Adele, Raye, Sienna Spiro... 15 years waiting for Amy Winehouse's heir

British music lost one of the most unique voices in its history 15 years ago. Since the death of Amy Winehouse, British music has been relentlessly searching for its successor to take overfrom the iconic singer who broke the rules and gave way to a new generation.

The label of "new Amy" has been a heavy burden on a number of later British singers, such as Adele, Raye or, more recently, Sienna Spiro, with a promising future.

Amy Jade Winehouse (1983-2011) was born in Enfield, north London, within a Jewish family linked to jazz, particularly her father Mitch and grandmother Cynthia, who dated saxophonist Ronnie Scott.

Artists like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett or The Ronettes put the soundtrack on young Amy's childhood, and they were their main references when she started in music. Sylvia Young trained at the theatre school, and then at BRIT School, the great voice quarry in London, where years later Raye, Lola Young or Jessie J.

His career began in 2003, after signing his first record contract with his debut album 'Frank' (in honor of Sinatra) (2003), and he would also have two other albums, 'Back to Black' (2006) and 'Lioness: hidden treasures' (2011), released months after his death.

Amy's interpretive ability, coupled with her distinctive beehive hair and very marked eye stroke and her transgressive lyrics, made her a global success.

As on stage, Amy's life took place in the pubs of Camden, where she went to sing or serve pints behind the bar, and where she also knew the great love of her life, Blake Fielder-Civil, with whom she married in 2007 and divorced two years later.

The stormy relationship, full of infidelities, alcohol and drugs, would inspire the London singer in some of her most successful songs, but it would also lead Amy to the bottomand force her to have eating disorders, addictions and depression at the same time as her popularity was rising.

Amy Winehouse's voice went out forever on July 23, 2011, when she was only 27 when she was found dead in her flat in the Camden neighborhood of London, leaving behind a fleeting but grateful career that included almost thirty, six Grammys or a BRIT prize.

After her death, the music industry quickly filled the gap for 'The Lion of Camden' and found the perfect replacement in a great Adele. At one of her concerts in Boston, USA in 2016, the singer of 'Rolling In The Deep' said, 'I owe Amy 90% of my career. I took a guitar for her and wrote my songs for her.'

Raye, for her part, clung to the (bitter) weight of stigma in her song "I Will Overcome": "Funny, some people say I look like Amy. There are people who spit through her keyboards."

In statements to the NME, the artist denounced media pressure: "The hardest part is when people are so ugly and so bad with their comments: 'you'll never be the same'. It's amazing how they talk to me: it's the same evil that Amy suffered."

Now they're looking at young 20-year-old British singer Sienna Spiro , who just released her debut album 'Visitor' this July. Her similarities with Winehouse are inevitable: in addition to her physical resemblance, she belongs to the Jewish family, retro style, and has worn Amy printed on a dress during her homage tour.

15 years have shown that while the industry remains obsessed with the pursuit of offspring, Amy's music did not need replicas, but simply time to become an immortal heritage.