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Amy Lee (born December 13, 1981 in Riverside, CaliforniaAmy Lee is an American singer and songwriter. She founded the band Evanescence with Ben Moody. The two met at a youth camp when Lee was playing Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)" on the piano.

Her father (John Lee) works as a DJ, and her mother (Sarah Lee) works raising Lee's three siblings: her brother Robbie and her two sisters, Carrie and Lori. At school, Lee was president of the choir council, and appeared in a number of plays. She has never had professional voice lessons, but has had classical piano lessons which she took for nine years. Her family moved to many places, including Illinois, Kansas, and Florida, but finally settled in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Evanescence started. She graduated from Pulaski Academy in the year 2000. She also briefly attended Middle Tennessee State University.

table d clothing. She is known to design her own clothes and even sews them herself. Starting her own clothing line has not been ruled out, according to her, although she has expressed concerns about the viability of such an endeavor; she has said that she prefers to create unique hand-crafted costumes rather than mass-produced fashions. In concerts, she often wears a corset or fishnet, and has a notable piercing on her left eyebrow which is visible on the cover of (Evanescence's debut album).

Many fans praise Lee for her refusal to emulate other celebrities by using sex appeal in her music. She has stated on a number of occasions that she would never flash her breasts or engage in other publicity stunts which would draw attention to herself. The only exception was featured in the behind the scenes of the live albumdvd Anywhere But Home. In the behind the scenes feature, the band stood on a balcony and mooned their fans as a joke. In fact, in the music video for "Every's Fool," she aimed to mock such artists by suggesting celebrities who use sex to appeal to an audience are "every's fool" and are in fact, merely peddling "lies" (the unifying theme of the music video).

Lee once stated in an interview while on tour that the successful duet "Bring Me to Life", featuring Paul McCoy of 12 Stones, was inspired when she met a friend of a friend: a total stranger who did not know her, yet could somehow "see inside her." When he spoke, his words "woke her up inside." This encounter with a true "Word of Knowledge" inspired the hit that would launch her career.

Other projects

She is featured on the hit Seether track "Broken" (a duet with ex-boyfriend Shaun Morgan), which is featured on their album and was writing additional music for the film, but her music was rejected due to it being "too dark and epic."

Lee is working with the Epilepsy Foundation to help raise awareness for the illness. Due to the delay of Evanesence's second album, the commercials for Amy's Epilepsy Fund - "Out Of The Shadows" (which were supposed to air in December 2005) will also be delayed.

Lawsuit

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 position as manager of Evanescence. In return, Lee filed a countersuit against Rider for "breach of fiduciary duty, sexual assault and battery, professional negligence, currency conversion, and other charges". The suit also claims Rider "neglected Lee's career and business and has focused his efforts on having extramarital affairs, hiding them from his wife, becoming intoxicated during business meetings, physically abusing women and boasting about it, making repeated unwelcome sexual advances toward Lee, receiving fees in excess of what was provided for in his management agreement and using Lee's corporate credit card to purchase gifts for his mistress." [1]

Lee has announced that Evanescence will be releasing their album in August 2006. She says that she is sorry for the delay in an interview.