It was Amy Winehouse's night: The British pop singer pulled off a near-clean sweep at the 50th annual Grammy Awards Sunday night, scoring five trophies including record of the year, song of the year and best new artist, while putting on a passionate performance via satellite from London. Winehouse won all the night's top awards.
For Winehouse, the 24-year-old had recently seen her music success overshadowed by a public battle with substance abuse, and last week, she fought to get a U.S. visa to attend the ceremony at the Staples Center. But Sunday night brought the focus back onto her breakthrough album Back to Black and her single "Rehab."
In an emotional acceptance speech via satellite from London after a performance of "You Know That I'm No Good" and "Rehab," Winehouse, thanked her producer Mark Ronson (who won producer of the year), her mother and father, and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil. "To my Blake, my Blake incarcerated," she said. Fielder-Civil is currently awaiting trial in a London jail.
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