[1] Three of the founding members, Ezekiel, Amos Def, and Hezekiah X moved to New York City after leaving the Amish community.

They originally began playing in a band for fun and eventually decided to become The Amish Outlaws to make a living from it.

[4] The band wanted to play popular culture rock music that was not typical of their traditional Amish upbringing.

The band plays renditions of songs by contemporary composers and talk about their rumspringa experience as ex-members of the Amish community.

The band members are known for their movement style where they, in the words of writer Simon J. Bronner, "frenetically jump and gyrate on stage in Amish garb.

[10] The band performs songs across several genres including pop, rock, rhythm and blues, reggae, dance, country, and heavy metal.

He was also in multiple episodes of Law & Order, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and such movies as School of Rock, Men in Black II, Spider-Man 2, The Guru, and Across the Universe.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band[6] and The Wall, Ezekiel reported that "hearing those two albums for the first time really got me into music."

[6] The Atlantic City Weekly reported that Hezekiah "had been fantasizing about performing music since he was young, took that big chance leaving family, friends and a way of life behind and he couldn't be happier about it.

[6] Authors Donald Kraybill, Karen Johnson-Weiner, and Steven Nolt wrote in their book, The Amish, that some youth members of the community rebel and participate in "activities that are offensive to their birthright culture."