The Grammy-winning jazz-pop diva turned up almost an hour late for the outdoor show. She apologized for having a sore throat, and her voice cracked during the 55-minute set.Winehouse, wearing a short dress, appeared distracted during her performance. She paused to talk to members of her band, fiddled at length with her microphone, sucked throat candy and at one point dashed offstage but quickly returned.She had cuts on her left arm, and her right hand was bandaged.Winehouse's musical career has flourished despite her erratic behavior, missed concerts and stints in drug rehab.'You Know I'm No Good'"Hey Lisbon," Winehouse told the crowd, which had booed when she failed to show up on time. "I'm sorry I'm late," she said.The sell-out crowd, gathered in a park for the Rock in Rio festival, warmed to Winehouse as the 24-year-old sang hits including her breakthrough song "Rehab," soul classics and reggae songs.The crowd wasn't thoroughly thrilled, though, and she walked off stage without playing an encore. The crowd remained subdued.Winehouse was the third act of the day on the festival's main stage, coming on before headliner Lenny Kravitz.Winehouse's management told the festival organizers she would not speak to the media.The singer is booked to play at a series of music festivals in Europe this summer. She said she is set to perform next month at a concert in London honoring Nelson Mandela.Last week she won an Ivor Novello award, a prestigious British prize, for "Love Is a Losing Game" from her "Back to Black" album. Her father received the prize after Winehouse arrived late to the ceremony.Earlier this month, the singer was arrested and questioned by police about video footage that appeared to show her inhaling fumes from a crack pipe. Authorities said the singer would not be charged.Last year she canceled a series of British concerts and postponed a tour of the U.S. and Canada after British media reported that she was in and out of rehab.This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30
Nov. 6, 2006: Cameras catch what appears to be a look of outrage on the face of Faith Hill upon learning that she's lost out on the Female Vocalist of the Year award to Carrie Underwood at the Country Music Awards. Amid a firestorm of backlash in the days that follow, Hill will insist she was kidding. (Frank Micelotta/Getty Images for CMT)
This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30Nov. 11, 1974: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is born in Los Angeles, Calif. After his big break as a homeless kid on 'Growing Pains,' he will be nominated for an Oscar for his work in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' He will become absurdly, irrevocably famouswith the release of 'Titanic' in 1997 and later becomes Martin Scorsese's favorite leading man. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30Nov. 8, 2006: While in Canada filming 'Blonde and Blonder' with co-star Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards throws two photographers' laptops off a hotel balcony, striking two elderly, wheelchair-bound women. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30Nov. 11, 1984: Diminutive TV star Gary Coleman undergoes his second kidney transplant in an effort to combat his nephritis, the disease that stunts his growth.(WireImage)
This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30Nov. 8, 1965: Viewers are introduced to the Horton family of Salem in the debut episode of 'Days of our Lives.' (NBC Photo)
This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30Nov. 10, 1975: The freighter the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald goes down in Lake Superior, taking with it all 29 crew members. Later that month Gordon Lightfoot will commemorate the tragedy in the song 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,' which will go to No. 2 on the charts the following summer. (AP Photo/Lake Superior Maritime Collection, University of Wisconsin-Superior / George Pimentel/WireImage.com)
This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30Nov. 6, 1972: Rebecca Romijn is born in Berkeley, Calif. After a successful career as a swimsuit and lingerie model, she will make the leap to acting. Along the way she will marry first John "Full House" Stamos and later Jerry "the fat kid from 'Stand ByMe'" O'Connell. (ABC/Bob D'Amico)
This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30Nov. 9, 1967: Armed with a Rolodex stolen from a San Francisco radio station and a $7,500 loan, Jann Wenner and Ralph J. Gleason publish the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Beatle John Lennon graced the cover. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30Nov. 10, 1969: The greatest kids' show of all time, 'Sesame Street,' makes its debut. It will go on to win more than 100 Emmy Awards, 11 Grammys and change children's television forever. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
This Week in Pop Culture History 9.30Nov. 5, 1930: 'All Quiet on the Western Front' wins Best Picture and earns Lewis Milestone the prize for Best Director at the fourth annual Academy Awards.
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