz, and gospel into pop ballads, was found dead in her apartment Saturday. Police are so far listing the cause of death as "unexplained." Her career as a musician was often overshadowed by her life off-stage, Winehouse struggled with drugs and alcohol throughout her life.

Amy Winehouse - Rehab

Amy Winehouse - Back in Black



Winehouse wasn't one to apologize for her substance abuse. In fact, it's a big part of what made the singer so famous, or infamous. Winehouse released her first album, Frank, in 2003, but three years later she shot to super stardom, with her song, "Rehab."

"Rehab" hit the top 10 in the UK and the United States, her album, Back to Black, shot to No. 1 and won her five Grammys. Rolling Stone contributor Claire Hoffman says that Winehouse was unlike any other of her time.

"It was basically like this scrawny little tattooed white girl from working-class London who somehow, when she got on stage, sounded like these great soul singers of the '60s," Hoffman says.

Born on Sept. 14, 1983, to a Jewish family with a history of jazz musicians, Winehouse was critical of her pop-diva predecessors. As she told the BBC in 2003, she made music in reaction to what she saw as a packaged, cheap sound in pop.

"I think when I was growing up, the music that was in the pop charts or the music that was — that people were releasing at the time, I just thought, 'This isn't music.' This is just watered down or this is just crap — someone else has just written it for you and you have to sing it. It's very much the case in some music today," she said.

Winehouse said that she wanted to write something that she could call her own, and though it sounded different, it didn't always sound great. As YouTube rose in popularity, so did videos of train-wreck performances from a drunken and belligerent Winehouse. The singer did check into rehab in 2008, 2009 and then again in 2011. She was often on the front pages of tabloids for her behavior off stage: fighting with fans, marriage problems, substance abuse. Hoffman says that this was the essence of her celebrity.

"It seemed like it went hand-in-hand that she was both so troubled and so talented," Hoffman says.

For a time, it seemed, there was hope. Rumors of a follow up to Back to Black buzzed in the music press for much of 2011. She's also featured on a duets album with Tony Bennett, set to be released in September. But in June she cancelled a European tour after a botched performance in Belgrade, Serbia. Winehouse returned to London to recover, but was found dead Saturday. She was 27 years old.

We lost Amy Winehouse today — another talented, troubled musician who happened to die at age 27.

 

But when I saw that Winehouse was 27, chills went through my body. What is it about the age of 27? My generation lost Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Brian Jones at that exact age. Kurt Cobain died at 27, and so did Badfinger's Pete Ham, Robert Johnson and Big Star's Chris Bell.

There's a book called The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll, by Eric Segalstad, with many more names and stories. You can hear Segalstad interviewed about his book on All Things Considered.

THE FULL STORY

LONDON — Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.


Winehouse shot to fame in 2006 with the album Back to Black, whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse — with her black beehive hairdo and old-fashioned sailor tattoos — one of music’s most recognizable stars. But her personal life, with its drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and destructive relationships, soon took over her career.

Police confirmed that a 27-year-old female was pronounced dead at the home in Camden Square northern London; the cause of death was not immediately known. London Ambulance Services said Winehouse had died before the two ambulance crews it sent arrived at the scene.

Singer and actress Kelly Osbourne, who helped Winehouse check into a drug addiction treatment facility in 2008, was one of many who grieved for the singer on Twitter.

“I cant even breath right now im crying so hard i just lost 1 of my best friends. i love you forever Amy and will never forget the real you!” she tweeted.

The singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse, had arrived in New York this weekend to prepare for his U.S. performing debut Monday night at the Blue Note jazz club, but upon receiving news of his daughter’s death was heading back home to London to be with his family, his publicist Don Lucoff said.

An ambulance could be seen parked beneath the trees outside her London home, and the whole street was cordoned off by police tape. Officers kept onlookers away from the scene.

Last month, Winehouse cancelled her European comeback tour after she swayed and slurred her way through barely recognizable songs in her first show in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Booed and jeered off stage, she flew home and her management said she would take time off to recover.

Winehouse was last publicly seen on at a London concert on Wednesday when she joined her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield on stage. In that impromptu appearance, Winehouse danced with Bromfield and encouraged the audience to buy her album, before leaving the stage.

