“𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉. 𝑰𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍.”
― Amy Lee



Amy Lynn Hartzler (née Lee; born December 13, 1981, Riverside, California), best known as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence.
Amy Lee was born to parents John Lee, a disc jockey and TV personality, and Sara Cargill. She has two sisters, Carrie and Lori. Lee had a younger sister named Bonnie who died in 1987 at the age of three from an unidentified illness, and a brother Robby who died in 2018. The song "Hello" from Fallen has been reported to have been written for her late sister, as well as the song "Like You" from The Open Door. Amy took classical piano lessons for nine years. Her family moved to many places, including Florida and Illinois, and eventually settled in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Evanescence started. She briefly attended Middle Tennessee State University to study music theory and composition and later dropped out to focus on Evanescence.