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Years active
  
2002–present

Children
  
Luca Smith Bella Smith


Name
  
Bambi Monroe

Role
  
Singer-songwriter


Full Name
  
Taylor Ashley Horn

Born
  
October 12, 1992 (age 31) (
1992-10-12
)
Redlands, California, United States

Occupation
  
Singer-songwriter musician actress blogger vlogger

Spouse(s)
  
Timothy "Tim" Bennett Smith

Relatives
  
Lesley Jones (grandmother) Ronald Jones (grandfather)

Website
  
www.reverbnation.com/thetrending

Albums
  
Changes, Taylor-Made, A Taylor Horn Christmas

Genres
  
Pop music, Rock music, Country

Similar People
  
Arturo Sandoval, Dave Vanian, Brian Kennedy, Jane Siberry, Sam Moore

The Valentines Song by Tim from Civilized Tears


Ashley Taylor Smith (born Ashley Taylor Horn on October 12, 1992) is a former American singer-songwriter, actress and vlogger/blogger. Smith was also one-half of the English-American alternative punk duo The Trending (formerly Civilized Tears). Smith was formerly referred to as Taylor Horn, Princess Bambi Monroe and Bambi Monroe briefly as stage names. She was once compared to fellow Kentwood native and singer Britney Spears by various media sources early on in her career; she was dubbed by English media as somewhat of a Britney wannabe or clone by the British media.

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Smith was born in San Bernardino, California. In the course of her singing career, Smith has transitioned from performing country-western music to bubblegum pop to alternative punk rock music. Smith is an occasional actress, having appeared in an unaired PBS made-for-TV movie and two music videos for the band Civilized Tears, which she shot before she joined the band. In addition to her music, Smith also filmed videos as a makeup guru, started a now defunct clothing line called Punklicious and worked as a baby photographer for a short time. She married Civilized Tears/The Trending founder Tim Bennett Smith in 2009 and joined the band in 2011. Smith and her husband retired from music after her second child was born in 2015.

Biography

Smith was born in San Bernardino, California in 1992 to mother Angelina Capps-Johnson and an unknown father (last name Horn). She has a younger half-brother; Joey Johnson. She later moved to Kentwood, Louisiana on her grandparents, Ronald and Lesley Jones' farm at the age of six. She took an interest in singing after being gifted with an old karaoke machine by her aunt. Smith began singing locally in nursing homes, fairs, festivals and beauty pageants. She began writing songs at the age of nine and recorded her first album, taylor-made, a cover album of mostly country-western songs, in 2002. taylor-made became a minor hit in Great Britain. By 2004, she had written a country music single "There’s Somethin’ Wrong Here" and had recorded it in Nashville. During the same year, Smith made her first national television appearance on Access Hollywood. In 2004, she made a small appearance on Access Hollywood and released her first self-written single titled "There's Somethin' Wrong Here". She also filmed for the unaired PBS television film Artists in the Forest'.

In 2005, Smith recorded her debut EP titled A Taylor Horn Christmas and made a brief appearance on Access Hollywood. Smith went on appear in the documentary Britney's Redneck Roots, a documentary aired in the United Kingdom, focusing on Britney Spears and the inhabitants of her hometown of Kentwood. Smith appeared alongside her grandmother Lesley and her then vocal coach, Bob Westbrook, Spears' former vocal coach. 2006 saw the first musical transition Smith made with her second album, Changes, a teen pop album. She and her grandmother Lesley Jones were detained for three hours in 2009 at John Lennon Airport while Monroe and Jones were traveling together from Nimes, France to the UK to visit friends and proceed with a promotional tour. Smith and her grandmother were later deported from the country. Smith's last solo recording before her name change was the charity single "Lily's Lullaby", a song she wrote and dedicated to a young girl living with cancer. She transitioned to punk rock and changed her name from Taylor Horn to Bambi Monroe in 2011, recording the EP, Rock is a Drug, showcasing her new transition. She appeared in the music videos "Unamerican" and "Anybody" for the band The Trending and later joined the band as a duo with English singer-songwriter Tim Bennett.

In addition to music, Smith also dabbled as a beauty vlogger and blogger, reviewing makeup products on YouTube and her makeup blog, BambiGirlBeauty. She was named ambassdor for Belleboo, a line of natural beauty products. Smith also wrote blogs for the website as a "Chatterchick".

Personal life

Smith met English singer-songwriter Tim Bennett Smith on a trip to England to a photo shoot with photographer Alan Strutt and later began dating him. She then married her husband on August 11, 2009.

Smith has three children with her husband: son Luca Benjamin Bennett; born April 14, 2014, daughter Bella Lina Rose; born June 11, 2015 and son Ezri Eden Bennett; born May 11, 2017. Smith is also stepmother to her husband's eldest daughter from a previous relationship; CoCo Smith.

Smith currently lives in Tennessee on an off grid farm with her family and is an independent distributor for Young Living's brand of essential oils. Smith and her family identify themselves as Christians.

Albums

  • taylor-made (2002) (as Taylor Horn)
  • Changes (2006) (as Taylor Horn)
  • EPs

  • A Taylor Horn Christmas (2005) (as Taylor Horn)
  • Rock is a Drug (2011) (as Bambi Monroe)
  • Solo singles

  • "There's Somethin' Wrong Here" (2004) (as Taylor Horn)
  • "Sunlight in Your Eyes" (2009) (as Taylor Horn)
  • "Lily's Lullaby" (2010) (as Taylor Horn)
  • "Tears in Your Eyes" (2010)
  • "Stars" (2014)
  • "Glitter Eyes" (2015)
  • References

    Bambi Monroe Wikipedia