Amy Winehouse's Dad Releases Album

Mitch leaves the cab for the stage...

The father of Amy Winehouse has just launched a new jazz album entitled A Rush Of Love To The Heart.

Mitch Winehouse, 60, who is a London cab driver, presented the jazz LP at Pizza On The Park in London yesterday, as Metro Newspaper reports.

Mitch said: "Of course, I wouldn't be in this position without Amy, but now the opportunity is there, why not take it? My father owned a barber shop in Commercial Street and my mother had a hairdressers at the back of it. We lived above this place with aunties, uncles, grandparents, great grandparents.

"Every floor had different music. We were singing all the time. Amy had a very similar upbringing - always aunties, uncles, grandparents and friends around, and always music."
 

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