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"Portishead musician Geoff Barrow has criticised the talent of female singers. The producer claimed that many female stars&amp;#039; voices are &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot;, and named Amy Winehouse in particular as an overrated talent.  Barrow described the late singer as &amp;quot;Whiney S**tehouse&amp;quot;, and that her addiction issues meant that people couldn&amp;#039;t criticise her. &amp;quot;I think Whiney S**tehouse - Amy Winehouse, by the end of it, had just become a comic character of herself and how she sang,&amp;quot; he told Electronic Beats. &amp;quot;I saw her with an electric guitar in a little pub in Bristol and people were going &amp;#039;that&amp;#039;s amazing&amp;#039;, but it wasn&amp;#039;t at all. &amp;quot;Then she had the big drug problem and all the tabloids got involved and she would start being Minnie Riperton or whatever it was.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;It seemed fake, but because there was a massive drug problem you couldn&amp;#039;t say it was fake, but her actual voice was fake. She had a real life with a fake voice.&amp;quot;  Talking about his band, he said: &amp;quot;When Portishead started, Beth (Gibbons) was very influenced by Janis Joplin. She sang in her voice but it was based on singers that she liked.&amp;quot; Geoff Barrow later apologised for his comments, after he received a backlash from Winehouse fans online. He tweeted: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sure she was a lovely caring talented person - I didn&amp;#039;t know her. Very sad that she passed away - but I never dug her vibe.&amp;quot; Amy Winehouse will reportedly be featured on a new compilation titled Amy Winehouse at the BBC, to be released in November. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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