Amy Winehouse’s dad Mitch Winehouse: Her new album was hard to hear

Amy Winehouse‘s dad has listened to his tragic daughter’s new album, and admits it was “difficult” to hear her sing Mitch Winehouse and the family wanted to be in agreement that the posthumous collection was better than the soul star’s previous studio albums before they gave the green light for its release, he explained.

“The estate, which I’m a part of — my ex-wife and I — we could decide to put it out or not put it out, and when we went to listen to the album it was a very difficult time for us,” he said.

“It was very emotional. But we had to sit through it and after the first couple of songs we sort of calmed down a little bit.

“Our son was there as well and we all had to be in agreement that the album was of the same quality or better, in fact, than Frank and Back To Black, and we were more than pleasantly surprised.

“Listening to her sing — we had to with the album, we had to make sure it was OK, we had to do that but, you know, that’s difficult too.”