Winehouse became a member of the 27 Club, not just because she died at the age of 27 on July 23, 2011, but also because she was the Jimi Hendrix of the jazz and soul of our generation.

Back to Black won the Best Pop Vocal Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, but we all know this part of the story. The truth is, not many people know about her album Frank or anything about her earlier life.

This is where director Asif Kapadia’s story begins. He wanted to meet the real Winehouse, even after she died, to get to know the real her and to make the 88th Academy Awards’ Best Documentary Feature of the year. Regarding why the documentary, released last year, is titled just Amy and not her family name or her full name, he said it was because it tells the intimate story of the real Amy Winehouse, not the star tabloid.

(Read also: Tragic tale of singer Amy Winehouse wins documentary Oscar)

“I wanted people to discover the real Amy, with the good and bad performances,” said Kapadia in an interview for French magazine Premiere.

We can see in the documentary a person who actually writes her own songs, not because she wanted to be famous, but because she needed it just as she needed to be loved. The revelation of Amy is all the unpublished images showing that before everything went bad, Winehouse was happy, funny and full of life.

“Jazz could have saved her life. Singing what she wanted to sing, that’s what this film is about,” said Kapadia. (tif/kes)

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