CASTRIES, St Lucia – St Lucia’s top tourism official was disappointed British singer Amy Winehouse cut short her performance at the St Lucia Jazz Festival last week because of heavy rain, but he praised the troubled retro-soul star for bringing buzz to the event.
‘This has never received the kind of pre-attention that it achieved this year and all of it is attributable to Amy,’ Tourism Minister Allen Chastanet said on Monday. He said he was ‘a little disappointed’ that the 25-year-old singer known for battles with addiction and frequent run-ins with the law abandoned her Friday performance.
‘I would I have liked to see her belt out some more songs, yes, but she is an artist and she will perform and do what she wants to do. I’d like to think that she could have done better and I only hope that she gets to that level in her life when she can,’ Chastanet said.
Winehouse’s spokesman, Chris Goodman, said rain dousing the stage caused a lighting rig to fail, disrupting sound equipment. She wanted to keep singing and was disappointed she had to stop. – Nampa-AP
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