Love, Amy (UA) | The musical world of Amy Winehouse | Eine musikalische Show von Thilo Wolf und Kevin Schroeder

Her distinctive hairstyle, beehive, dramatic eyeliner and unique voice made her unmistakable: Amy Winehouse was an icon and one of the greatest musical talents of the early 21st century. She brought back the pop-soul of the 1960s. Just two studio albums were enough to make her immortal despite her early death: her debut album "Frank" was released in 2003 and her second album "Back to Black" in 2006, which is considered a milestone in pop history.

But success is only one side of the coin. She felt anxiety when performing in front of large audiences. More and more often, she drowned the pressure of success in alcohol. Crashes, drug excesses and stays in rehab clinics accompanied her career. In 2005, she met Blake Fielder-Civil and fell in love with him. He is said to have been the one who introduced her to hard drugs and who hurt her deeply when he left her for his ex-girlfriend. But it was from one of her most painful moments that her greatest musical success emerged: many songs from "Back to Black" were born out of heartbreak. "I'm a young woman, and I write about things I know," she commented on her song lyrics, which came from deep inside her and were never aimed at chart success.

"Love, Amy" by Thilo Wolf and Kevin Schroeder will be a tribute to this contradictory woman and fantastic musician. The concert show immerses the audience in the story of Amy Winehouse. The focus is on her great love of music, which began with listening to jazz and soul records from her father's cupboard. The "music" appears here as a person who falls in love with the talented young singer. But Amy's struggle with temptation and the dark side of her life is also addressed: "Black" appears, the shadow, the crazy devil who has been breathing down Amy's neck from an early age. However, the soundtrack does not consist solely of Amy Winehouse's songs. The evening also pays tribute to artists who influenced her, such as Ella Fitzgerald, the Shirelles and the Rolling Stones. And it celebrates other members of the legendary and tragic Club 27, such as Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix, who, like Amy, died at the age of 27 because they consumed themselves too quickly in their intense lives. The Amy Winehouse party on the big stage begins with the memory of that moment in 2008 when the singer won the Grammy for "Rehab" ...

Thilo Wolf, who last appeared in Heilbronn with his outstanding musical "The Famous Door on Swing Street", has long been fascinated by Amy Winehouse's music. In 2017, he came across her father Mitch's book "Amy, My Daughter" and was moved to read her story from his perspective. Thilo Wolf got in touch with him, especially as Mitch himself is a great big band singer. The result was a musical friendship and the idea for "Love, Amy".