Adele pays tribute to Amy Winehouse on late singer’s birthday

Adele took to social media to pay tribute to the late British songstress Amy Winehouse.

On Wednesday, Sept. 14, the day which should have been Winehouse’s 33rd birthday, the “Hello” songbird posted a snap of the late singer wearing a fur coat on Twitter with the caption, “Happy Birthday Amy X.”

Happy Birthday Amy X pic.twitter.com/m5yp8NY1eU

— Adele (@Adele) September 14, 2016

This is not the first time Adele divulged her adoration for the late “Back to Black” singer-songwriter. In an October 2015 interview with i-D magazine, cited by US Weekly, she said Winehouse’s soulful style influenced her and paved the way for other British artists to make it to Hollywood.

“If it wasn’t for Amy and (her 2003 debut album) Frank, 100 percent I wouldn’t have picked up a guitar,” she said. “I wouldn’t have written ‘Daydreamer’ or ‘Hometown’, and I wrote ‘Someone Like You’ on the guitar too.”

Winehouse, who died of drug overdose in July 2011, joined the group of stars who “abandoned the world” at age 27 including Janis Joplin, “Nirvana” frontman Kurt Cobain and Jimmy Hendrix. During her short-lived musical voyage, Winehouse bagged six Grammy Awards for her hits “Rehab” and “Back to Black.” She was venerated by the music industry for her two albums, “Frank” and “Back to Black”. Gianna Francesca Catolico

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Adele Doesn’t Believe in Personal Branding, Thanks

At just 27 years old, Adele has skyrocketed in the music industry, already breaking records—almost all of them, actually!

Though today, she has something against the word “branding” and fame that she really doesn’t agree with. As she fronts TIME Magazine’s cover she fully reveals just why.

“It makes me sound like a fabric softener, or a packet of crisps. I’m not that. But there’s personality in an artist, and if you’re expecting people to let you in and give themselves to you, you have to be a whole package,” the “Hello” singer said.

The British songstress, who is also known for her honest approach to interviews, did not waste any time dishing her candid opinions.

While branding makes an artist and/or actor’s reputation—like how Miley Cyrus, per se, has her current free spirited reputation and is constantly going out topless, Adele refused to be defined with that sort of measure.

“I feel like some artists—and this isn’t shading any artist, just me trying to come up with my own explanation—the bigger they get the more horrible they get, and the more unlikable. And I don’t care if you make an amazing album—if I don’t like you, I ain’t getting your record. I don’t like you being played in my house if I think you’re a bastard,” Adele said in her interview.

Those are some harsh words but it’s real talk from Adele and we need it. But as her fiancé once told her about her being brutally honest in songs and interviews, “Do your thing, own it, do what you want.”

Now that’s one guy we hope she won’t have to ever write a heartbreak song for.


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Photo courtesy of TIME

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