Amy Winehouse to help Caribbean musicians

Amy Winehouse is planning to help budding young musicians in Saint Lucia, the Caribbean island she has made her second home.

The troubled singer, 25, plans to involve herself in a number of community projects on the island focusing on music.

Her spokesman said: "There are community works planned in Saint Lucia that Amy will be involved in, but they will be music-based projects for the island's youth."

Last month, Winehouse cancelled what was to be her British comeback gig, following reports of ill health.

A statement from her management said it "regretfully" announced that Winehouse and her band would no longer be performing at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire.

The announcement followed reports that the star was taken to hospital in Saint Lucia, complaining of chest pains.

The Grammy winner - who has been staying on the Caribbean island while working on her third album - was said to have been admitted to a ward after fainting, and later released.

The Rehab singer has attracted an enormous amount of media attention with her battle against drug addiction and relationship with husband Blake Fielder-Civil. She split from her husband in November last year.

She also successfully obtained an injunction stopping members of the paparazzi taking photographs outside her north London home.

Photographers are barred from following or approaching her within 100 metres of the house.

Source:www.telegraph.co.uk