Amy lee- The Fallen angel
Born to a DJ father and famous TV personality mother, Amy Lee has startled the entire music industry with her deep emotional and ethereal soprano voice and classically trained piano styles. Amy Lynn Lee, the co-founder and the female lead of the band Evanescence which has had rock fans throughout the world banging heads to their rhythms, says that she always wanted to be a classical composer ever since she was young that even her grade school assignments were based on it.
Amy lee met the future co-founder of Evanescence, Ben Moody, at a youth camp and the two hit upon the success formula, sold over 20 millions albums and have been in the heights ever since. Amy lee feels that Evanescence has been influenced by the likes of Mozart and is more of a gothic metal band than that of a rock band, since it glamorizes emotional feelings and helps people connect with them more easily.
Amy lee is widely recognized as a gothic fashion icon with her left-pierced eyebrows, light make up, dark defined eyes, blood red lips, fish net stockings. She claims that she’s more into the Victorian style clothing and she dresses in lavish flowing skirts and appealing corsets for most of the shows and from time to time is seen to where rather nice jewellery. It is yet to be seen if she we join the charm bracelet frenzy and try out a nomination bracelet or something similar such as lovelinks beads.
Fans have always held Amy in a high regard since she never resorts to publicity stunts or flashes or flaunts her assets to gain false attention. She’s even known to stitch her own clothes for a few shows and she openly despises and mocks artists who just seek attention more than the love for the art of music! She has also been named as one of the hottest women in the rock genre. Amy Lee’s never been the one to fall under the pressures of maintaining a thin figure to fit into the music industry, instead prefers to maintain a healthy living and even voiced her opinion when there was talk about Britney Spear’s being fat!
Amy Lee says her songs are written from the depth of her soul and some of it are from her own personal experiences in life. Like ‘Hello’ from the album Fallen was written in memory of her younger sister who died at 3 due to unexplained illness. She even stated that she wrote the songs ‘my immortal’ and ‘bring me to life’ after being inspired by her husband on her first meeting with him.
Amy Lee’s younger brother suffered an epileptic attack when she was young and she was extremely terrified of the seizures because she had no idea as to what it was and even thought that he was possessed.
She says she realizes now that so much of fear and panic was pointless and hence she decided to donate to an organization which educates people about epilepsy after this incident with her own younger brother. Amy Lee married Josh Hartzler, her long time friend, in an ivory Victorian styled gown at a private ceremony in her homeland of Arkansas. Since then she stated to her fans that she has officially changed her name to Mrs., Amy Hartzler.