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Amy Lee
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Amy Lynn Lee (born December 13, 1981 in Riverside, California) is an American singer and songwriter. She founded the band Evanescence with Ben Moody. The two met at a youth camp when Lee was playing Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)" on the piano.
Amy Lee at the 2003 Billboard Music Awards wearing a corsetHer father (John Lee) works as a DJ, and her mother (Sarah Lee) works raising Lee's three siblings: her brother Robby and her two sisters, Carrie and Lori. Amy had a third sister who died at the young age of 3 due to an unknown cause, and the song Hello from the Fallen album was written in her memory. [1] At school, Lee was president of the choir council, and appeared in a number of plays. She has never had professional voice lessons, but she is a mezzo-soprano singer and could have been a soprano if she had taken voice lessons. She has had classical piano lessons which she took for ten years. Her family moved to many places, including Illinois, Kansas, and Florida, but finally settled in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Evanescence started. She graduated from Pulaski Academy in the year 2000. She also briefly attended Middle Tennessee State University.
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Lee has a trademark neo-goth style, marked by her occasional use of gothic make-up and taste for Victorian-styled clothing. She is known to design her own clothes and even sews them herself. Starting her own clothing line has not been ruled out, according to her, although she has expressed concerns about the viability of such an endeavor; she has said that she prefers to create unique hand-crafted costumes rather than mass-produced fashions. In concerts, she often wears a corset or fishnet, and has a notable piercing on her left eyebrow which is visible on the cover of Fallen (Evanescence's debut album).
Many fans praise Lee for her refusal to emulate other celebrities by using sex appeal in her music. She has stated on a number of occasions that she would never flash her breasts or engage in other publicity stunts which would draw attention to herself. In fact, in the music video for "Everybody's Fool," she aimed to mock such artists by suggesting celebrities who use sex to appeal to an audience are "everybody's fool" and are in fact, merely peddling "lies" (the unifying theme of the music video).
Lee once stated in an interview while on tour that the successful duet "Bring Me to Life", featuring Paul McCoy of 12 Stones, was inspired when she met a friend of a friend: a total stranger who did not know her, yet could somehow "see inside her." When he spoke, his words "woke her up inside." This encounter with a true "Word of Knowledge" inspired the hit that would launch her career.
"Out of The Shadows" Campaign
Amy has become a spokesperson for the Epilepsy Foundation and has launched a campaign called "Out of the Shadows". The goal is to help spread awareness about epilepsy and to show others that people with it deserve to be treated fairly and not be discriminated against. This campaign is important to Amy, as well as her family, because her younger brother has epilepsy and she has seen first hand the effect it has.
Other projects
She is featured on the hit Seether track "Broken" (a duet with ex-boyfriend Shaun Morgan), which is featured on their album Disclaimer II as well as the soundtrack for the 2004 film The Punisher.
Lee was working on the opening theme of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and was writing additional music for the film, but her music was rejected due to it being too dark and epic for the movie.
However, Amy has been quoted as saying that the material she didn't use for the movie is just more material for the new album, which is entitled "The Open Door", confirmed by Rocky Gray's wife after the title ran in the May 2006 issue of the music magazine Blender. The album is slated to be released on Oct 3, confirmed by Wind-Up Records and the official Evanescence website,
www.evanescence.com.
For more information on the new album visit EvanescenceWebsite.com.
