Marisa Abela sips a coffee and settles into the back bar area of the Dublin Castle—a legendary music venue in Camden, north London. She’s sitting no more than 50 feet from where Amy Winehouse performed dozens of times over her short career. The 80-year-old proprietor of the establishment, Peggy Conlon, keeps chatting us up, but she never does mention Winehouse. Abela, soft-spoken and poised in an oversized black leather coat, takes it in stride.
“Amy is one of the most iconic singers of her time,” says Abela, “so the singing was a non-negotiable for me.” To credibly become Winehouse, she’d at least have to look the way Winehouse did when she sang, even if that meant simply learning physical traits like “what you can see in my throat, my jaw. But I was gonna work as hard as I possibly could to get to that place where I am singing as Amy. Not like Amy.
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