Amy Lee

Amy Lee on an appearance by Evanescence in 2015

Amy Lynn Hartzler (* 13. December 1981 in Riverside , California as Amy Lynn Lee ) is an American singer , pianist and songwriter . She is a member of the American rock group Evanescence . Your voice is mezzo-soprano .

Life

Amy Lee grew up in a very musical family. Her father, John Lee, was a member of a cover band known in Riverside and Orange Counties called The Hard Luck Band . Since Amy Lee's father also worked on the radio, the family often had to move, for example to Kansas City , Missouri and West Palm Beach , Florida . When Lee was six years old, her younger sister died, to whom she later dedicated two of her songs, Hello (album Fallen ) and Like You (album The Open Door ).

In Arkansas , Amy Lee first lived with her parents and three siblings in Maumelle , then in Little Rock , the capital of the US state. There she met 14-year-old Ben Moody at a summer camp at the age of 13 , with whom she formed the band Evanescence.

After marrying Josh Hartzler on May 6, 2007, she took on his last name.

In January 2014, Amy Lee filed a lawsuit against the record company Wind-Up Records for unpaid license fees. In March of the same year, the singer finally published on her Twitter account that the band was now independent.

She gave birth to a son in July 2014.

In August 2014 she released her first solo album Aftermath for the film War Story . She worked with the cellist Dave Eggar .

Singer in the band Evanescence

Lee made her breakthrough as a singer with Evanescence. The band's debut album was released in March 2003. In 2004 the band won two Grammy Awards . Also in 2004, Lee and her then boyfriend Shaun Morgan von Seether decided to re-record Seether's song Broken . Originally she should have been singing on the original version, which was not possible due to a misunderstanding. After a year and a half touring with Evanescence, Lee initially disappeared from the public eye.

The year 2005 she spent working on the new album The Open Door . In late summer 2005, the two-year relationship with Shaun Morgan broke up. In November 2005, her bandmate Terry Balsamo, Lee's songwriting partner, suffered a stroke .

On September 29, 2006 the Evanescence album The Open Door was released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This was followed by a tour through the USA, Canada and Europe.

The third studio album Evanescence was released on October 7, 2011.

On November 10, 2017, the fourth studio album "Synthesis" was released.

Out of the shadows

Amy Lee has been the National Epilepsy Foundation spokesperson in the United States since 2005 . Since her brother was affected by the disease (he died in 2018), Amy founded Out of the Shadows . Your goal is to educate people about epilepsy.

other projects

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Aftermath   UK 67 09/06/2014 (1 week)   US 47 09/13/2014 (1 week)

Singles

Broken ( Seether feat. Amy Lee)   DE 18th 07/05/2004 (9 weeks)   AT 26th 07/04/2004 (11 weeks)   CH 27 06/27/2004 (11 weeks)   US 20th 09/04/2004 (21 weeks) Freak on a Leash (Unplugged) ( Korn feat. Amy Lee)   US 89 03/17/2007 (1 week)

• Seether feat. Amy Lee - In 2004 the South African rock group Seether re-released their album "Disclaimer" under the name Disclaimer II . The new version of the album also contained a new recording of the ballad Broken , the soundtrack for The Punisher . Amy Lee took over the female vocal part.
• Big Dismal - Missing You - On the album Believe by the wind-up band Big Dismal there is a song called Missing You . The female voice that occasionally appears in the background is Amy Lee.
• David Hodges feat. Amy Lee - Lee sang on two songs by her former bandmate David Hodges : Breathe and Fall Into You .
• Chronicles of Narnia Soundtrack - Amy Lee planned two songs for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The King of Narnia , but the entries were rejected on the grounds that they were too "dark" and too "epic". The intro to one of the songs is now the one-minute intro to the Evanescence song Good Enough . The other song is called Lacrymosa and appeared on the Evanescence album The Open Door .
• Korn feat. Amy Lee - In December 2006, the American band Korn recorded an unplugged concert . Amy Lee was invited to perform the song Freak on a Leash . The unplugged album was released in February 2007. It was also broadcast on the music television network MTV .
• Nightmare Revisited (album with covers of songs from the Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack, 2008) - Amy Lee sings Sally's song , CD released September 29, 2008.
• Muppets: The Green Album - In the Muppet Show album, released on August 23, 2011, Amy Lee sings the title Halfway Down the Stairs . The song was composed by Harold Fraser-Simson, originated from the poem "Halfway Down" from the book "When We Were Very Young" by Alan Alexander Milne and was sung by Amy Lee as a cover version.
• War Story: She wrote the film score for the film War Story with the album title Aftermath together with cellist Dave Eggar. This was published on August 25, 2014.
• Indigo Gray: The Passage : Lee wrote a track for this film in 2015 with cellist Dave Eggar.
• Recover Vol. 1 : On February 19, 2016, Amy Lee released an EP with the covers of the songs With Or Withou You by U2 , Going To California by Led Zeppelin , Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing by Chris Isaac and It's A Fire by Portishead .
• Body Count feat. Amy Lee - On the published on 5 March 2020 album Carnivore by Body Count is Lee in the song When I'm Gone to hear a duet voice.

Filmography

In addition to Evanescence's music videos and live albums, Amy Lee has starred in a number of specially produced short films. In 2008 she worked with underground film producer Lucifer Valentine on Regoregitated Sacrifice.

• 2008: Regoregitated Sacrifice
• 2016: Amy Lee t'a s. ? Chanceux!
• 2016: Amy Lee en a plein l'c.

Web links

Commons : Amy Lee  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Amy Lee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Amy Lee fan page

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 'Evanescence' Singer Sues - Our Very Own Label is Our Worst Enemy . In: TMZ.com , January 3, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014. 
2. ^ Graham Hartmann: Evanescence Singer Amy Lee Reportedly Suing Record Label for More Than $ 1 Million . In: Loudwire.com , January 3, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2014. 
3. ^ Graham Hartmann: Evanescence's Amy Lee: 'For the First Time in 13 Years, I Am a Free and Independent Artist' . In: Loudwire.com , March 20, 2014. 
4. ↑ Evanescence Singer Amy Lee is pregnant online, (English)
5. ↑ http://hollywoodlife.com/2018/01/11/robby-lee-dies-evanescence-amy-brother-dead/
6. ↑ Chart sources: UK
7. ↑ Weezer, Paramore, Evanescence for Muppets tribute album , released on New Musical Express on June 27, 2011
8. ↑ Amy Lee Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 10, 2018 (American English).