amy lee and paul mccoy sang a cover of evanescence's song "bring me to life" in 2009.
amy lee and paul mccoy sang a cover of evanescence's song "bring me to life" in 2009.
who sang a cover of evanescence's song "bring me to life" in 2009?
amy lee and paul mccoy
welsh classical singer katherine jenkins recorded a cover version of "bring me to life" on her 2009 album "believe". jenkins said: "i'd mentioned that i wanted to try evanescence's bring me to life and david [foster] said 'you can't sing that'. i came out there questioning my vocal abilities. i'm just not used to being told that. i went home that night and i just thought to myself 'you have to pull yourself together, he's worked with so many incredible artists you have to step up the plate.' i did talk myself round and i went in there the next day on a mission. it's good to be pushed sometimes – and i proved him wrong!" jenkins decided to change the guitar-led and percussive original version and instead, "make it more orchestral with the percussion coming from the strings." alfred hickling of "the guardian" gave a mixed review of jenkins' cover, calling it "histrionic." however, a writer of bbc online chose her version of the song as a highlight on the album. on october 23, 2009, the song was available for digital download as the second single from "believe". on november 23, 2011, jenkins sang the song live at the leicester square station in london.
bring me to life
evanescence performed "bring me to life" at the webster hall in new york city in september 2003. during the performance, lee wore an "alice in wonderland" dress covered with scrawled words, including the words "dirty, useless, psycho and slut". she explained her reasons for wearing the dress. on her previous visit to new york city, lee had met a dj from the radio station k-rock, who had made what she called horrible comments about the pleasure he had derived from the picture of her face on the cover of "fallen". she had felt too ashamed to say anything, so she decided to respond through the dress, which represented something innocent that had been tainted. the band performed "bring me to life" during their concert at the saltair on october 25, 2006. lee wore red and black, with a skirt. she was called a magnet of the night by the "deseret news" reviewer larry d. curtis. other performances of the song were in magna, utah in october 2006, and the air canada centre in january 2007. the band also played the song at a secret gig in new york city on november 4, 2009. during their concert at war memorial auditorium in nashville, tennessee on august 17, 2011, evanescence performed "bring me to life" to promote their third album, "evanescence". they also performed the song during the 2011 rock in rio festival on october 2, 2011. while reviewing a concert by the band, caroline sullivan wrote "slowly raising her arms during bring me to life's thunderous, strobe-lit fade-out, she's missing only a chariot."
bring me to life