The poignant list bears ambitions likes “collaborate with Missy Elliott + Timbaland”, “buy a house in South Beach” and “have people look up to me”.
It also includes Winehouse’s desire to be a film actress and to not have surgery.
The director of curatorial affairs for the Grammy Museum, Nicholas Vega, told SABC News: “They really speak to her intensity to be so focused at an early age and, even when you look at some of her journal entires that we have, her daily journal entires that we have facsimiles of that are on display here, you can see that it was practice guitar — it was written for ‘X’ amount of times — it was meet with management… so she was very dedicated to her craft.”
The exhibition also includes notes and sketches about the Back to Black hitmaker’s ambitions if she wasn’t going to make it as a singer.