She and Amy's parents influenced Amy's interest in jazz. Amy's paternal grandmother, Cynthia, was a singer and dated the English jazz saxophonist Ronnie Scott.
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Many of Winehouse's maternal uncles were professional jazz musicians. In the same interview, Winehouse said she only went to a synagogue once a year on Yom Kippur "out of respect". During an interview following her rise to fame, she expressed her dismissal towards the school by saying that she used to beg her father to permit her not to go and that she learned nothing about being Jewish by going anyway. Winehouse attended a Jewish Sunday school while she was a child. She had an older brother, Alex (born 1979), and the family lived in London's Southgate area, where she attended Osidge Primary School.
The great-great-grandfather of Amy Harris Winehouse emigrated from Minsk, Belarus to London in 1891.
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Her father, Mitchell "Mitch" Winehouse, was a window panel installer and taxi driver her mother, Janis Winehouse (née Seaton), was a pharmacist, who suffers from multiple sclerosis.