Amy
Hartzler (born Amy Lynn Lee, December 13, 1981 in Riverside,
California), best known as Amy Lee, is an American
singer-songwriter and classically-trained pianist. 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. Lee had claimed to be working on music for The
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but
that the music was rejected for being "Too dark and
epic." However, the producers of Narnia stated that Lee was
never asked to compose any music for the film, whose score was
written by Harry Gregson-Williams, and that "No Evanescence
music was planned for the soundtrack." While there was some
speculation that one of the supposed songs had been cut and used
in several tracks of The Open Door, Lee stated this was not true
except for part of it being used to segue into the last track of
the album, "Good Enough". 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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