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The father-in-law of the British singer Amy Winehouse urged her fans yesterday to boycott her music and said she should be ineligible for awards until she seeks treatment for drug addiction, the BBC reported. In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, Giles Fielder-Civil said that Ms. Winehouse and her husband, Blake, Mr. Fielder-Civil’s son, would die without medical help. “Perhaps it is time to stop buying records,” he said. “It’s a possibility, to send that message.”

But Ms. Winehouse’s father, Mitch, said, “It won’t send any message to Amy at all, unfortunately,” adding, “If I thought it would, it would be a great idea.” Mr. Fielder-Civil said he believed that Ms. Winehouse, a nominee for a Mercury Music Prize, an MTV Video Music Award and four Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards for her 2006 album “Back to Black,” had been using cocaine, crack cocaine and possibly heroin. His wife, Georgette, said she feared that her son and Ms. Winehouse would eventually die unless they received medical help. In a statement, officials of Island Records, Ms. Winehouse’s label, said, “We have been doing everything we can to help with Amy’s personal problems over the past few weeks.” Ms. Winehouse, who is to turn 24 on Sept. 14, was hospitalized this month for “severe exhaustion” and withdrew from concerts in the United States and Canada “to address her health.”

by Brendan Lemon | 8/29/07 | Leave a comment |