Amy Winehouse’s longtime pal has disclosed Wednesday his emotional closing conversation with the legendary singer in advance of the 13th anniversary of her tragic demise.
The “Back to Black” hitmaker died of alcoholic beverages poisoning at her London townhouse in July 2011. She was 27.
Now musician Dale Davis, 57, is opening up about meeting the late musician in 2003 when she was just 19 when he joined her live band.
The bass player, who later on became the musical director of The Amy Winehouse Band, explained the pair chatted about the six-time Grammy winner’s singing.
“I talked to her at 11.30 p.m., a few several hours right before she went to bed for the final time, and she was on fantastic kind,” he advised The Sun. “Amy stated, ‘Dale, I have just been observing myself on YouTube and I can sing, can’t I?’ I replied, ‘Of course you can sing! You are the best . . . you know.’”
“I’m happy she went to mattress with that imagined. She needed to appreciate she could sing because she was very humble. Even at her stage, a man or woman can hardly ever see it in on their own. They in all probability consider, ‘Is the adulation actual or not?’ But to me, Amy is the initially star of the millennium,” he added.
Davis claimed he experienced been the late singer’s “favorite individual,” as he was there for her when she was propelled to stardom.
“When we to start with fulfilled, she did not say considerably since she was quite an uncomfortable character,” Dale recalled.
“But when I started out doing work with her, you could see the like in her. If she favored you, she definitely favored you. If she liked you, she liked you tricky. She was a heat, gorgeous, generous human being who designed me really feel particular correct from the off.”
Recalling the instant he heard of Winehouse’s dying, Davis claimed that she didn’t think she would reach her following birthday.
“I was out with her two evenings beforehand,” he shared. “And she applied to ring my household consistently all over that time to speak to my spouse (now ex-spouse) and son. Nonetheless, she did tell my ex that she didn’t believe she’d see 28.”
“There’s an aspect of Kurt Cobain in her. They both had very short careers but were being massively impactful,” he claimed of the late Nirvana frontman, who also died at age 27.
“There’s a certain thriller when they don’t get a prospect to improve outdated. When they are youthful, they chuck this significant spirit in the air and you really do not see flaws so a lot.”
Davis runs The Amy Winehouse Band in the late singer’s honor and tours about the globe to make sure that her “important legacy” lives on.
