Amy Winehouse Black". Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning on 23 July 2011, at the age of 27. Her album "Back to Black" posthumously became, for a time, the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century. Amy Winehouse was born in Chase Farm Hospital, in north London, to Jewish parents. Her father, Mitchell "Mitch" Winehouse, was a window panel installer and then a taxi driver; and her mother, Janis Winehouse (née Seaton), was a pharmacist. Winehouse's ancestors were Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish immigrants to London. Amy had an older brother, Alex (born 1979), and the family lived in London's Southgate area, where
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