Amy Winehouse's Parents Accept Grammy For Singer's Duets With Tony Bennett

LOS ANGELES -- One of the Grammy show's most poignant moments was one that TV viewers didn't see.

When Tony Bennett received the Grammy Sunday for best pop performance by a duo or group for his duet with Amy Winehouse, he invited the late singer's parents to join him on stage during the awards ceremony's pre-show segment.

"We shouldn't be here. Our darling daughter should be here," Winehouse's father, Mitch, said after he and the singer's mother, Janis, had embraced Bennett.

His daughter was thrilled, Winehouse said, to have recorded the Grammy-winning song "Body and Soul" with Bennett.

Mitch Winehouse also noted Whitney Houston's death Saturday and the recent passing of Etta James.

"What can I say? There's a beautiful girl band up in heaven," he said.

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[Hampton Roads]

09:30 AM on 02/14/2012

How fitting that the presenter was Tony Benefit who launched into an incoherent rant about how drugs should be legalized just hours after Houston was found in her bathtub.

[Gemini49]

10:41 AM on 02/14/2012

It sounds like the drugs Ms. Houston was taking were legal .... prescription and booz ...

[ontariogirl]

05:57 PM on 02/13/2012

I loved her sound and style. There should have been a better tribute to her. IMO.
Peace be with you.

[Cam Chatka]

03:06 PM on 02/13/2012

I will always love you, Amy.

[Holypat777]

03:50 PM on 02/13/2012

Moron!

[frant52]

10:29 AM on 02/13/2012

Tony Bennett is a class act, and he knows talent. This whole album was fabulous, and the Amy Winehouse duet was exceptional! I would have liked to see her remembered on the actual awards show.

[Payd Troll]

08:21 AM on 02/13/2012

rest in peace amy. your pain is gone now.

[AuntLoonie]

06:28 AM on 02/13/2012

Where was Amy's tribute? In a quick slideshow. Shameful.

[spikedance]

06:22 AM on 02/13/2012

It was so well deserved. Wish Amy was here to receive it herself. :0((

[RareBlackBird]

05:26 AM on 02/13/2012

Miss you Amy... your music lives on.

[crabbyguy75]

03:08 AM on 02/13/2012

I miss the music of AMY AMY AMY.

[ocheeky1]

02:48 AM on 02/13/2012

They should have mentioned Amy during the main show along with Whitney and Etta.

[schwing schwing]

01:50 AM on 02/13/2012

Tony Bennett, what a lovely thing to do for Amy's parents :-)

[sfkjeld]

12:41 AM on 02/13/2012

Appreciate the love in this thread for Amy. A stunning talent and a gut wrenching loss. "why don't 'cha come on over Valerie"...

[sfkjeld]

12:47 AM on 02/13/2012

Artists do not make very good business men, huh? Tell Miles, Jimi, and Bird about how they should have lived their lives. Sanctimonious oaf.

[ayisha]

04:57 AM on 02/13/2012

i want to agree with you, but then i think about the countless, nameless others who are not artists and are not famous, yet they also manage to fall prey to drugs and lose their lives in the process. the common factor seems to be the willingness to cross that point from which it is so incredibly difficult to return. it's incredibly romantic to paint addiction as a side effect of enormous artistic talent, but the reality is that some people make really poor choices in life, and many of them either don't get or choose to ignore the opportunities to reverse their own actions. no need for name calling. it defeats whatever point you are trying to make.

[Juliaflo]

08:37 AM on 02/13/2012

Don't forget Elenora Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday.

[Ferdinand Berkhof]

07:58 AM on 02/13/2012

"Let he who is without 'sin' cast the first stone."

[Tom Helios]

11:05 PM on 02/12/2012

It's interesting that the haters don't seem to notice that one of the greatest singers in the history of music chose Winehouse for a duet - and the songs on the album reflect that only the most remarkable artists of this generation were so privleged. There was a special filmed during the recording of the album, and Bennett was absolutely clear that he thought that Winehouse and Gaga were among the best vocalists he'd ever worked with. The Grammy that Bennett and Winehouse pretty much says it all.

[Hitchslap2]

11:14 PM on 02/12/2012

Amy Winehouse's amazing talent is lost on so many people. Why? Because so many people are lost, and they don't get it.

Rest in Peace Amy...Etta...Whitney

[efrallyn]

11:55 AM on 02/13/2012

exactly

[UserNameJane]

12:25 PM on 02/13/2012

I have to agree 100 percent.