“I didn’t go out looking to be famous,” Winehouse told the Associated Press when Back to Black was released. “I’m just a musician.”

But in the end, the music was overshadowed by fame, and by Winehouse’s demons. Tabloids lapped up the erratic stage appearances, drunken fights, stints in hospital and rehab clinics. Performances became shambling, stumbling train wrecks, watched around the world on the internet.

Born in 1983 to Mitch Winehouse, taxi driver, and his pharmacist wife Janis, Winehouse grew up in the north London suburbs, and was set on a showbiz career from an early age. When she was 10, she and a friend formed a rap group, Sweet ’n’ Sour — Winehouse was Sour — that she later described as “the little white Jewish Salt ’n’ Pepa.”

She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, a factory for British music and acting moppets, later went to the Brit School, a performing arts academy in the Fame mould, and was originally signed to Pop Idol svengali Simon Fuller’s 19 Management.

But Winehouse was never a packaged teen star, and always resisted being pigeonholed.

Her jazz-influenced 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically praised and sold well in Britain. It earned Winehouse an Ivor Novello songwriting award, two Brit nominations and a spot on the shortlist for the Mercury Music Prize.

But Winehouse soon expressed dissatisfaction with the disc, saying she was “only 80 per cent behind” the album.

Frank was followed by a slump during which Winehouse broke up with her boyfriend, suffered a long period of writer’s block and, she later said, smoked a lot of marijuana.

“I had writer’s block for so long,” she said in 2007. “And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. . . . I used to think, ‘What happened to me?’

“At one point it had been two years since the last record and (the record company) actually said to me, ‘Do you even want to make another record?’ I was like, ‘I swear it’s coming.’ I said to them, ‘Once I start writing I will write and write and write. But I just have to start it.’ ”

The album she eventually produced was a sensation.

Released in Britain in the fall of 2006, Back to Black brought Winehouse global fame. Working with producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi and soul-funk group the Dap-Kings, Winehouse fused soul, jazz, doo-wop and, above all, a love of the girl-groups of the early 1960s with lyrical tales of romantic obsession and emotional excess.

Back to Black was released in the United States in March 2007 and went on to win five Grammy awards, including song and record of the year for Rehab.

Music critic John Aizlewood attributed her trans-Atlantic success to a fantastic voice and a genuinely original sound.

“A lot of British bands fail in America because they give America something Americans do better — that’s why most British hip-hop has failed,” he said. “But they won’t have come across anything quite like Amy Winehouse.”

Winehouse’s rise was helped by her distinctive look — black beehive of hair, thickly lined cat eyes, girly tattoos — and her tart tongue.

She was famously blunt in her assessment of her peers, once describing Dido’s sound as “background music — the background to death” and saying of pop princess Kylie Minogue, “she’s not an artist ... she’s a pony.”

The songs on Black to Black detailed breakups and breakdowns with a similar frankness. Lyrically, as in life, Winehouse wore her heart on her sleeve.

“I listen to a lot of ’60s music, but society is different now,” Winehouse said in 2007. “I’m a young woman and I’m going to write about what I know.”

Even then, Winehouse’s performances were sometimes shambolic, and she admitted she is “a terrible drunk.” She acknowledged struggling with eating disorders and told a newspaper that she had been diagnosed as manic depressive but refused to take medication. Soon accounts of her erratic behaviour, cancelled concerts and drink- and drug-fuelled nights began to multiply.

Photographs caught her unsteady on her feet or vacant-eyed, and she appeared unhealthily thin, with scabs on her face and marks on her arms.

There were embarrassing videos released to the world on the internet. One showed an addled Winehouse and Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty playing with newborn mice. Another, for which Winehouse apologized, showed her singing a racist ditty to the tune of a children’s song.

Winehouse’s managers went to increasingly desperate lengths to keep the wayward star on the straight and narrow. Before the June concert in Belgrade, her hotel was stripped of booze. It did no good, and the concert was painful to watch.

Though she was often reported to be working on new material, fans got tired of waiting for the much-promised followup to Back to Black.

Occasional bits of recording saw the light of day. Her rendition of The Zutons’ Valerie was a highlight of producer Mark Ronson’s 2007 album Version, and she recorded the pop classic It’s My Party for the 2010 Quincy Jones album Q: Soul Bossa Nostra.

