Amy Jazzes Up Her Past ; (. . . And Forgets to Mention Her Private School, Loving Parents and Pounds 400,000 Home

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She has been hailed as the year's most exciting jazz sensation, bigger even than Jamie Cullum.

But while Cullum is a famously polite middleclass boy from the West Country, Amy Winehouse already has a reputation as a rebellious street kid who, in the best traditions of jazz, has come from the wrong side of the tracks.

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Amy Jazzes Up Her Past ; (. . . And Forgets to Mention Her Private School, Loving Parents and Pounds 400,000 Home

She has a cockney accent, tattoos, body piercings and a penchant for Jack Daniel's, cigarettes and cannabis. Her music adds to her street cred, with expletives pouring scorn on previous lovers, tongue lashings of fellow musicians and identification with heavily blinged hip-hop artists.

Since her debut album, F...

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