Amy Lee is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is a founding member and lead singer of Evanescence rock Grammy. His influence ranges from classical musicians such as Mozart to modern artists like Björk, Tori Amos, Danny Elfman, and Plumb.
She co-founded the group with Ben Moody. They met at a youth camp when he heard Lee Meat Loaf "I'll give everything for love (but I will not do)" on the piano. In a month, played a couple of speakers in bookstores and cafes of Arkansas, and they eventually recorded two EPs, Evanescence EP (1998) and Sound Asleep EP (1999), selling them at various local sites. In 2000, Evanescence recorded over the original MOU. This example contains three songs from the album Fallen and was written by Lee and Moody: "Whisper", "imaginary" and "My Immortal". Whereas "Whisper" and "Imaginary" underwent further changes before switching to the Fallen, "My Immortal" are almost identical. Later version of "My Immortal" was made available for download for those who bought the official version of Fallen through their official website, but you need the CD check program can also be downloaded for verification before it will play. Group version was later included a copy of the Fallen, in particular, the Brazilian and Argentinian editions.
October 22, 2003, guitarist Ben Moody left the band citing "creative differences". In an interview several months later, Amy said: "We have reached the point that if something is not changed, we would not be able to make a second record." She also said: "We are finally a real band, not just Ben and me and some others thrown together". Ex-Cold guitarist Terry Balsamo replaced Moody in the band, as the guitar and write, as a partner of Lee.
On December 1, 2005, former Evanescence manager Dennis Rider filed a lawsuit against Lee for breach of contract. The suit claims Rider was prematurely and unjustly terminated from his post as manager of Evanescence.
In return, Lee filed suit against Ryder cons breach of fiduciary duty, sexual assault and battery, professional negligence, currency conversion, and other charges. " The prosecution also claims Rider "neglected Lee's career and business and focused on their husbands, hiding from his wife, becoming intoxicated during business meetings, abusing women and boasting, making repeated unwanted sexual harassment Lee, receiving fees in excess of what was envisaged in its contract management and use of credit cards companies to buy gifts for his mistress. "
Lawyer rider, Bert Deixler, said in a statement that the rider had been fully complied with all obligations and liabilities of the company under the management agreement, and has always led with the highest professional standards.
Lee claimed that work on music for "The Chronicles of Narnia." Too dark and epic "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but the music was turned down because she Nevertheless, the producers of Narnia Lee said that he never asked to compose music for the film, whose score was written by Harry Gregson-Williams, and that "No Evanescence music had been planned for the soundtrack."
Although it has been suggested that one of the alleged songs were cut and used in several tracks on the "open door", Lee said that this was not true, except it is often used to monitor the last track on the album, "good enough".
Lee revealed during the recording Much Music January 9, 2007 episode of Live @ large that he began to study at night. Then she confirmed it was suggested EvThreads.com Josh Hartzler, a 29-year-old physician and longtime friend. She said in an interview that the song "good enough" and "Bring Me To Life" were inspired by him. The couple was married May 6, 2007, and nearly a honeymoon in the Bahamas. She has published on EvThreads is "now officially Mrs. Amy Hartzler."
Lee recognizable style goth, marked by her occasional use of Gothic make-up and taste for Victorian-style clothing. It also develops many of his own clothing, including wearing in the video for the song "Going Under", the dress she wore at the Grammy Awards in 2004, and suit for the cover of the open door. After she is she chose Japanese designer Naoto H. do for her. At these concerts, she often wears a corset and fishnets and long skirts and boots. She used to have a notable piercing on her left eyebrow which is visible on the cover of Fallen.
She has repeatedly said that she would never flash her breasts or engage in other gimmicks advertising that attracts attention. In fact, in the video for the song "Everybody's Fool", she seeks to emulate such artists, offering celebrities who use sex to please the audience, in fact, that the movement of "false" (the theme basis of the music video). Many fans praised Lee for her refusal to emulate other celebrities sex appeal in her music. In 2006, Blender listed Lee as one of the hottest women in rock alongside such singers as Joan Jett, Courtney Love and Liz Phair.
In 2000, Lee Sang vocals on two songs, the former Evanescence keyboardist David Hodges: "Breathe" (Summit Church: Summit Worship) and the previously unreleased "Fall Into You". She sang in chorus "Missing You", a song on Big Dismal in 2003 debut album Believe, and sang backing vocals on two songs with the "supergroup" So overwhelming, but his voice was removed from the final version because of a problem label. Lee later performed a duet with her ex-boyfriend Shaun Morgan on the song "Broken" by Seether in 2004 album Disclaimer II. The song was also presented as part of the soundtrack to the 2004 film The Punisher.
In 2006, Lee became the U.S. President for the Out of the Shadows ", an international fund to educate others about epilepsy. Lee's younger brother, Robbie, was diagnosed with this condition.
The singer also made a brief appearance in the video for Johnny Cash "Gonna Cut God You Down", where she chose to appear laying flowers on the grave. It was recorded at Trinity Church in Manhattan. During filming, she wore a "long-sleeved jacket in black velvet," which belonged to Tim Burton.
Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn, Lee was featured in the song "Freak on a leash." The song is also the first single from the album and was released on radio and television in early February 2007.
In late 2007, VH1 produced a mockumentary style of music behind, under the title Rock Band is coming: Rock Band Band history, to facilitate the videogame Rock Band. Lee was one of the top cameos featured on the show.
