Amy Winehouse (active 2002-2011)
London-born singer Amy Winehouse’s second album, 2006's Back to Black, which mixed R&B, jazz, soul and pop, has sold over 20 million copies, and helped her win a Brit Award and five Grammys. Her sultry vocals, personal lyrics and distinctive beehive hairdo made the 27-year-old former theatre school student one of the world’s most popular, and recognisable, singer-songwriters before her death from alcohol poisoning last year.