But 10 years after the British singer’s death at 27, her family and friends say it is time to stop defining her by her well-documented struggles with addiction and destructive relationships.

Winehouse’s parents have cooperated with a BBC documentary to air on the anniversary of her death today, which her father Mitchell says gives a “more rounded image of Amy”.

The singer put her own experiences into original songs such as “Back to Black” and “Rehab”, infused with jazz and soul influences, and developed a distinctive personal style with a towering beehive hairdo and tattoos.

But her performances grew more erratic due to drug and alcohol use, while tabloids published stories calling her “Amy Decline-house” or “wino”.

She died from alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011.

Narrated by her mother Janis Winehouse-Collins and titled “Reclaiming Amy”, the documentary features interviews with long-standing friends, including one Catriona Gourley, who reveals she had a romantic relationship with Winehouse.

“You think you know my daughter – the drugs, the addiction, the destructive relationships – but there was so much more,” her mother says in the voiceover.

The documentary also seeks to counter accusations that her family relished her success and did not do enough to help her overcome addiction.

“Janis and Mitch were there, all the time,” Gourley told the BBC, listing “the countless times Amy was taken to rehab facilities or there was an intervention”.

Gourley also suggested that, with today’s greater awareness of mental health issues and addiction, Winehouse would not have faced such mockery in tabloids and gossip magazines.

NME music magazine called the documentary “touching if defensive”, saying it was a “sweet tribute to a daughter, friend and mercurial talent”.

But the Financial Times was more sceptical, writing that Winehouse’s parents and especially “limelight-loving father Mitch were front and centre in her career”.