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๏ผฆ๏ผฒ๏ผก๏ผฎ๏ผซ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ท./ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐, ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ. ๐ต๐๐ฐ๐ฝ๐บ ๐๐ธ๐ฝ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฐ. | Straight, bi-curious | Ivor Novello, and Mercury Prize Winner. "F*ck Dido for beating me at the BRITs." | โซ Don't be too upset if they call you a skag 'cos like the news everyday you get pressed โซ
Female
20 years old
Camden Town, London,
England
United Kingdom
๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ธ๐พ๐ผ๐ฎ, a shy Jewish girl from north London. Pool master, pub dweller, chain-smoker, night owl, guitar player, jazz singer, and reefer head. Music is her best friend, she couldn't live without it. She just finished her tour of Europe and the promotion of her debut album, Frank. A girl in love with love.
I will not write with people who
โบ Have poor grammar and syntax. It distracts me.
โบ Only do smut or have a high interest in it. It's a big turn-off. Erotic elements will never be a major focus.
โบ Strictly write in overly modern settings. I labelled this account as a "2004 AU" for a reason.
โบ Lazy writing. Portraying NPCs and pulling your weight with me in the story is a strong example of effort.
โบ Cannot at least do multi-para. (2 paragraphs consisting of at least 6 sentences) I get bored fast, and my muse weakens.
โบ Are not active. But I also do not want those who moan because I haven't answered for an hour. I reply every one or two days at the least.
Try to understand that I do roleplay to have fun, but I have preferences that help make it more entertaining.
"Teo Licks"
The Amy Winehouse Band
2003 (c)Island Records
GENERAL
Hello, I'm Amy Winehouseโthat's a Jewish name.
LEGAL NAME | Amy Jade Winehouse Nicknames | Ame, Ames Stage Name | Amy Winehouse Public Nicknames | The Girl From London, Queen of Camden Age | 20-21 Birthdate | September 14th, 1983 (Virgo) SEX | Female BIRTHPLACE | Southgate, London, England CURRENT RESIDENCY | Camden Town, London, England SETTING | 2004 SPECIES | Human ETHNICITY | Jewish โก RELIGION | Agnostic NATIONALITY | British ANCESTRY | Middle Eastern, Slavic, German LANGUAGES SPOKEN | British English, French, Italian, and Hebrew OCCUPATION | Superstar jazz and soul singer SALARY | ยฃ450,000 a year
APPEARANCE
What are you filming that close? I'm ugly.
HEIGHT | 5' 3"(160cm) WEIGHT | 126 lbs. (9 stone) HAIR COLOR | Ebony, often dyed jet black EYE COLOR | Green hazel SKIN TONE | Pale olive, normally tanned TATTOOS | 4 ACCENT | London VOICE PITCH | Contralto VOCAL RANGE | C3 - Eโญ6. Likely wider. DEFINITIVE FEATURES | Inverted triangular face, big hazel eyes, dark tapered eyebrows, shallow forehead, heavy lower lips, sculpted cheekbones, angular facial profile, Levantine nose, defined jowls, sharp square jaw, diastema top central incisors
PERSONALITY
Of course I'm going to misbehave!
Traits
ยป Outspoken ยป Her unfiltered mouth has gotten Amy into all kinds of trouble in the past. In most instances, she will be brutally honest and may disregard the feelings of others. She hates to fib and those who do so. But she will not hesitate to lie about her well-being.
"T, I couldn't give a flying fuck."
ยป Charismatic ยป Sometimes, just the right words need to be said in the correct tone to persuade another or gain affinity successfully. Amy does not have trouble making friends, but frequently, her mind is in a fog from alcoholism. She can be suave to get what she wants as well. To top it off, Amy has a dark sense of humour that holds no boundaries.
ยป Self-sufficient ยป She is notorious for bottling up her emotions and troubles even to those close to her. Amy is typically not the type to confess, โI need helpโ. Throughout her life, she has fought her battles; more recent ones were by choice. This behaviour was inherited from her mother. โEverythingโs fine. Donโt worry about me.โ Is a common phrase to brush others off. If she does not have some or total control of her life, she will suffer as a result.
