• Film/TV - Music

    Amy Winehouse’s Cry
    From the Depths of Creation

    At one point in the current documentary (Amy) of the gifted and tortured singer Amy Winehouse, she was so deeply submerged in her partly guttural/feral, partly ravishing/seductive treatment of a song, digging into it with such resonant and startling ferocity, that I esilently xclaimed to myself there in the dark of the theater, “My God, that voice is from the depths of creation!” True enough, but the surpassingly sad part of that voice is all the pain and self-torture that it was built upon, quite aside from the God-given gifts of raw vocal power it had been bequeathed. For truly,…