Adele pays tribute to Amy Winehouse on late singer’s birthday

Adele took to social media to pay tribute to the late British songstress Amy Winehouse.

On Wednesday, Sept. 14, the day which should have been Winehouse’s 33rd birthday, the “Hello” songbird posted a snap of the late singer wearing a fur coat on Twitter with the caption, “Happy Birthday Amy X.”

Happy Birthday Amy X pic.twitter.com/m5yp8NY1eU

— Adele (@Adele) September 14, 2016

This is not the first time Adele divulged her adoration for the late “Back to Black” singer-songwriter. In an October 2015 interview with i-D magazine, cited by US Weekly, she said Winehouse’s soulful style influenced her and paved the way for other British artists to make it to Hollywood.

“If it wasn’t for Amy and (her 2003 debut album) Frank, 100 percent I wouldn’t have picked up a guitar,” she said. “I wouldn’t have written ‘Daydreamer’ or ‘Hometown’, and I wrote ‘Someone Like You’ on the guitar too.”

Winehouse, who died of drug overdose in July 2011, joined the group of stars who “abandoned the world” at age 27 including Janis Joplin, “Nirvana” frontman Kurt Cobain and Jimmy Hendrix. During her short-lived musical voyage, Winehouse bagged six Grammy Awards for her hits “Rehab” and “Back to Black.” She was venerated by the music industry for her two albums, “Frank” and “Back to Black”. Gianna Francesca Catolico