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Ahead of her first Dubai gig Amy Lee opens up about Evanescence
Founder and lead singer of goth-inspired rock band Evanescence Amy Lee is not one to mince her words. “Hell no,” said the straight-talking Lee on whether or not Ben Moody, the band’s now-departed co-founder, guitarist and writer of their hit song My Immortal, was ever missed. “What this band is and has been is something I feel very strongly about,” she added, her tone making it clear she was not going to justify anything to anyone. “It’s always been me and someone which created a sound. Now it’s me and others — a band. It sounds different, which comes across in the music. Each song carries a part of each person and I love that. In any song on the last album I can hear the personality of each person.” Having reportedly axed a number of former members over the years, Lee picked up a control freak reputation when it came to the band she created aged just 17. Speaking ahead of the group’s debut performance in Dubai on Friday, the transition from a duo to band was not an easy one according to Lee. “It’s hard,” she reluctantly said. “It’s pushed me out of my comfort zone. We’d sit around and jam and all have an input and it wasn’t something I was used to. But I realised the end result was the music had such depth which meant vocally I could start to have more fun.” Lee’s reluctance to cut the apron strings on a sound she still calls her “baby” is admirable. The 30-year-old from Arkansas and Moody formed the band at the end of the ’90s after meeting in their early teens during a youth camp. Moody told a US newspaper he heard Lee playing Meat Loaf’s I’d Do Anything for Love on the piano and was “blown away” by her talent. |
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