For a North London girl, she's always seemed more at home in sunnier climes - but Amy Winehouse couldn't quite let her hair down as she relaxed in Brazil this week.
The grinning 27-year-old singer was lazing round the pool at her hotel for the afternoon with one of the musicians from her band - but resisted the temptation to have a dip in case it got her hair wet.
Instead, she laughed and joked with him as she recharged her batteries on a sunlounger while he cooled off in the hotel pool.
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Healthy and happy: Amy Winehouse smiles for the cameras as she relaxes by the pool in Brazil - but without getting her famous beehive wet
Just friends: The singer was relaxing with one of the musicians from her band as she took time out from her comeback dates in Brazil
The star is staying at the Santa Teresa hotel in Rio de Janeiro as she undertakes a mini tour of the South American country and looks in better health than she has done in years.
She jetted out to the tropics after seeing in the New Year in London, and checked into the £700-per-night hotel in the hills overlooking Rio's Guanabara Bay as her base while she plays five nights in the country.
Beehive and ballet pumps: The star's poolside outfit wasn't much different from her Camden summer attire
Beehive yourself: The singer was make-up free but adorned with her usual assortments of tattoos
Making a point: Fans are hoping the rejuvenated singer will finish her new album soon after topping up her tan
Wearing a khaki bandeau bikini top and her ubiquitous cut-off denim shorts, the singer was a world away from the emaciated, grey-skinned girl that stalked the streets of Camden more than a year ago.
It's rumoured that as well as being happy that she's finally back playing live - and apparently pocketing a £5million cheque for just five shows - the star is looking happy because she has a new man.
While some papers are reporting that the Back To Black soulstress is back with ex Reg Traviss, The Sun reported yesterday that an expat barman in Brazil has caught her eye.
Feeling good: Amy Winehouse grabs her surgically-enhanced breasts as she chatted to friends round the pool at her hotel in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
The paper said that the man, known only as Paul, hails from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, and is currently working at the bar of her Rio hotel.
The singer has previously told friends she was looking for a new boyfriend and would be happier to meet someone 'normal'.
A friend said: 'She never thought that she'd be single at 27, and now she just really wants to find a normal guy to settle down with and have a baby.'
Her fans however will be hoping she gives birth to a new album first now that she's finally kicked drugs.
Amy is insisting that she has been clean and drug free for a year, after seeing a photo of herself last January looking wild and messed up.
Glowing: Amy's skin looked clean and radiant as she walked in the Rio sun
She previously said of the picture, which showed her pale, gaunt and covered in cuts: 'I thought: "Girl, you've got sort yourself out or you'll be dead soon".'
However, being clean hasn't yet resulted in the hoped-for burst of creativity, with the only new material announced so far a song which will feature on Quincy Jones's new tribute album Q: Soul Bossa Nostra.
A follow-up to her smash-hit 2006 second album Back To Black has been in the pipeline for the past four years, but the singer's personal battles have hitherto got in the way of her progressing with her recording career.
However, now that she seems physically back to her best and having turned in some good comeback performances so far in Brazil, there are high hopes that her new album will see the light of day as planned in 2011 - giving Amy even more to grin about.
Horrified: This picture of Amy after a night out in Camden last January prompted her to give up drugs once and for all
The star received some rave reviews for her Summer Soul Festival appearance in Florianópolis on Saturday night.
She belted out a number of tunes from her back catalogue as well as a number of covers dressed in in a pink and white gingham dress which boosted her surgery-enhanced assets.
Comeback: Amy received a rousing reception as she performed in Florianopolis on Saturday night