But other recording projects with Ronson, one of the architects of the success of Back to Black, came to nothing.

She also had run-ins with the law. In April 2008, Winehouse was cautioned by police for assault after she slapped a man during a raucous night out.

The same year she was investigated by police, although not charged, after a tabloid newspaper published a video that appeared to show her smoking crack cocaine.

In 2010, Winehouse pleaded guilty to assaulting a theatre manager who asked her to leave a family Christmas show because she’d had too much to drink. She was given a fine and a warning to stay out of trouble by a judge who praised her for trying to clean up her act.

In May 2007 in Miami, she married music industry hanger-on Blake Fielder-Civil, but the honeymoon was brief. That November, Fielder-Civil was arrested for an attack on a pub manager the year before. Fielder-Civil later pleaded guilty to assaulting barman James King and then offering him 200,000 pounds ($400,000 US) to keep quiet about it.

Winehouse stood by “my Blake” throughout his trial, often blowing kisses at him from the court’s public gallery and wearing a heart-shaped pin labelled “Blake” in her hair at concerts. But British newspapers reported extramarital affairs while Fielder-Civil was behind bars.

They divorced in 2009.

Winehouse’s health often appeared fragile. In June 2008 and again in April 2010, she was taken to hospital and treated for injuries after fainting and falling at home.

Her father said she had developed the lung disease emphysema from smoking cigarettes and crack, although her spokesperson later said Winehouse only had “early signs of what could lead to emphysema.”

She left the hospital to perform at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert in Hyde Park in June 2008, and at the Glastonbury festival the next day, where she received a rousing reception but scuffled with a member of the crowd. Then it was back to a London clinic for treatment, continuing the cycle of music, excess and recuperation that marked her career.


CELEBRITY REACTION

"Truly sad news about Amy Winehouse. My heart goes out to her family. May her troubled soul find peace." — Demi Moore


"So sad about Amy Winehouse - she was so talented. Really tragic." Jessica Alba

"So many people saying that because it's not a surprise that Amy Winehouse passed, it's not sad. I hope you have more compassion for friends." — Rob Thomas

"R.I.P. Amy. Your Voice will live Forever." — Joel Madden

"This Amy Winehouse news is just so sad . To anyone struggling with addiction, please, please, please seek treatment." — Sophia Bush

"I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see." — Samantha Ronson

"My God! So sad to hear about Amy Winehouse! My deepest condolences to her friends and family and fans. You will be missed Amy xoxox" — Dave Navarro

Amy Winehouse: Muere la estrella más atormentada y talentosa de la última década

La artista fue encontrada muerta en su residencia en Londres y la policía aún no establece las causas de su deceso. Hoy se hará su autopsia.

Good for the soul (Bien para el alma). Aunque no es una canción propia, sino que de su ahijada artística, la también inglesa Dionne Bromfield, esa fue la última composición que Amy Winehouse incitó a cantar sobre un escenario, cuando la noche del pasado miércoles ambas aparecieron juntas en el festival iTunes de Londres. Casi como un simbolismo, fueron también las últimas palabras mencionadas en público por la cantante antes del más fatídico y esperado de sus desenlaces: ayer una de las figuras más mediáticas y talentosas de la última década, dueña de una impronta que hizo escuela y responsable de recuperar el soul para las nuevas generaciones, fue encontrada muerta en Camden Town, al norte de Londres, muy cerca del lugar donde hace escasos días realizó su última escala en un escenario. Tenía 27 años.

Según informó la BBC, una persona llamó a las 15.54 horas de Inglaterra (10.54 en Canada) al servicio de ambulancias para alertar sobre el hecho. La entidad envió dos vehículos y encontró a la estrella ya fallecida. Raj Kohli, portavoz de la Policía Metropolitana, confirmó el deceso y calificó como "inexplicables" las causas de su fallecimiento. Cuando se le preguntó si todo apuntaba a una posible sobredosis, sólo se limitó a decir que consideraba inapropiado caer en especulaciones. Cinco horas después, el cuerpo de la voz de Rehab fue retirado de su residencia y para hoy se espera la autopsia que arroje más luces sobre su muerte.

