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Billboard.com confirmed that "Amy Winehouse will perform during Sunday's Grammy Awards via satellite from a London studio, organizers announced today (Feb. 8)."

"I'm raring to go and really excited to be performing at my first Grammy Awards," Winehouse said in a statement. "I'd like to thank everyone for their support over the last couple of weeks. I'm really sorry I can't be there but I appreciate that I'm being given a second chance via satellite. "The artist, who recently spent time in rehab due to drug abuse, was denied a visa to travel to the Los Angeles ceremony by the American Embassy in London.

What a double-standard we have in our society where average working joe's who abuse drugs are fired and removed forcibly from their employment but a musician known to be addicted to illegal drugs is given the opportunity to peform at the Grammys. Its sad because it shows that we value the dollar above all else, even human life. After the example that Amy has set over the past year, is this an artist we want in the spotlight?