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Back to black AMY WINEHOUSE Her songs move like a free spirit through different eras of popular music, stretching, back to jazz and reaching into rap. Her singing is immediately recognisable, needling, cajoling, emphatic, greedy, tender, sorrowful — a voice that demands attention and lavishly rewards it. An exceptional talent whose wild and too brief career was cut short by a sudden death meet Amy Winehouse early life career awards style 27 club after death early life career awards style 27 club after death 1 2 3 4 5 6 Amy Winehouse contact the author A non-profit project dedicated to the talented singer and kind person early life Future star early years Amy Jade Winehouse was born on Sep, 14, 1983 in Gordon Hill, Enfield, to Jewish parents. Her great-great-grandfather Harris Winehouse emigrated from Minsk, Belarus, to London in 1891. Amy’s father, Mitchell "Mitch" Winehouse, was a window panel installer and taxi driver. Her mother, Janis Winehouse (nee Seaton) was a pharmacist. She had an elder brother, Alex. The family lived in London's Southgate area where she attended Osidge Primary School and then secondary at Ashmole School. Winehouse attended a Jewish Sunday school while she was a child. During an interview following her rise to fame, she expressed her dismissal towards the school by saying that she used to beg her father to permit her not to go. jewish school parents’ divorce Every week I’d say, ‘I don’t want to go, dad, please don’t make me go.’ ... I never learnt anything about being Jewish when I went anyway. Amy's parents separated when she was nine. She lived with her mother in Whetstone, London and stayed with her father and his girlfriend in Essex on weekends. Mitch Winehouse struck up a relationship with his colleague Jane shortly after his daughter was born. "The children used to call Jane 'Daddy's work wife.' I did not leave home until Amy was ten, so the situation occurred for another eight or nine years before I left home. It was difficult," Mitch told the Daily Mail in 2008. After Mitch moved in with Jane, he divorced Janis and tied the knot with his mistress, and somehow, he didn't anticipate his actions to impact his children in any way. Speaking on a BBC show (via the Daily Mail), Mitch explained: ‘I thought Amy was over it pretty quickly — in fact it felt at the time Amy felt no effect at all. Maybe she could not articulate it in words, but she certainly did it with music.’ It wasn't until he heard her song ‘What Is It About Men’ that he realised how Amy had felt. | When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don’t happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse In 1992, her grandmother Cynthia suggested that Amy attend the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School, where she went on Saturdays to further her vocal education and to learn to tap dance. She attended the school for four years...