ยป Turbulent ยป Amy has an imperfect balance of vigour and fragility. Her self-destructive behaviour has been an ongoing issue since her early teens, involving herself in acts of self-harm, binging marijuana, and stocking bottles of booze. She will initiate a catastrophe of any objects around her and herself whenever she is gravely upset. Amy tends to lose her temper when she, or someone she cares about, is provoked. When intoxicated, she can get verbally and sometimes physically violent.
ยป Hopeless Romantic ยป Relationships, romantic or not, matter a lot to Amy. She can be quite the flirt, often pursuing her soulmate. This side of her resulted in unrealistic visions of her relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, who saw another woman when they met and dumped Amy for the same girl. But her string of bad relationships has led to her developing a fear of another heartbreak but sharpened her wisdom about such things.
ยป Sex-Positive ยป There is no other way to explain it, but this does not mean she has no sense of modesty. If she is single and horny, she will seek out a fling or a one-night stand. When engaged in a relationship, sex is often a daily ritual.
ยป Virtuoso ยป It may not be considered irrational to believe that singing and music were Amyโs natural talents. Composing songs and performing is when her confidence is at its highest. But when her insecurities become overbearing, she becomes chaotic and self-secluded.
ยป Humble ยป Money and fame do not matter that much to Amy. She has done many charitable acts with the fruits of her labour and funds her motherโs healthcare for her multiple sclerosis. She seldom thinks of what is best for her but for those she loves.
ยป Self-loathing ยป At her worst, Amyโs number one enemy is herself. Under immense pressure, she builds the urge to indulge in self-harm, whether it be cutting her forearms or partaking in a bulimic episode. She is also very self-conscious, notably in her appearance and ability.
ยป Dismissive ยป How others perceive her has little effect on Amy; however, when it comes to loved ones or her music, she will show concern about being perceived negatively. Amy never wants to be seen as a sellout, underachiever, or dull. Her live performances matter the same. Often, she undermines her talent, claiming anyone can do what she does. That is wrong.
ยป Timid ยป Because of her untreated anxiety disorder, Amy believes she cannot engage in activities such as her shows or things such as doctorโs appointments without a shot or three of booze. She is also a compulsive smoker of tobacco and cannabis to keep her mind at ease. Often, she gets shy amongst large groups of strangers. But when she is tipsy or drunk, her reclusiveness ceases. Amy only tends to drink when she needs to be her persona, "Amy Winehouse".
HABITS | Amy is a functional alcoholic with no plans of quitting. A sufferer of bulimia since her teens, she is developing anorexia. She is also a chain smoker of Marlboro Reds and cannabis. Her glowing appearance and sparkling hazel eyes make her appear healthy. She has suffered from bad facial acne for a long time, so she keeps up with regular skincare regimens. MENTAL HEALTH | Winehouse is a sufferer of untreated bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and mild Tourettes syndrome. The psychological health of stars was unfortunately taken lightly in her time. She hasn't sought treatment yet and is more focused on her career. Amy fears psychological treatment may affect her artistic ability, so only antidepressants are being taken. Having gone to rehab once already, she's still against it. Her solution is to do what makes her happy and manage her stress. PUBLIC PERSONA| Ever since she became famous, Amy, like many other celebrities, created a mask she hides behind in the public eye. She comes off as strong-willed, outspoken, extroverted (when under the influence of the drink), and is often cheery, traits her true self often lacks. However, her sense of humour and good spirit remain outside the box. There are moments when her facade disappears. Amy refers to her authentic self as "Amy Jade".
๐๐ฅ๐๐ก๐.'s Details
Status:
Swinger
Smoker:
Yes
Drinker:
Yes
Occupation:
Award-winning jazz singer
Height:
5"3'
Characters:
Amy Winehouse. 2004 AU. Pothead. Jazz singer. Pub dweller. Picking the wrong 'uns.
