Amanda Somerville, known in metal circles for her work with EPICA, AFTER FOREVER and EDGUY as a backing vocalist, vocal coach and collaborator, has issued the following update:

“Hello everyone, especially this time to EVANESCENCE fans,

I was searching the web for an interview I'd done a while ago and serendipity-stumbled upon these threads on an Evanescence forum:

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and this on YouTube.

A lot of you know my song, ‘Angel of Mine’ (which can be heard at the YouTube link), but I got quite a kick out of reading what others have written about it. Apparently there's been some sort of controversy with people thinking that the song was an early, unreleased demo sung by Amy Lee of Evanescence (I'm taking this as a compliment).

I guess it was on LimeWire and some other sites for people to download and listed without an author or as ‘Amy Lee’ or ‘Evanescence’ as the author/performer. There are a bunch of discussions about it, also on YouTube and Wikipedia.

Amy Lee herself even commented on it, saying that she checked it out and, ‘Nope, I've never heard this before. It's not me!’

Here's what I posted to the forum:

‘Angel of Mine’ was indeed written and sung by me and one that I recorded in December of 1998 in my parents' basement on a piece of crap 8-track as a demo! I believe this was probably quite some time before anyone had ever heard of Amy Lee or Evanescence. It was released on my first solo CD called, ‘In The Beginning, There Was…’ in 2000. I got a kick out your postings, though! I had NO idea there was such a controversy built up around the song.’”