KIFO CHA MWANAMUZIKI AMY WINEHOUSE NA FUNDISHO KWETU BONGO

Moja ya nyumba zilizoporwa wakati wa ghasia mjini London majuma mawili yaliyopita ni ya  mwanamuziki maarufu wa Kiingereza , Amy Winehouse aliyefariki mwezi Julai.

Ingawa uchunguzi wa nini hasa kilichomuua ungali ukiendelea hadi Oktoba, Amy Winehouse alifahamika kuwa mchapa pombe kali na dawa za kulevya wakati wa maisha yake mafupi ya miaka 27.

Mwanamuziki huyu Myahudi alikuja juu 2003 kutokana na kipaji chake cha sauti nzito ya kupendeza juu ya utenzi wa maneno  aliyoyaandika kwa ustadi sana.

Akiwa shuleni alifukuzwa sababu ya tabia ya bashasha, kutosikiliza aliloambiwa, kutoboa pua. Aliimba kila mara darasani akawakera waalimu. Ingawa hakuwa bado mlevi ufundi  wake wa muziki (alipiga pia gitaa) ulimpatia nafasi ndani ya vyuo mbalimbali vya sanaa ikiwepo Sylvia Young Theatre School.

Amy akiwa na babake Mitch Winehouse. Picha  Shaun Curry wa Getty Images.
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A TRIANGLE OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS SPELLING BURNING ISSUES OF OUR TIMES

Recent days have been clouded with intense news of death, destruction and sadness. It is even strengthening the resolve of some of those who always moan that they hate watching news; that news is always bleak, dark and horrible. Truth is news is human reality...

  This week a triangle of three major catastrophes form an axis between East Africa, Norway and London. The Norway corner is the most upsetting and surprising as it came out of the blue on Friday 22^nd through the madness and determination of a white guy with very extreme views as those espoused by Al Queda and the like but from a different perspective.  Day after was death of the talented London musician Amy Winehouse while East Africa continue to loom in a famine that rekindle memories of the 1984 Ethiopian starvation. Are these awful events new? Hardly.

Amy Winehouse in action in 2007 (pic from Wikipedia)

A few months ago Japan experienced a terrible earthquake while freedom demonstrations erupted in the Middle East. Endless episodes; as continuous as our rotating earth. Nonstop.

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