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Amy Lynn Hartzler (known professionally as Amy Lee) was born on December 13, 1981 to John Lee, a disc jockey and voiceover artist, and Sara Cargill. She trained in classical piano since childhood, originally inspired by Mozart and Danny Elfman's film scores. The death of her little sister at six years old significantly affected her emotional state and outlook on life. In her preteen years, her family moved around the country, including Florida, Illinois, and finally settling in Little Rock, Arkansas. 13-year old Amy met 14-year old guitarist Ben Moody in 1994 at a summer camp, where she played piano and he acoustic guitar. They began writing and playing music together, and performed at local shops and cafes. They decided on the name Evanescence, released independent EPs, a demo CD, and were signed by Wind-Up Records in 2001. In 2003, their debut album "Fallen" was released, becoming a major commercial success driven by hit singles such as "Bring Me To Life" and "My Immortal". "Fallen" was followed by the release of "The Open Door" in 2006, the self-titled album "Evanescence" in 2011, the orchestral-electronica album Synthesis in 2017, and their latest album, The Bitter Truth in 2021.

As a solo artist, Amy has composed soundtracks for films (including the indie film War Story (2014) with friend and cellist Dave Eggar), and contributed to the Underworld (2003) soundtrack and musical projects such as 2008's Nightmare Revisited, Muppets:The Green Album (2011) and We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash (2012). She has released a covers EP, a film soundtrack, and a children's album. She has also collaborated with various artists, such as Korn, Bring Me the Horizon, Seether, Lindsey Stirling, and Dave Stewart.

I&#39;m glad that people are accepting our music and are connected to our
art. Whether we&#39;re popular or not, I don&#39;t care.

&quot;The fact that he left the band, it wasn&#39;t like it killed me and hurt
my feelings and made me feel like I lost a friend, it was actually more
of a relief because he&#39;d been so unhappy on tour recently that it was
making everyone else unhappy. We all hope he&#39;s happier now.&quot; -
commenting on Ben Moody&#39;s decision to leave the band.

&quot;We&#39;re definitely a rock band, but the twist is that the band&#39;s music
is epic, dramatic, dark rock.&quot; - on Evanescence.

My darlings, if I can&#39;t write dark, epic music, i can&#39;t live!

My little sister was really getting into these, I don&#39;t want to offend anyone, but like really fake, cheesy, slutty female cracker-box idols, and it really pissed me off. She started dressing like them and she was like 8 years old. So I gave her the talk and I wrote a song [Everybody&#39;s Fool].

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