Amy Winehouse Launches Lioness Record Label

Amy Winehouse has moved on from her crazy days of snorting suspicious substances out from under her crackhive. The singer has kicked drugs, her failed marriage, and has begun to focus on the music industry.

The former trainwreck is going to be producing music with new artists, as signed to her new record label, Lioness Records.

This isn’t being taken as a sign that she is ever going to finish her long overdue followup album to Back to Black, but at least while she is working on something that doesn’t require smoking or sniffing controlled substances.

Five time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse, the most exciting and biggest-selling female artist to emerge in the music scene in years, follows the enormous worldwide success of her 10 million selling album “Back To Black”, with the launch of her own record label, Lioness Records.

Inspired by Berry Gordy’s Motown, and The Specials’ 2Tone label, Amy wanted to create a label where she could sign and work closely with a small roster of artists she really believed in. The first release on the new imprint will be “Introducing Dionne Bromfield”, the debut album from thirteen year old Londoner Dionne Bromfield.

The name Lioness was inspired by a necklace, bearing a Lioness pendant, given to Amy by her nan, Cynthia. “My nan was like my best friend. She was the sweetest, strongest, most amazing person I’ve ever met and when I was thinking of what to call the label I picked up the necklace and knew straight away that I’d call it Lioness, in honour of Cynthia.”

Lioness symbolises strength, pride and confidence, and will be a place where the artist is given the time, space and the opportunity to develop and flourish. As a brand new label Lioness will be able to call on the creative support of her Island Records family. (via Amy’s official site)