I was a depressed teenager with terrible acne who'd cry herself to sleep.
1983 - 1990
Entering the world kicking and screaming as if she were tone-deaf, Amy was a seven-pounder born four days late. Her brother Alex, who was three years her senior, had desired a brother. He would fight her for the limelight often. Despite the result, he still loved and protected his little sister. Her mother, Janis Winehouse, was a pharmacist, and her father, Mitch, was a cab driver. The Winehouse family has a long history of financial success past generations, so they were never short on anything. But the tension would originate elsewhere.
Since the day she learned to walk, Amy has always been getting herself into trouble; hence, she was dubbed "Hurricane Amy" for how she would bolt from room to room, unable to relax until she tired herself out. She was notorious for frequently injuring herself due to her rowdiness, running away from home, and desiring to be the centre of attention no matter her mood. Generally, she was a happy kid when she got her way. And that was often.
Amy vanishing without a trace, sustaining severe injuries (such as breaking both of her hands from falling), and showcasing an uptight attitude were the result of Mitchโs absence from his childrenโs lives. He was never there for the important things, allowing Alex and Amy to be wild to their heartโs content.
Amy's interest in music began at a very young age when she listened to jazz, blues, and rock records with her father, namely Tony Bennett, Carole King, and James Taylor. She knew then that singing was her calling and started as a toddler. Mostly self-taught, she would shake the world with her beautiful, smoky vocals. Still, to this day, her father topped the list of credited people for the growth of her talent. Amy grew more obnoxious to get in the centre of attention as her speech advanced. โShut up, Amy!โ was the most common phrase in the family.
Amy felt like the odd one out during the first few school years. She was never mean-spirited, but she bullied and judged the other kids so they would notice her. Over time, her number of friends outnumbered everyone else. Amy had been able to solve complex math equations since before she started primary school. Very intelligent, Amy was bumped up a year but quickly grew bored because it was too easy. In her mid-teens, her interest in the guitar began when, one night, she decided to sneak into her brotherโs room and play Alexโs guitar when he wasnโt home. Saving up on allowance, she bought her first acoustic.
1990 - 2001
The turbulence in The Winehouse family started relatively early when Mitch had an adulterous affair with a secretary at his job when Amy was about a year old. Her parents divorced when she was ten, delivering a heavy blow to her premature psyche. She thought of taking her own life by consuming an abundance of sleeping pills. Amy has told nobody about this except Tyler. Exploring other options to numb her pain, she started chain-smoking Marlboro Reds, drinking booze, and smoking cannabis by the age of twelve to cope. Mitch was oblivious to how much the distance he created from his kids affected them.
Suspended several times from school due to disruptive behaviour, Amy was still the famous (and unpopular) girl with a handful of friends, notably Juliette Ashby and Lauren Gilbert. Last but not least, Tyler James, whom she was acquainted with in her jazz class at age thirteen during her first year at Sylvia Young Theatre School. Tyler thought he was listening to a 40-year-old jazz singer who chain-smoked Marlboro Reds. Amy fell in love with the touch of Stevie Wonder in Tylerโs voice. He asked Amy, โWho the fuck are you? Your voice is absolutely sick.โ Her quick comeback was, โYour voice is absolutely mental.โ He would become her roommate for several years after she dropped out of school at seventeen.
Her teachers knew she was brilliant, but because of her lack of effort in academics, teacher comments were often โcould be better,โ or โwaste of potential,โ โa pity!โ, โa sharp but disruptive girl.โ Her interests were now solely poetry and music. Amy would always be singing and grabbing the concentration of others, the big elephant in the room that wouldnโt keep quiet, whether running her mouth or letting her bold pipes go. That included during her times in detention.
I was always loud because you have to scream to be heard in my family.
