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  • Kelly Osbourne and MarkRonson were among the 150 guests who attended Amy Winehouse's funeral Tuesdayat Edgwarebury Cemeteryin north London. Another man was also mourning: singer and moviemakerReg Traviss, who had been dating the British soul singer up until her untimelydeath at age 27 on July 23 (a cause of death has yet to be determined).

    The day before, a grim-facedTraviss was photographed alongside Amy's father, Mitch Winehouse, looking at floraltributes left outside the singer's Camden Square home where her body was discovered.

    Traviss"helped her with her problems," Amy's father told People magazine."Amy was looking forward to their future together."

    So, who was he? There's not a lot of information out there about Traviss, but here's what we know.

    Winehouse and Traviss wentpublic with their relationship last June. They were photographed holding handsand seen kissing in London's Mayfairdistrict.

    Traviss is a respected filmdirector on the rise, with three British works to his

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  • Amy Winehouse wholly embraced her love for the '60s, and itwasn't apparent just in her music, which channeled the throwback sound of girlgroups like the Ronettes. The "Rehab" singer, who was found dead in her Londonhome Saturday and was buried Tuesday, also adopted a signature hairstyle madepopular during that era--the beehive.

    When Winehouse was introduced to U.S. audiences in 2006 whenpromoting her sophomore album "Back To Black," her hairdo was a distinctivepart of her image.

    Winehouse's poufy mane which stood no less than 5 inches tall,so closely resembled that of lead Ronette singer Ronnie Spector that theveteran performer thought she was looking at a photo of her younger self whenshe saw a picture of Winehouse in the New York Post.

    "I don't know her, I never met her, and when I saw that pic,I thought, 'That's me!' But then I found out, no, it's Amy. I didn't have on myglasses," Spector told the Village Voice.

    The hairstyle made its debut in 1960, and was conceived byMargaret

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  • Who, if anyone, could have saved Amy Winehouse?

     

    The question always arises after any drug-related celebrity death about whether the star was surrounded by sycophants and enablers who ignored health risks to keep their meal ticket in motion. But we may never have seen a celebrity case as extreme as Winehouse's: The last four to five years of her life represented as extended and public a trainwreck as pop culture has ever witnessed. This was not a Heath Ledger, whose problems were kept largely under wraps, tipped only by suspiciously heavy-lidded interviews, but a superstar who seemed to openly court disaster for a shambolic half-decade, regardless of whether she was being enabled or shamed.

    Looking back at relatives' statements over the years, you don't see much denial going on.

    "I realize my daughter could be dead within the year," said her mother, Janis. "We're watching her kill herself, slowly. I've already come to terms with her dead. I've steeled myself to ask her what ground she

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  • To Amy Winehouse's family, the singer/songwriter's death was not unexpected. It was "only a matter of time," her mother, Janis Winehouse, was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. She'd visited her daughter the day before she died, and said, "She seemed out of it. But her passing still hasn't hit me."

    She said their final encounter had ended with the weakened Amy saying "I love you, mum." "Those are the words I will always treasure," Janis said. "I'm glad I saw her when I did."

    Father Mitch Winehouse had been in New York preparing to do a series of showcases for his new jazz album. He canceled the shows and was seen at JFK a few hours after the news hit. "I'm completely devastated," he was reported as saying. "I'm coming home. I have to be with Amy. I can't crack up, for her sake. My family needs me."  

    Mitch Winehouse had been vocal in the past—too vocal, for Amy's tastes—about his daughter's substance abuse. As far back as three years ago, he was raising the specter of her possible

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  • LONDON (AP) - Amy Winehouse's mother said the singer was not well when they met a day before she died, a British newspaper reported Sunday, while her family mourned the loss of "a wonderful daughter, sister, niece."

    The Sunday Mirror quoted Janis Winehouse as saying she believed it was "only a matter of time" before her daughter died. The 27-year-old singer was found dead at her London home on Saturday.

    "She seemed out of it. But her passing so suddenly still hasn't hit me," Janis told the tabloid.

    Ambulance crews called to her home in north London's Camden area Saturday afternoon found the singer dead before they arrived. Police said the cause of her death is being treated as "unexplained," rejecting speculation that she died from a drug overdose as "inappropriate." A post-mortem is expected Monday or Tuesday.

    The Winehouse family said in a statement it was remembering her, and request for privacy.

    "Our family has been left bereft by the loss of Amy, a wonderful daughter, sister,

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  • Back in March 2007, Yahoo! Music went to South By Southwest, the annual Austin music festival where so many up-and-coming artists flock to kickstart their careers in America, and booked a studio where SXSW 2007's buzziest buzz acts came through to perform for the Y! cameras. All sorts of impressive musicians stopped by--Mika, Peter Bjorn & John, Albert Hammond Jr. of the Strokes, Brandi Carlile. But the moment I remember most from that whirlwind weekend is, unsurprisingly, when the infamously rehab-resistant, beehived British bad-girl, Amy Winehouse, sauntered through the door.

    Part of what made Amy's appearance at Yahoo!'s SXSW headquarters that hot Austin day so memorable was the fact that she showed up at all. While Amy wasn't quite a superstar yet, she'd already established a reputation for being troubled, flaky, and living up to her apparently autobiographical hit, "Rehab." That year at SXSW she was probably the most hyped act of the entire festival, and she was scheduled to

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  • LONDON (AP) - Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.

    Winehouse shot to fame in 2006 with the album "Back to Black," whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse - with her black beehive hairdoand old-fashioned sailor tattoos - one of music's most recognizable stars. But her personal life, with its drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and destructive relationships, soon took over her career.

    Police confirmed that a 27-year-old female was pronounced dead at the home in Camden Square northern London; the cause of death was not immediately known. London Ambulance Services said Winehouse had died before the two ambulance crews it sent arrived at the scene.

    Singer and actress Kelly Osbourne, who helped Winehouse check into a drug addiction treatment facility in 2008, was one of many

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