UMe To Reissue First Two Amy Winehouse Albums, ‘Back To Black’ And ‘Frank’ Following Amy Winehouse Documentary

Universal Music released Amy Winehouse's first two albums, "Frank" and her Grammy-winning final album "Back To Black."  Frank and Back To Black have been re-released in digital form to online retail partners June 30 on the heels of the critically acclaimed documentary Amy.

The album will feature rare remixes of "Back To Black," "Rehab," "You Know I'm No Good" and "Tears Dry On Their Own.

The new Amy Winehouse only whetted the appetite for new music from the late British Diva

Amy Winehouse's career was cut short by tragedy. Winehouse was born in North London. She began writing after picking up a guitar at 14. 

After writing for the World Entertainment News Network as a music journalist and singing for a local group, Amy was the featured vocalist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra when she was 16 in 2000. 

Winehouse signed to Simon Fuller's 19 Management in 2009. The company helped developed her while she sang jazz standards at clubs in and around London.

Frank: Winehouse's sultry jazz-and-soul-tinged 2003 debut Frank, was a testament to her love of singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Nina Simone.

Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, Frank featured songs co-written by Amy as well as three covers, one of them a "hidden" track, "Mr. Magic (Through The Smoke)," a masterful reinterpretation of the Grover Washington Jr. hit "Mister Magic."

The album led to her commercial breakthrough, Back To Black, issued in 2006, which earned her a Best new Artist award at the Grammys the following years, as well as Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and the ultimate prizes, Record and Song of the Year for "Rehab."released October 20, 2003, 

Winehouse was the first British female performer ever to win five Grammy Awards..Amy's composition "Stronger Than Me" received the U.K.'s prestigious Ivor Novello Prize for Best Contemporary Song, The album went on to sell over one million copies in the U.K.

Back To Black was released October 27, 2006. The album reflected Amy's interest in the girl groups sound of the '50s and '60s. A "21st century soul classic" (The Guardian), 

Co-produced by Remi and Mark Ronson, the album was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize while Amy picked up a Brit Award for Best British Female Artist and Ronson won a GRAMMY for Producer of the Year. Of its five singles, "Rehab" and "Love Is A Losing Game" earned Amy her second and third Ivor Novello Awards.

Back to Black topped the U.K. charts. Is the second best-selling album since 2000 after Adele's 21.peaked at No. 2 on both the Billboard 200 and Top Alternative Albums chart, and sold three million copies in the U.S.

The U.S. will see a digital release of the U.K. version of the album for the first time, which adds the track "Addicted," which had been previously unavailable in the States. 

The original U.S. bonus tracks, "You Know I'm No Good" featuring Ghostface Killer and "Rehab (Hot Chip Remix)" will be available in the newly compiled digital e-singles.

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