Ashley Smith

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

Smith was born in San Bernardino, California in 1992 to mother Angelina Capps-Johnson and an unknown father (last name Horn). Through her mother, she has a younger half-brother; Joey Johnson. After her parents separated, 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 then 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.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. She also went on appear in the documentary Britney's Redneck Roots, a documentary that 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, a former vocal coach of Spears. 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 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 was 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 and acting careers, 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 both retired from the entertainment industry after their second child was born and gave up music and acting.

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 and her family identify themselves as Christians.

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. Not long afterwards, she transitioned to punk rock and changed her name from Taylor Horn to Bambi Monroe in 2011, her last solo album project to date, the EP Rock is a Drug, showcasing her new transition to punk rock. She then changed her name yet again to Princess Bambi Monroe but has since dropped all her former stage names since retiring from music. She appeared in the music videos "Unamerican" and "Anybody" for the band Civilized Tears and later joined the band as a duo with English singer-songwriter Tim Bennett. In addition to singing in English, Smith could also sing in Spanish.

Smith and her husband Tim have four children: son Luca Benjamin Bennett; born April 14, 2014, daughter Bella Lina Rose; born June 11, 2015; son Ezri Eden Bennett; born May 11, 2017 and daughter Bindi Twyla Mirai; born August 1, 2019. Smith is also stepmother to her husband's eldest daughter from a previous relationship; CoCo Smith.

After the birth of her eldest daughter, Bella, in 2015, Smith and her husband decided to retire from music. She currently lives in Tennessee on an off grid homestead with her husband and children and is an independent distributor for Young Living's brand of essential oils and products.