Tony Bennett recently compared Amy Winehouse to Dinah Washington. About as high as high priase can get. I'll get back to that in a second, but for now the quote that is getting the attention his his claim Amy knew she was going to die: "“She was in trouble at that time (recording the duet) … What people didn’t realize at that time, she really knew, and in fact I didn’t really know it when we were making the record … She knew she was in a lot of trouble, that she wasn’t gonna’ live. And it wasn’t drugs. It was alcohol,”
It appears to have a mix and match of prescription drugs and not a detox seizure that got her in the end.
But back to Dinah Washington. I aggree but not just Dinah, it is Dinah plus the pain of Billie Holiday and impishness no, she didn't sound similar, I didn't say) of Ella Fitzgerald.