Fans have lit candles and left tributes outside her north London home to mark the first anniversary of the death of singer Amy Winehouse.
The talented soul singer with the beehive hairdo died from alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011, at the age of 27.
Her family Monday released a statement honouring ''a daughter and sister that meant the world'' to them.
Relatives said they were still struggling to come to terms with her loss.
Winehouse family members also thanked fans for their continued support.
They have started a charity to help others fight drug and alcohol abuse.
The catalogue of music left by the singer has seen a sales surge in the year following her untimely demise, notching high positions in the US Billboard music charts.
Winehouse sold 1.15 million digital song downloads and 855,000 albums in the 12 months following her sudden death, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures reported by music publication Billboard.
In comparison, the singer's albums had sold 58,000 copies in 2010, and 44,000 copies in the months of 2011 before her death.
Winehouse, a British jazz and soul singer, died aged 27 at her London home following a long battle with drug and alcohol addiction.
She had more than five times the legal driving limit of alcohol in her blood at the time of her death.
She only recorded two albums during her career, 2003's debut hit Frank, and 2006's Back To Black, which shot the singer to international fame with singles including Rehab and You Know I'm No Good.
Back To Black peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 2008, and Rehab, a catchy candid jazz number of the singer's struggles with going to rehab, proved to be Winehouse's biggest hit in the United States, selling 1.72 million downloads before her death and 275,000 downloads after.
Winehouse's posthumous album, Lioness: Hidden Treasures, pulled together by producers from the singer's recording sessions for her previous two albums, peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard album chart in December 2011, selling 423,000 to date in North America.
-AP, Reuters
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