On what would have been Amy Winehouse's 40th birthday, Chantelle Dusette reflects on her friendship with the late singer. Read more on Grazia.
Ahead of what would have been Amy Winehouse’s 40th birthday, her close friend Chantelle Dusette is thinking about how the singer might have spent her special day.
Chantelle, 43, featured in the 2021 documentary Reclaiming Amy, which aired on the BBC, alongside another of Amy’s close friends, Catriona Gourlay, Naomi Parry and Michael Collins**,** her mum Janis and her dad Mitch. In a resurfaced interview shown in the documentary, Amy speaks about her plans for potential motherhood. ‘In 10 years time I'd like to have a couple of kids. Like two or three. I'd like to be there,’ she says. Amy had also shared this ambition with Chantelle.
It's well known that Amy was a talented singer from a young age. She was just 15 when she started writing her own songs, and when she was 17, she became the featured vocalist for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in the UK. She was once quoted saying that she began her career ‘singing for old people in the back room of a pub in Rayners Lane’, before she later secured a record deal with Island/Universal. Her first album, Frank, released in 2003, was the start of Amy’s success.
Chantelle reflects on meeting Amy with some friends on a trip to Paris during the promotion of Back to Black. ‘It was then that I understood how odd Amy felt being famous, because of the way people treated her, the relentless fawning. She was very real, so all of that jarred her and I think she found it unsettling,’ she says. Sadly, public struggles with drugs and alcohol followed the release of the album.
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