In her preteen years, she became interested in hip-hop groups such as Salt-N-Pepa and TLC, forming a brief band with her friend Juliette, Sweet Nโ Sour. Amy, of course, was "Sour". They had only performed one show and never recorded anything. One notable song they had penned was โBoys? Who Needs Them?โ Amy also portrayed Rizzo from her favourite musical film "Grease" at a school play. Her amazing performance turned heads.
Silently, she began to suffer from bulimia in her early pubescent years, and anorexia would follow her into adulthood. This shocked her parents, who knew how much Amy loved to eat. Her parents did not think much of it; her mother thought it would pass, so no action was taken. Like many young women, Amy had a troubled body image.
In desperate need of an escape from her woes, watching her brother play his electric guitar inspired her greatly. Amy would snatch his Stratocaster and practice on it for hours when he wasn't home. The accelerated learner she was, Amy picked up on it in a few months, studying jazz guitar tabs and sheet music. It was then she discovered another means of self-therapy. Play the guitar for an hour and feel ten times better. In time, she saved enough money and bought herself an acoustic.
The only person she felt she could be herself around was her paternal grandmother, Cynthia. Amy needed someone to tell her โnoโ and tell her things as they were. Unfortunately, Janis did not fit that role appropriately in her daughterโs life. Amyโs unruly behaviour sometimes became too much for her mother to bear, so she tolerated it. However, Cynthiaโs totalitarian way of authority instilled some discipline in Amy. But they didnโt live under the same roof.
Sadly, Mitchellโs absence led to the dawn of Amyโs promiscuous lifestyle at the age of fourteen. The ability to contain her urges since hitting puberty at the age of ten failed her. Due to her fatherโs infidelity, Amyโs view of men became very warped. By the time she was sixteen, she had many sexual encounters but no serious relationship up until she met a black boy named Crispin Waller, a fellow classmate in her later years of secondary school. He was the first she fell in love with and would be far from the last.
Another factor in the early dawn of Amyโs sex life was a dark secret she kept to herself; at the age of sixteen, she was brutally raped by a date while under the heavy influence of alcohol. She may not remember well because she was very intoxicated, but the mental toll it took on her left a deep scar. That feeling of powerlessness and the humiliation of being violated were nearly impossible to forget. Her increasing body count was from a hope that she would forget the trauma. But she would learn that it wasn't the proper solution.
Spending a year as the head singer of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, they could be considered her first band. Amy departed once she was through school and sought other opportunities to make a living with her natural talent.
2001 - 2007
After playing guitar and singing in a few jazz and R&B bands in her mid-teens, Amy gained a temporary job as a journalist for the World Entertainment News Network through her best friend's father, Juliette Ashby. Figuring school was the least of her concerns; it was at this point she took an early leave from Sylvia Youngโs and sought job opportunities to begin her adult life. Bored with the traditional authority of her stepfather Tony and seeing less of her brother who left for university, Amy spent more and more of her spare time writing music and spending time with Tyler.
Winehouse had no ambition to take her musical talent and do something with it. Unsatisfied with her lack of chemistry with local music groups, she took her leave into her stepfatherโs basement, smoking weed, singing, and playing guitar all day. Tyler, looking to make a music career after leaving university, urged Amy to send a demo tape. It wasnโt until after six months of demands that she gave in and recorded. From the moment talent scout Nick Shymansky heard her voice, he knew she was destined for greatness.
Following a critically acclaimed audition at Brilliant 19 Promotions, a handful of record companies wanted to sign her. Amy was offered a ยฃ250k contract under Island Records, which she accepted but would not get until she was of age. But she couldnโt do this alone. So she called up old friends and held auditions to form โThe Amy Winehouse Band,โ a seven-piece group. Troy Miller, a friend from a previous band Amy played for, volunteered to fill the role of percussion. Following a year of small shows around London, Amy was promoted by Simon Fuller through Tyler and signed a record deal the following year when she reached eighteen. Together with manager Nick Shymansky, the search began for a record producer. Amy settled on hip-hop producer Salaam Remi, an admirer of his work, who instantly agreed to work with her upon hearing her demo tape. They became fast friends through their time in the studio.
