By Joanne Robinson

Last updated 11:36, Thursday, 15 May 2008

I look up to Amy Winehouse because she is a really talented singer and I love her music. However I think her behaviour in her private life is disgraceful.

She is more famous for her drug and alchohol abuse than her music.

Amy is wasting her life and her talent and she should be ashamed of herself.

Let’s examine her amazing music career. She has been nominated for the Mercury Prize and this year she also won Grammy Awards in the categories of Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single Rehab as well as a Grammy in the Best New Artist category.

Her follow up album Back to Black was nominated for six Grammys.

Amy is the first British singer to win five Grammys, which is an outstanding acheivement, expecially considering she is still only 25.

One of my favourite songs is Tears Dry On Their Own.

Amy composed the melody and lyrics for this soul jazz song, which was released last year. If you like Tammi Terrell’s Ain’t No Mountain High Enough you will love this song.

There’s no doubt that Amy Winehouse is an amazing artist and I do look up to her for all her incredible talent.

Yet her self-destructive behaviour is shocking. She goes on drink binges that last for days and her drug addiction problems are never out of the national newspapers.

Amy has been arrested several times so it’s no surprise to me that she’s a tabloid favourite. It concerns me that lots of young people look up to her because of her wonderful music.

Drugs and alcohol have taken their toll on Amy’s health. She looks really ill. If she continues on her alarming decline she could be dead by the end of the year and it upsets me to think that we will have lost such a wonderful musical talent.

Please Amy, sort yourself out.

Fourteen-year-old Joanne Robinson is a student at Carlisle’s Morton School.