Amy Lee (real name - Amy Lynn Lee) is an American singer-songwriter and classically-trained pianist. She was born on December 13, 1981 in Riverside, California.

She is a founding member and lead singer of the Grammy Award winning rock band Evanescence. Her influences range from classical musicians such as Mozart to modern artists like Björk, Tori Amos, Danny Elfman, and Plumb.

She co-founded the band Evanescence with Ben Moody. Within a month, the pair were playing acoustic sets at Arkansas book stores and coffee houses, and they eventually recorded two EPs, Evanescence EP (1998) and Sound Asleep EP (1999), selling them at various local venues. In 2000, Evanescence recorded the longer EP Origin. This demo contains three songs from the debut album “Fallen” and was written by Lee and Moody: "Whisper", "Imaginary" and "My Immortal".

In late 2007, VH1 produced a mockumentary in the style of Behind the Music, titled Rock Band Cometh: The Rock Band Band Story, to promote the video game Rock Band. Lee was one of the celebrity cameos featured on the show.

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