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EVANESCENCE
While attending a youth camp in Little Rock,
AR, in her early teens, singer and pianist Amy
Lee began growing the seeds of Evanescence,
teaming up with guitarist and co-songwriter
Ben Moody to record a pair of EPs in the late
’90s and a demo LP, Origin, in 2000 before
graduating high school. A copy found its way
to Wind-up Records, which signed the band in
early 2001 and saw the duo refine their unique,
signature sound as it expanded to a quintet. Two
years later, Evanescence delivered the break-
through disc Fallen, which spent 43 weeks in
Billboard’s top 10 thanks to the global top-10 hits
“Bring Me to Life” and “My Immortal,” both of
which were featured in the film Daredevil and
respectively were platinum- and gold-sellers as
singles. It became one of only eight albums in
history to spend more than a year in Billboard’s
top 50, thanks to the popularity of additional
singles “Going Under” and “Everybody’s Fool,”
both of which were major rock chart hits in the
US, remaining on the Top 200 Albums chart for
a total of 104 weeks. It currently ranks as number
32 on Billboard’s list of the greatest 200 albums
of all time. Evanescence earned six Grammy
nominations from the disc, including for Album
of the Year, winning Best New Artist honors as
well as the Best Hard Rock Performance award
for “Bring Me to Life.” With Moody depart-
ing the group during the ensuing tour—which
was captured on 2004’s CD/DVD Anywhere
but Home—and heightened emphasis on pro-
duction, it wasn’t until 2006 that Evanescence
returned with The Open Door and lead single
“Call Me When You’re Sober,” another platinum,
top-10 hit. The band returned to the recording
studio between early 2010 and mid-2011 after
further lineup changes, crafting its second num-
ber-one album, Evanescence. After a few years’
hiatus, the band returned to touring in 2016 and
to recording in 2017, revisiting many of their
hits with a new orchestra/electronic sound on
Synthesis. The top-10 disc also featured two new
tracks, including “Hi-Lo” with Lindsey Stirling.
Evanescence is making its Ravinia debut.
LINDSEY STIRLING
Growing up in Arizona, Lindsey Stirling be-
gan playing the violin at age 5 and during high
school performed in a rock group called Stomp
on Melvin. She began to combine a nascent
interest in dance with her original rock-violin
music, creating her YouTube channel “lindsey-
stomp” in 2007 and three years later compet-
ing on America’s Got Talent. After reaching the
quarterfinals, Stirling collaborated with cinema-
tographer Devin Graham on creating a video
for her song “Spontaneous Me,” sparking a swift
rise in the popularity of her YouTube channel,
and she began writing and recording more orig-
inal music (building on her 2010 EP) for her
2012 self-titled debut album. The video for the
single “Crystallize,” co-directed by Stirling and
Graham, became YouTube’s eighth-most viewed
video that year, and she subsequently signed
with Lady Gaga’s management, Atom Factory.
Her debut disc was re-released in 2013 and made
Billboard ’s top 25, and later that year her collab-
oration with Pentatonix on a cover of Imagine
Dragons’ “Radioactive” won a YouTube Music
Award. This all paved the way for her sophomore
disc, Shatter Me, to hit number two upon its re-
lease in 2014, holding the top spot on Billboard’s
Classical Album chart for 21 weeks and finishing
the year as the number two Dance/Electronic
Album, consequently earning the 2015 Billboard
Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Album.
Stirling published the autobiography The Only
Pirate at the Party , co-written with her younger
sister, in early 2016 and announced that a third
album, Brave Enough, would be released later
that year. With guests such as ZZWard, Weezer’s
Rivers Cuomo, Christina Perri, and Andrew
McMahon, the disc debuted at number five, also
topping both the Classical and Dance/Electron-
ic Albums charts—this time it finished the year
as the top Dance/Electronic Album and Stirling
took home the same Billboard Music Award in
2017. This past fall, she competed on Dancing
with the Stars (finishing in second place) and re-
leased the Christmas disc Warmer in the Winter ,
featuring Trombone Shorty on her original title
track. Lindsey Stirling is making her Ravinia
debut.
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