Biographic - Sunday April 18, 2010 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Amy Lee, the lead singer with Grammy-winning rockers Evanescence, was born in Riverside, California, on December 13, 1981, her dad was a DJ and the family moved frequently, eventually settling in little Rock, Arkansas, Amy took classical piano lessons for 9 years and went on to enroll at Middle Tennessee State University to study music theory and composition. By that point, she was already well on the way to rock stardom. She met guitarist Ben Moody at a youth camp when she was 13 and he was 14, and within a month they were performing in local bookstores and coffee houses. Choosing the name Evanescence, which means "to fade from sight," they recruited band members, giggled extensively and issued a series of releases. The band's 2003 major label debut album "Fallen" spent 43 weeks in the Billboard Top 10, sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide and spawned the smash-hit single "Bring Me to Life." The debut also earned them two Grammy awards. But the success was tempered by the departure of founding member Moody, who quit during a European tour. A live album, "Anywhere But Home" was followed by the band's sophomore studio album, "The Open Door" in 2006. It topped the U.S. charts, but inner conflicts saw the departure of three more band members. Outside of Evanescence, Amy has collaborated with such bands as seether and Korn, and contributed a track to a cover album of songs from the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas" she married therapist Josh Hartzler in 2007. The eagerly awaited third Evanescence studio album will drop in the fall of 2010.

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