With her trademark beehive hairstyle, distinctive heavy eye-liner and tattoos, Amy Winehouse rocketed to fame with her debut album, 'Frank', which was released in 2003. It won an Ivor Novello award, two Brit nominations and was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize.

Amy Winehouse won five Grammy awards for her critically acclaimed 'Back To Black' album in 2006, including Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year for 'Rehab', in which Amy immortalised her struggles with addiction:

Late Saturday police superintendent Raj Kohli stated outside the singer's house:

"I am aware of reports suggesting this death is the result of a suspected drugs overdose. But I would like to re-emphasise that no post-mortem examination has yet taken place and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the cause of death."

Tragic '27 Club'
Now that Amy has died at the age of 27, she joined the '27 Club', a long and tragic list of well-known musicians who died at the same age including Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix.

Meanwhile British folk singer Billy Bragg had a sober take on membership of the '27 Club':

"It's not age that Hendrix, Jones, Joplin, Morrison, Cobain and Amy have in common - it's drug abuse, sadly."