Bornin Southgate, north London in 1983
Aged10 she forms a rap group with her school friends and enrols in the famous Sylvia Young Theatre School
Beginswriting songs aged 14 and at 19 signs a contract with the Universal record label.
Her debut album Frankis released in 2002 and is nominated for that year's Mercury Music Prize. The song Stronger Than Mewins an Ivor Novello writing award.
While touringin the US in 2004, she finds herself walking down a street in New York one day with her record producer. She is explaining to him about the pressure she was under from family, friends and management to book herself into rehab. She says to the producer: "I told them all: No, no, no". That same evening she writes the song Rehab.
Goes to rehabwith her then husband Blake Fielder-Civil in 2007. The pair last five days and almost immediately afterwards she is arrested in Norway for possession of drugs. All her public engagements were cancelled following her arrest.
In October 2007she tells a tabloid newspaper that she collapsed following a cocktail of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and whiskey. She says: "I scared myself this time. I was all over the place. I know things have to change. I'll sort myself out, I promise." But just four days later, as she told it herself, her husband found her in a hotel room with a call-girl and a bag of drugs. There is an "altercation" and she is later photographed the same day walking along the street in bloodstained clothes looking badly scratched and bruised.
Following the publicationof the photograph her father-in-law rings a radio talk show to say how worried he is that Amy and his son will die if they don't get immediate treatment. Amy's father, Mitchell (pic), also rings the same radio station to say how his daughter is "out of control" and her record company had been reduced to tears in their efforts to provide her with professional help.
Towards the endof 2007, her long-time manager Thom Stone resigns. It was reported that he left his job after a routine medical check-up showed he had traces of heroin in his system, allegedly through passive heroin smoke on Amy's tour bus.
In 2008 shesings live at that year's US Grammy Awards but has to film her segment from a studio in London as she is unable to secure a visa to travel to the US due to her drug prosecutions.
In June ofthis year she begins a 12 date European tour with a show in Belgrade. Video footage of the gig shows her being booed by the audience as she forgets lyrics, falls over and appears to be too drunk to perform. The rest of the tour is cancelled.
Last Wednesdaynight she makes her last public appearance at London's Roundhouse venue, appearing on stage to support her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield. She is offered the microphone but doesn't sing.
Saturday, July 23rd:Shortly before 4pm two ambulances are called to her home in Camden, (pic). Police confirm her death later that evening.