Nas will be accustomed and is set to accomplish at the Amy Winehouse Inspiration Awards & Gala getting captivated on October 11th at New York City's Waldorf Astoria, it was appear today.
The New York rapper, who formed with Winehouse afore her casual endure year, will be accustomed with an Amy Winehouse Inspiration Award, accustomed to those whose plan helped "inspire abundance in others." Also getting awarded are two added Winehouse collaborators, common ambassador Salaam Remi and Tony Bennett, who sang "Body & Soul" with Winehouse on his anthology Duets II and donated a allocation of gain to the Amy Winehouse Foundation.
"Amy was an amazing aptitude and a appropriate artist," said Nas. "She was like a little sister to me. I'm blessed to be complex with a foundation that not alone keeps her anamnesis animate but helps abutment those things she cared a lot of about – kids and music."
It was in actuality Remi who alien Nas to Winehouse aback in 2004 and helped aftermath a cut they did together, "Like Smoke." Another collaboration, "Cherry Wine," appears on Nas's a lot of contempo record, Life Is Good.
"She was absolutely aggressive by him," Remi said of Winehouse's accord with Nas.
The accident is getting put on by the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which launched its U.S. annex aback in April. While the foundation has already aloft a actor pounds for children's hospices in the U.K., its ambition Stateside is to abutment music analysis and after-school programs for disadvantaged children, like those in districts in New Orleans still disturbing from the abolition acquired by Hurricane Katrina.
"We feel that if you put a agreeable apparatus in somebody's hand, they're never traveling to put a gun in their hands," said Amy's father, Mitch Winehouse, at the launch.
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