Listen to an unreleased Amy Winehouse demo, recorded before she was signed
A lost demo featuring a 17-year-old Amy Winehouse has emerged, and it's predictably excellent.
The 2001 track "My Own Way," was unearthed by composer and musician Gil Cang, then shared with Camden New Journal.
A Camden local and manager of reggae label Tuff Scout, Cang told the publisher he recorded the track with a young Winehouse in his Hornsey Road studio, before her fateful signing to Island Records and 2003 debut album Frank.
“We’d been writing quite a lot of pop tunes, doing a lot of pop promos with various artists who would come in, many of various, dubious talent," Cang told CNJ.
"It was at a particularly dire time in the pop world — lots of terrible, terrible girl bands and boy bands and we had to make something for them. Amy came in to see us, opened her mouth and just blew us all away.”
According to the publisher, Winehouse was wearing a pair of jeans emblazoned with the words "Sinatra Is God," because of course she was.
Take a listen. Remember she's 17 years old, and this is a demo. What talent.
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