Medios ingleses también informaron que su familia supo casi de inmediato la noticia y que su padre, Mitch, estaba volando hacia Nueva York debido a compromisos laborales. Con la divulgación del hecho, empezó el ritual de lo habitual: un puñado de fans se acercó hasta su casa para depositar flores, peluches y carteles con mensajes. La policía debió acordonar el lugar y suspender por momentos el tránsito debido a las pericias de los forenses y al arribo de seguidores y curiosos.

A la artista le sobreviven sus dos padres, su hermano mayor, Alex, un frustrado matrimonio con el hombre de su vida, Blake Fielder-Civil, y un sorprendente historial de éxito que creció a la par con el vía crucis de excesos y temporadas en el infierno que la persiguieron durante toda su carrera (ver páginas 67 y 68).

Antes de su sorpresiva y casi inadvertida aparición en el concierto de Bromfield -dueto inmortalizado a través de videos informales en YouTube-, la inglesa ingresó en mayo a la clínica Priory, de Londres, para desintoxicarse una vez más del alcohol y las drogas. Era su último intento por zafar de sus capítulos más salvajes. Estuvo una semana y salió con un tratamiento ambulatorio que le prohibía beber y acercarse a las drogas más duras. De hecho, en octubre, la propia artista había confesado que se sentía lentamente alejada de todo tipo de adicciones y que esperaba estar limpia por, al menos, tres años.

Tras su paso por la rehabilitación, Winehouse se alistó para iniciar una gira de 12 días por Europa, pero su presente siguió remitiéndose a la crónica roja más que a la crítica musical: el 18 de junio apareció en su show de Belgrado, Serbia, completamente borracha y sin opción de domar su voz para cantar, lo que detonó el abucheo por parte de sus fans. Debió cancelar el periplo, que tenía contemplado paradas en Grecia, Turquía y España.

Durante este año sus días transcurrían entre su residencia en Londres y su descanso en Santa Lucía, una pequeña y paradisiaca isla situada en el Caribe, lejos de los traficantes y las malas juntas que merodeban su vida británica. Hasta ahí llegó por consejo de su padre, quien la quería apartar de los oportunistas y los compadrazgos de dudosa influencia. Hasta ahí además llegaron amigos más cercanos, como Cee Lo Green o Bryan Adams.

Ahí también ultimaba su esperado nuevo álbum, el que, según su sello, estaba listo y que calificó de "sensacional". Pero todo se vino al suelo ayer, en la fatídica tarde londinense donde culminó su vida y comenzó su mito.

Los fallidos intentos por llevarla a Chile a principios de año: solo fue a Brasil

Se mandaron presupuestos y se preguntó formalmente por una extensión de su visita a Brasil. Pero nada. Una productora chilena de alcance regional intentó a comienzos de este año traer a Chile a Amy Winehouse, considerando que la británica tenía confirmada una serie de conciertos en ese país, entre el 8 y el 15 de enero. Pero, de acuerdo a lo que se comentó en ese momento, fue la misma intérprete la que declinó ampliar su gira hacia Chile y Argentina.

Eso fue lo más cerca que Winehouse estuvo alguna vez de presentarse en el país, pero, a juzgar por los reportes de la prensa brasileña durante esos días, lo más probable es que el espectáculo no hubiera sido del todo satisfactorio.

Florianópolis, Recife, Río de Janeiro y Sao Paulo fueron las ciudades que la voz de Rehab visitó en el contexto de una gira con la que intentaba ponerse en forma para volver a los escenarios (no actuaba públicamente desde octubre de 2010) y donde fue acompañada por Janelle Monáe y Mayer Hawthorne, quien sí se presentó en Santiago durante ese mes.

El último show de esa gira, la de Sao Paulo, partió 25 minutos tarde y fue descrito como "vacilante" por los medios locales: la británica cantó 17 canciones durante una hora y terminó a los tropezones sobre la tarima.

En Río de Janeiro, en tanto, protagonizó un polémico episodio en el hotel donde se alojaba (Hotel Santa Teresa) cuando ingresó a la habitación de otros pasajeros para sacar las botellas del minibar. En el mismo recinto se paseó desnuda por los balcones atrayendo a los fotógrafos que no le perdieron paso.