Amy Winehouse had written all the songs for a third album before she died from accidental alcohol poisoning at age 27. She even picked out song titles.
Music producer Salaam Remi said the soul singer was not rushing to release that new material, instead planning to drop a jazz album first.
Only two of the tracks Winehouse wrote were recorded and appear on her compilation album, Lioness: Hidden Treasures, due for release on Dec. 5 in the UK, and a day later in America.
Remi held a press listening for Lioness on Tuesday. The 12-track set features covers and stripped-sounding versions of released Winehouse songs, with some completed in one take.
The album also has a song by an 18-year-old Winehouse, another about her ex-husband’s infidelity and Best Friend, which opens with the line: “I can’t wait to get away from you.”
Remi, who worked on the singer’s two albums, Frank and Back to Black, produced most of the upcoming CD, saying Winehouse was a perfectionist when it came to composing music.
Remi said he wanted to release new material from the late singer before others did so.
“Before somebody comes up with some weird song ... this is what it really is,” he said. “This is the quality.”
British soul diva Adele hopes to add to her growing collection of prizes at the American Music Awards this weekend, even if she has had to be bow out because of throat problems. Adele, announced at the end of October that she has been forced to cancel her live dates for the rest of the year to undergo surgery on her throat.
The 23-year-old has four nominations, followed closely by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry among others with three nods for the annual star-studded awards, which took place at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre Sunday evening, Pacific Standard Time.
Canadian teen sensation Justin Bieber — last year’s big winner as artist of the year — will have to pin his prize hopes on his single nomination for best male rock or pop artist.
A woman who claimed that Bieber was the father of her infant son has dropped a paternity suit against the pop star, US media said Wednesday, amid reports that he was preparing to file a counter suit.
Celebrity gossip site TMZ.com reported that plaintiff Mariah Yeater, 20, who last week quietly revoked her suit against the singer, also had been abandoned by her legal team.
Bieber earlier this month said he would take a DNA test to prove that he did not father Yeater’s son, and then would countersue once the results come back, according to reports.
Sources said Bieber, 17, and his legal team planned to make an example of Yeater as a deterrent to others who might be tempted to make similar claims in the future.
Yeater, who gave birth to a baby boy in July, had claimed that she and Bieber met backstage at a concert in October last year in Los Angeles, where they had sexual relations that left her pregnant.
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