Amy Lee

Amy Lee dated Shaun Morgan, a musician with the band Seether, and was later engaged to Ben Moody. But she eventually married Josh Hartzler, a therapist and long time friend, in 2007.

The singer has an estimated worth of $245 million, owns the Fat Lee Burger chain of restaurants, a football team, the Riverside Angels, and a fashion line Amy Lee Seduction.

Amy Lee was born to John Lee, a disc jockey and Sara Cargill. He siblings include brother, Robby, and two sisters, Carrie and Lori. She lost a younger sister, Lee, to an unidentified disease.

Her family moved from California to Florida and then to Illinois and finally settled down in Arkansas. She showed keen interest in piano since childhood and aspired to become a classical composer.

Amy Lee was studying music at the ‘Middle Tennessee State University’ but discontinued the course after meeting Ben Moody, a lead guitarist, at a youth camp, to form ‘Evanescence’ in 1995.

‘Evanescence’ played on local radio stations until they released limited copies of two Extended Plays between 1998 and 1999, the first was self-titled, ‘Evanescence EP’, and the second, the ‘Sound Asleep EP’.

In 2000, the band recorded, ‘EP Origin’, with songs such as ‘Whisper’, ‘Imaginary’ and ‘My Immortal’. These songs, penned by band’s founders, were included in a later album because of their popularity.

Lee sang two songs as guest vocalist in the year 2000 for ‘Evanescence’ keyboardist David Hodge—‘Breathe’ and, ‘Fall Into You’. However, ‘Fall Into You’, was not released.

She provided the vocal support for, ‘Missing You’, a song by ‘Big Dismal’, a Florida based post-grunge Christian Rock band featuring Eric Durrance, Chuck Shea, Gary Sobel and Jeff Chomin, in 2003.

‘Fallen’, released in 2004, was the first album of ‘Evanescence’ - Amy Lee’s band. It has sold well over 15 million copies worldwide and about five and half million in the US alone.

Her band released their second album, ‘The Open Door’, in 2006, which sold 5 million copies worldwide, debuted at NO.1 in the U.S, Australia, Germany, Greece, Japan, and Switzerland and did well in other parts of Europe as well.