According to Blabbermouth.net, although it's been a long time since Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee believed in Santa Claus, the former resident of Little Rock, Arkansas told The Pulse Of Radio that when she was a little girl, her father did his very best to make St. Nick seem real. "My dad was the coolest dad around Christmas time," she said.
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He'd go out on the lawn - like, put everybody to bed, 'Okay, Santa's gonna come, you've got to go to bed' - he'd go outside and jingle these jingle bells like off in the distance in the yard and go, 'Ho, ho, ho,' and then he'd take a football and throw it up on the roof, so they would like tumble down and sound like somebody was landing on the roof. And I remember as a kid, always thinking, 'I really heard Santa Claus this year. It's really real, he's here, he's in there!'"
Lee was born in 1981 in Riverside, California, but her family eventually settled in Little Rock, Arkansas, where her father was a successful radio personality.
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At least she explained the great lengths he went through to make it a pretty cool experience, but everyones parents did this no? My dad would make roof tracks on the roof and would have "Santa" call the day before asking if our fireplace was off so he could come down the chimney, etc.