Amy Winehouse is returning to the stage… sort of.
A hologram of the singer, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, at the age of 27, is set to go on tour next year.
According to BASE Hologram, the digital Winehouse will be projected onto a stage backed by a live band and singers. Fans will hear her original vocals.
Proceeds from the tour will go to a foundation set up in her name. No schedule has been released yet but BASE Hologram said it is due to kick off at the end of 2019.
I didn't have any particular feelings towards Amy Winehouse as an artist but this hologram tour is an absolute joke. Continuing on from many others by milking the dead. Disgraceful. Honestly disgusts me.
— Jerry Pembleton (@CerezoMask) October 12, 2018
i love any winehouse and i’m sad i’ll never see her live... but i’d never go see a hologram tour of her, i would feel so weird and uncomfortable. but of course, that’s just me idk ♀️
— roob loves kibum (@kibombs) October 12, 2018
Winehouse’s father Mitch said in a statement “it means everything that her legacy will continue.”
Winehouse released only two albums and had hit singles like “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Good.” She won six Grammys.
BASE Hologram is currently running a tour featuring a hologram of Roy Orbison, who died in 1988. It stops Nov. 4 at Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.
In 2014, a hologram of the late Michael Jackson appeared on stage at the Billboard Music Awards and, in 2012, a hologram of the late Tupac Shakur appeared on stage at Coachella.