Songs That Shaped Amy Winehouse/ Various - Songs That Shaped Amy Winehouse / Various

Jasmine's ongoing and very popular 'Songs That Shaped...' series has thus far restricted it's activities to big names of 20th century popular music - but this month we move up a century to feature one of the most iconic artists of the 2000s thus far. The late Amy Winehouse never shied away from acknowledging artists, records and styles of music that forged her own fabulous style. By her own admission she was a sponge, soaking up everything from classic 40s and 50s vocalists to jazz to girl groups to soul and so much more besides. This compilation features both tracks that she herself cited as influential and others by artists from genres that she embraced wholeheartedly from an early age. It tracks her path through the early years of her discovery that there was more to music than what she heard on the radio, and tells her tale through a first class, well-chosen and truly diverse selection of tracks. Unbelievably, Amy has been gone for almost 15 years at the time of writing - but the peerless audio legacy she left behind to influence future stars is rooted in the music you will hear here.