No pop or soul singer sounded the same after Amy Winehouse. This British singer, who died far too young, knew the art of singing naturally and letting her soul speak for itself. Her flawless singing technique was just a side issue. When Winehouse died in 2011 at the age of 27, she had only two albums to her name, including her breakthrough album
Back To Black (2006). In the posthumous lifelong albums
… that followed, At The BBC is more than an outlier. On three CDs, her career is run through via television and radio recordings: from the healthy young singer enjoying her early success on, among others, Later With Jools Holland in 2003, to the lived-in artist who, four years later, at a concert in Dorchester Hall, no longer sounds entirely sober (soon after, she would cancel one concert after another). She does sing an absolutely heartbreaking version of Back To Black here. It makes At The BBC an essential extension of her small oeuvre. (MR)more
