'Her spirit comes and sits on my bed': Amy Winehouse's father Mitch claims late singer's GHOST visits him at his Kent home
Her death at the tender age of just 27 shocked the music world, millions of fans and devastated her beloved family.
And more than six years on from the tragic death of Amy Winehouse, her father Mitch has claimed that his musical icon daughter is still very much a presence in his everyday life, with her ghost regularly visiting him in his Kent home.
Mitch told The Sun that Amy's spirit comes and sits on the end of his bed and that he finds comfort in knowing his daughter is still with him.
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Forever loved: More than six years on from the tragic death of Amy Winehouse, her father Mitch has claimed that his musical icon daughter is still very much a presence in his everyday life, with her ghost regularly visiting him in his Kent home (pictured in October 2010)
Icon: Amy died from alcohol poisoning at the tender age of just 27 on July 23 2011
Revealing that the sightings intensify around the Back To Black hitmaker's birthday on September 14, he said:
'After three years I was thinking maybe that one day she will come back in some shape or form, and she does come back — not physically, but spiritually — all the time.
'Her spirit comes and sits on the end of my bed. She just sits there and it looks just like her with her beautiful face and she looks at me. I say to her, ‘Are you all right?’ because I get nervous with her being there.
'But it is comforting in a way to know she is here and around me.'
Unbreakable bond: Mitch told The Sun that Amy's spirit comes and sits on the end of his bed and that he finds comfort in knowing his daughter is still with him (pictured in February 2008)
Comfort: He said: 'Her spirit comes and sits on the end of my bed. She just sits there and it looks just like her with her beautiful face and she looks at me. I say to her, ‘Are you all right?’ because I get nervous with her being there' (pictured in August 2008)
Mitch also said he believes the Grammy Award winner visits him and wife Jane, taking the form of a blackbird identical to the one Amy had tattooed on her arm.
He said the week after Amy died a blackbird flew into the glass at his sister's house, at nighttime when birds are nesting.
He then said the bird came back and sat on his foot, with the bird later singing to him and that he now sees blackbirds everywhere, which he 'cannot explain.'
In the wake of his daughter's death Mitch founded the Amy Winehouse Foundation to support young people struggling with drug and alcohol misuse.
Amy rose to fame with her first album, Frank, in 2003, but it was the arrival of her second album, Back to Black, in 2006, which catapulted the shy singer into her status as an international phenomenon.
Love: Mitch also said he believes the Grammy Award winner visits him and wife Jane, taking the form of a blackbird identical to the one Amy had tattooed on her arm
Legendary: Amy rose to fame with her first album, Frank, in 2003 (pictured in January 2004)
Phenomenon: But it was the arrival of her second album, Back to Black, in 2006, which catapulted the shy singer into her status as an international phenomenon
She won a then-record five Grammy's at the 2007 annual awards ceremony including Best Pop Vocal Album for Back to Black and Song of the Year for Rehab.
But her struggles with alcohol and drug addiction were to blight her career and she died on July 23 2011, Camden, from alcohol poisoning after weeks of sobriety and then falling off the wagon.
Pathology tests showed she had 416mg of alcohol per decilitre in her blood – 350mg is considered enough to be fatal.
Her life, her rare singing talent, her struggle with alcohol and drug dependency, and her untimely death are set to be documented in a new West End musical.
In October it was revealed that her family are in talks to create a musical documenting the tragic singer's life.
Tragedy: But her struggles with alcohol and drug addiction were to blight her career and she died on July 23 2011, Camden, from alcohol poisoning after weeks of sobriety and then falling off the wagon (pictured in February 2008)
Tribute: In October it was revealed that her family are in talks to create a musical documenting the tragic singer's life which will no doubt include my's messy two-year marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil, which was fraught with substance abuse and violent rows (pictured in December 2007)
Speaking at the Amy Winehouse Foundation Gala in London, Mitch told the Sun: 'A musical celebrating her life and music is being talked about for the near future. It is something I'd really like to happen and I've said I'm happy for it to go ahead.
'It would be for the West End. We want to do something that remembers Amy for what she was, there's so much more to her than just the drugs and the alcohol.'
He said the aim of the show would be to demonstrate how Amy created her music, focusing on her talent rather than on her struggle with drugs - which, he added, she had been clean from for three years before she died.
Other aspects the tour is likely to cover include Amy's messy two-year marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil, which was fraught with substance abuse and violent rows.
The couple married in Florida in 2007 but they were divorced in September 2009.
History maker: Amy won a then-record five Grammy's at the 2007 annual awards ceremony including Best Pop Vocal Album for Back to Black and Song of the Year for Rehab
Honouring her memory: Amy's proud parents Mitch and Janis were the singer's biggest fans
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