Wearing dark suits, black dresses and the occasional beehive hairdo, friends and family said goodbye to Amy Winehouse with prayers, tears, laughter and song at an emotional funeral ceremony.
Wearing dark suits, black dresses and the occasional beehive hairdo, friends and family said goodbye to Amy Winehouse with prayers, tears, laughter and song at an emotional funeral service.
On Saturday (July 23), Amy Winehouse, iconoclastic British singer-songwriter, was found dead in her London home.
The Jewish service was led by a rabbi and included prayers in English and Hebrew. It ended with a rendition of Carole King's So Far Away, one of Winehouse's favorite songs. The family was then due to hold two days of shiva, a Jewish traditional period of mourning.
Mitch Winehouse told mourners that his late daughter had recently found love and had beaten her drug dependency three years before her death, but he admitted she was still struggling to control her drinking after several weeks of abstinence.
"She said, 'Dad I've had enough of drinking, I can't stand the look on your and the family's faces anymore.'" Mitch Winehouse said.
Janis Winehouse, mother of the late singer told a tabloid earlier, "She seemed out of it. But her passing so suddenly still hasn't hit me."
Seen here, Reg Traviss, heartbroken boyfriend of the late singer. "We have suffered a terrible untimely loss and want peace. I can't describe what I am going through and I want to thank so much all of the people who have paid their respects and who are mourning the loss of Amy, such a beautiful, brilliant person and my dear love. I have lost my darling who I loved very much," he said earlier.
Amy Winehouse's brother, Alex, is comforted by friends and relatives at the funeral service of his sister.
Friend of the late Amy Winehouse, Kelly Osbourne grieves at the singer's cremation.
British DJ and music producer Mark Ronson arrives at the funeral service.
Two mourners comfort each other as they attend the funeral service.
Crowds gather outside the Golders Green crematorium, where the singer's grandmother was also cremated.
Media and fans gather outside the crematorium.
Fans pay their last respects to soul singer Amy Winehouse near her Camden Square home.
Fans left flowers and messages besides vodka and beer bottles as a tribute to the late British singer Amy Winehouse near her house in north London.
