Amy Winehouse Exhibition Celebrating a More Intimate Side of the Singer Opens at the Jewish Museum In London

Amy Winehouse became well-known to the public for her voice, and then later for her crazy lifestyle, with a roller-coaster romantic life and drug use, but a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in London is showing a different side of Winehouse, one that her fans and the public never got to see, according to FOX News.

The exhibition aims to show the intimate side of the singer, and show that she was "simply a little Jewish kid from North London with a big talent," said Alex, her oldest brother.

The exhibit is titled "Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait," and it brings together items from Winehouse's childhood in London as well as her years on stage while at school and the period during her fast rise to fame, including items that range from her first guitar to a Grammy Award she received posthumously.

Winehouse died at 27, after a public battle with drugs and alcohol, with her actions, including her death, always headlining the news. The exhibition demonstrates that she became famous for a reason, her voice, which often seemed forgotten or pushed to the back burner in light of her later exploits. It shows her love of music, London and her family.

"It's a story that people don't know about Amy, her family story," Abigail Morris, the chief executive of the museum told FOX on Tuesday. "You can forget there's a person behind the hype."

Morris found Winehouse to be a natural fit for the Jewish Museum because she came from a close-knit Jewish family, and lived in Camden, where the museum is located, for most of her adult life.

It was in Camden that Winehouse would see gigs as well as play them, browse second-hand record stores and go for drinks in the pubs.

The exhibit was put together with help from Alex Winehouse and his wife, Riva, and it grew larger when the family offered to donate one of Amy's dresses, then expanding into a celebration of her Jewish heritage, her family and her city.

"The more we talked the more we realized the exhibition wasn't going to be about her dresses and her clothes," Elizabeth Selby, the curator, said. "It's about her roots and her family life."

The exhibit opens July 3 and runs through September 15.