No music was churned within a year, Amy spent her quarter of a million pounds (UK currency) on new clothes, and her first property in Camden was in the apartment complex known as Jeffreyโs Place. The geek she was, thousands were spent on WWF and comic book memorabilia and her hobby of collecting posters of pinup girls that decorated the walls of her flat, a fascination she picked up from Cynthia. Winehouse had no material to release, and Island Records threatened to drop her, so Amy had to devise a record quickly. For years, she strongly disliked contemporary pop; she could relate to none of it, which motivated her to write her music in the first place.
Since the age of seventeen, Amy has been dating a man for seven years, her senior, Chris Taylor. It was unlike what she had with Crispin, falling heels over in love with him. But that passion faded when she realized it wasnโt meant to be. Chris lacked the masculine qualities that attracted Amy. He was sensitive and didnโt like taking the reins, giving Amy too much control, which bored her. Her relationship with him inspired songs such as โStronger Than Meโ, โTake The Boxโ, and โIn My Bedโ. For years, she would not have another serious relationship. Amy was attracted to the handsome manager at her job as a cashier at a coffee shop at the age of sixteen. But the thirty-year-old did not feel comfortable with a girl of barely legal age ogling him. He rejected her, and this led to the lyrical compositions of โAmy Amy Amyโ and โYou Sent Me Flyingโ.
FRANK, the title is a reference to me being โfrankโ, and of course, Frank Sinatra.
Progress began on her debut album, Frank, named after her biggest music hero, Frank Sinatra. Recorded in New York City and Miami with Salaam, the record made itself. In a matter of a few weeks, the album finished. Frank was released to the UK in a mere few months in 2003, raising Amy to widespread fame in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. She raked in BRITs, Ivor Novello, and Mercury Awards for her first body of work. Overwhelmed by her success, Amy believed she didnโt do much to deserve them, so she gave them to her mother. How could she have been ready for stardom at the barely ripe age of twenty? She dreamed of fame as a child but thought it was a pipe dream. Was this what she wanted? Her world was changing fast, and it was the dawn of her young adulthood. At first, she made friends with the paparazzi who lingered outside her home. Over time, she grew frightened and aggravated by them, dubbing them "vultures".
Superstardom is something a person like Amy should never experience.
PERSONAL LIFE
They talk about everything I doโฆ wonder what they would say if I jammed a pencil in my eye right now...
RELATIONSHIP STATUS | Single. Swinger. This does not mean she won't be willing to be in another committed relationship. ORIENTATION | Bi-curious Heterosexual KIDS None. Amy yearns for children, but her life is too young and restless to settle down. RELATIONSHIP ROLE | When Amy falls in love, she falls hard. When she adores someone, she tends to be quite affectionate and clingy. She desires to have a partner who can also be her conscience. She is by no means a feminist and is more than okay with being ruled over by a man and taking the role of a nuclear family housewife. But that doesnโt stop her from thinking for herself. If Amy doesn't have a bit of control of her life, she will be unhappy. She loves children, so mothering several of her own is something she badly wants in the near future. N$FW | Amy can be a free-spirited woman who will try to sleep with any man she wants when not engaged in a serious relationship. Since her last, she hasn't settled down. Traditional masculinity is a trait that attracts her the most. She enjoys both submission and dominance equally and has never been one for non-vanilla sex. Her libido is strongest under the influence of alcohol. Pressure and stress can fuel it as well. She has an abundance of skills and endurance in the bedroom. But if unsatisfied with a partner, she will dump or cheat on them. Or worse, screw a friend of his. Over half of Amy's body count was nothing serious.
While her dating history only involved men, and her bi-curiousness has not wavered since she kissed her first girl. Unbeknownst to her, it is a phase that will pass, overpowered by her strong attraction to the opposite sex and high preference for heterosexual relationships and the fruit they bear.
He told his friends I was horrible in bed. They disagreed.
