Vital Stats
• Birthname: Amy Lynn Lee
• Date of Birth: December 13, 1981
• Location of Birth: Riverside, CA (at the Parkview Hospital)
• Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
• Mother: Sara Cargill (of the Clan Drummond)
• Father: John Lee (a disc jockey and TV personality)
• Sisters: Carrie (born around 1990) and Lori (born around 1992)
• Brother: Robbie (born around 1995)
• Spouse: Josh Hartzler (since May 06, 2007)
• Pets: Kitten named ‘Zero’
• Residence: Lives in New York
• Height: 5′ 3½” (1.61 m)
• Hair colour: Light Brown (dyed black)
• Eye colour: Blue
• Past Relationships: Dated Seether frontman Shaun Morgan (from 2003 – 2005)
Favourites
• Actor: Giovanni Ribisi
• Artists: Nirvana, Michael Jackson, NIN (Trent Reznor) and Coldplay
• Car: A Dolorian (Back to the Future, plus the Flux capacitator)
• Cheesy 80’s Song: “Everything She Wants” by Wham
• Era: Victorian era (She really liked the clothes.)
• Female Singers: Janis Joplin, Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Bjork, Carole King and Tori Amos
• Hobbies: Painting, Drawing, and Writing in her journals
• Holiday: Halloween
• Movies: An American Tail and The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Place: The Beach (She loves the ocean.)
• Zombie Movie: Dead Alive
Did you know?
• Amy has a lyric mezzo-soprano vocal range.
• Her eyes are light green and she sometimes wears darker blue or green contacts.
• Amy’s life philosophy is “love yourself”.
• Amy says she is more scared of being in a haunted house than being on a roller coaster.
• Amy is a spokesperson for the National (American) Epilepsy Foundation.
• When Amy was offered a cameo in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, she requested to play a character that gets killed.
• Amy dislikes fast food, especially McDonalds and Burger King.
• Amy finds smoking unattractive.
• Amy was voted Sexiest Female in Kerrang! Magazine in 2006.
• In 1987, Amy’s younger sister Bonnie deceased. At the time, she was only 3 years old.
• “Like You”, off their most recent album The Open Door, is about committing suicide to join a loved one who has recently passed away, in this case Amy’s younger sister. This is the second known song Amy Lee has written about suicide.
• Amy has once said in an interview that she cries a lot over little stuff, good or bad.
• When she was in middle school, she insists that she was, “overweight and had poofy hair”.
• Is named after the 70s song “Amie”.
• She was meeting a few of her friends at a restaurant when a guy she barely knew looked into her eyes and asked her “Are you happy?”. She knew that she truly wasn’t, and those simple words really struck her. That is how the opening lines to the song “Bring Me To Life”, “how can you see into my eyes like open doors…” came about.
• Says that if she didn’t become famous she would “help people in some way” by being a nurse or social worker. Especially helping abused kids.
• Had encounters with stalkers. Hence brought the song “Snow White Queen” on Evanescence’s latest album The Open Door. The title came from ‘Snow white’ which is a nickname given to her by fans. and ‘Queen’ Amy said that the scary attention that the stalker gave her made her feel in a twisted way “like a Queen”.
• Father, John Lee, is also a a Television spokesperson for various regional and local advertisers and won NBC’s “The Gong Show” in 1980. He defeated Pee Wee Herman by playing guitar and singing, “Desperado.”.
• Became engaged to her longtime friend and boyfriend Josh, a 28-year-old therapist (January 8, 2007).
After her 3 year old sister’s tragic death, Amy wrote a song called Hello, it’s track 9 on their debut album “Fallen”. It was performed for her family. It’s personal, so personal that she says she can’t perform it live at concerts because she’ll go into a serious breakdown.
• Was an alto in her school choir.
• While growing up, she and her family moved frequently to many places, including West Palm Beach, Illinois, Kansas, and Florida before finally settling in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• Was president of the choir council her senior year. She wrote a choir arrangement called “Listen to the Rain” which was performed by the school choir at graduation.
• Briefly attended Middle Tennessee State University.
Attended and graduated from Pulaski Academy, a private elementary and junior/senior high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, class of 2000.
• She is a classically trained pianist. She spent 9 years studying classical piano in her youth.
• She thinks that a girl should try to pay on a date, but would go “hmm” if he doesn’t try to stop her.
• She hates Baha Men’s “Who Let’s the Dogs Out”.
• She had a cat named Feivel, because of her favorite movies was An American Tail.
• Her worst vice is Godiva chocolate.
• The first tape album she owned was The California Raisins tape.
• She saids that the guys stink after a show, especially her.
• She loves Stevie Wonder, she even trys to copy his style!
• Her embarrassing crush is Corey Feldman from The Goonies.
• The last thing she bought was about 50 CDs. She can’t live without Soundgarden’s Superunknown and Dr. Dre’s The Chronic.
• She doesn’t understand why anyone want’s to wear thongs – she prefers panties anyday.
• She loves to drive, but when she does, she scares her passengers to death.
• She hates politics, and thinks Arnold Schwarzenegger is hilarious.
• No diet for her, she prefers full-fat.
• She thinks Jason is scarier than Freddy, because you don’t know how his face looks like.
• She prefers cash over checks.
• She designs most of her own costumes.
• She believes in the supernatural, she played in a haunted club once. She even sensed a presence many times!
• She describes herself in 3 words: unique, sympathetic, misunderstood.
• She’s allergic to lobster, if she eats it she could go into a coma.
• If she could bring one thing to a deserted island, it would be a piano.
• She doesn’t really have an childhood names, it was always either Amy, Ames, or Amers.
• Michael Jackson was her idol growing up.
• If she weren’t in Evanescence, she would probably be in college studying music.
• She wanted to be a veterinarian when she was a kid.
• She has a huge fear of sharks.