Amy Winehouse's Marley music

18-01-2008 15:00

Amy Winehouse is heading to Jamaica to channel the "spirit of Bob Marley" into her music.The 24-year-old singer is a huge fan of the late reggae legend - who died in 1981 aged just 36 - and is travelling to his home country to work with his Grammy-winning son Damian Marley on the follow-up to her critically acclaimed 'Back to Black' LP.She was overheard telling her friends in her favourite north London pub, The Hawley Arms: "I love Jamaica and I want to feel Bob Marley's spirit in my music. "I want to stay where he lived and hook up with Damian because he's a genius. I'm desperate to get over there."Amy - whose husband Blake Fielder-Civil who is currently awaiting trial in London's Pentonville Prison on charges of perverting the course of justice and grievous bodily harm (GBH) - is looking forward to the music-making holiday on the sun-drenched Caribbean island.A source said: "She wants to escape all her troubles back home for a bit and just throw herself into her music. She's always loved the Marleys and she wants her next album to have a reggae feel about it."Amy has already dabbled in the laid-back Rastafarian sound.