The British pop singer pulled off a near sweep at the 50th annual Grammy Awards Sunday, scoring five trophies including record of the year, song of the year and best new artist, while performing via satellite.
Amy Winehouse won all the night’s top awards, except for album of the year, which went to Herbie Han for River: The Joni Letters.
The 24-year-old recently saw her music success overshadowed by a long, hard battle with substance abuse, and last week, she fought to get a U.S. visa to attend the ceremony. She received it but too late for her to attend.
Sunday night, however, finally brought the focus back onto the R&B / soul singer’s breakthrough album, Back to Black, and her single “Rehab.”
In an emotional acceptance speech via satellite in London after she sang “You Know That I’m No Good” and “Rehab,” Amy Winehouse thanked her producer, Mark Ronson, her mother and father, and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
“To my Blake, my Blake incarcerated,” Winehouse said.
Blake Fielder-Civil, 25, is currently awaiting trial in a London jail on charges of assault and witness tampering.
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