THEY say that the brightest flames burn the shortest - and so it was with Amy Winehouse who died in 2011, aged just 27.

Next Saturday, The Amy Winehouse Experience heads to King George’s Hall, Blackburn, to celebrate the music of the singer whose career was so tragically cut short.

Emma Wright, backed by a seven-piece live band, will perform all the hits from Rehab to Back to Black.

Emma, who was a finalist on the TV show Stars in Their Eyes when she did a tribute to Lady GaGa, turns in an uncanny performance capturing the spirit of Amy.

“I’ve listened to the albums for years,” she said, “so it’s just been a matter of tuning the voice to sound as much like her as possible. But I’ve always been quite good at impersonating people so that’s come quite naturally to me.

“It also takes a lot of studying and watching countless videos to see how she moved to get the performance just right.

“This is a full show and we’ve got some amazingly talented musicians and backing singers who add to the whole atmosphere. It is a great show.

“To get to that level takes a lot of band rehearsals, they are the things that nobody ever sees. But we are a very hard working band and all the musicians have been in bands before. It’s been exciting for them to develop a new sound.”

From the tattoos, Fifties-inspired fashion and stacked beehive, Emma looks like Amy Winehouse. And when she’s on-stage talking to the crowd between songs, she sounds just like her, even though she’s a Northern girl from Blackpool.

“When I speak I like to master her accent as well. Then I become a Cockney. for the night,” she laughed.

Emma has grown up performing.

“I’ve been singing all my life,” she said. “I went to theatre school and was a member of a dance troupe. I also did X Factor and obviously Stars in Their Eyes. I think singing’s in my blood really.”

The show has been playing to packed houses and bigger and bigger venues around the country and Emma hopes that it will help change people’s perceptions of a tribute show.

“I think it can be quite difficult to get through to my generation to come and watch a tribute act,” she said

“I think some of them have the wrong idea and think it’s some kind of cheap act.

“But once they come to our show they realise that what we are doing takes a lot of work and we are keeping the memory of Amy alive.

“For me, it’s so great that we are making sure that people don’t forget about her. She wrote some amazing songs.

“I would love to do what I call her ‘secret songs’, the ones which people don’t know but really we have to please the crowd with the huge hits and it’s a fabulous feeling to have everyone in front of me singing along.

“In the show we will do some covers which she did which you might not have heard before.”

Amy Winehouse Experience, King George’s Hall, Blackburn, Saturday, April 22. Details from 0844 847 1664 or www.kinggeorgeshall.com