Meet Cynthia Winehouse, Alec Winehouse

With a rich singing voice that complemented the soul, jazz, and R&B music she sang, Winehouse rose to fame as an accomplished musician in the 2000s.

Beehive hair adds to Winehouse’s status as an instantly recognizable performer. Winehouse won four other Grammys that year for her Back to Black album and Rehab, the song that is regarded as being her biggest hit. In 2008, Winehouse won the “Best New Artist” award at the Grammys. Many consider her career to have peaked around the time of the plethora of important accolades.

But during the following few years, Winehouse suffered openly with drug and alcohol abuse, which led to multiple hospitalizations and arrests. Winehouse was discovered dead on July 23, 2011, in her London flat.

Winehouse had a blood alcohol content of 0.416% when she passed away, which is more than five times the legal limit to drive, according to a coroner’s report. Several investigations have come to the conclusion that she was poisoned by alcohol.

Who were Amy Winehouse’s grandparents?

Amy’s grandparents were Alec and Cynthia Winehouse, who were also her father’s parents. Cynthia, Amy’s maternal grandmother, was a singer and dated English jazz saxophonist Ronnie Scott. She and Amy’s parents had an impact on Amy’s jazz passion.

Amy was encouraged to enroll in the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School by her grandma Cynthia in 1992. She went there on Saturdays to enhance her tap dancing and singing training.

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