Tori Amos (August 22, 1963 - living) U.S.A. Musician Born, as Myra Ellen Amos, in North Carolina, USA, but raised in Maryland, Tori Amos was the daughter of a Methodist preacher. She began playing piano at age 2-and-a-half and was somewhat of a child prodigy. By age 5 she began writing her own songs. Tori was enrolled at Baltimore's Peabody Institute, but was denied a renewal of her scholarship when deciding to play her own pop songs instead of classical compilations before the school's examination board. By age 13, Tori Amos was playing in clubs in D.C. She finally decided to move to LA to pursue her dreams in 84', to become a pop singer. After Tori Amos's first venture into the music world, Y Kant Tori Read, failed, she moved to London to break her album in a smaller market. After much success in Britain, Tori Amos came back to the U.S. where she did well with Under the Pink. Since she has made many more successful albums and has ventured into many different types of music. The harrowing Me and a Gun was an autobiographical song, telling the tale of Amos' own experience with rape. It gained positive reviews throughout the media, and both the EP and the concerts sold well. Little Earthquakes, Amos' first album as a singer/songwriter, was released in late 1991 and sold well in both the U.S. and the U.K. In 1992, she released the Crucify EP. In early 1994, Under the Pink, the full-length follow-up to Little Earthquakes, was a bigger hit, selling over a million copies. Two years later, Amos delivered her third album, Boys for Pele, her most ambitious and difficult record to date. Amos spent much of 1997 dealing with personal matters, including a miscarriage and a marriage, and working on her fourth album, From the Choirgirl Hotel, which was released in the spring of 1998. The two-disc To Venus and Back followed in 1999 to coincide with a tour with Alanis Morissette. In 2001, Amos returned with the covers album Strange Little Girls, which also marked her last release for Atlantic. The next year, she found a new label home with Epic and followed up with Scarlet's Walk in October. Album Title: Boys for Pele Canadian Spring Caught a Lite Sneeze China Cornflake Girl Crucify Cruel Fairy Tales From the Choirgirl Hotel God Hey Jupiter EP In Conversation In the Springtime of His Voodoo Little Earthquakes Maximum Tori Me & A Gun Past the Mission Pretty Good Year Private Talks Professional Widow Raspberry Swirl Scarlet's Walk Silent All These Years Spark, Pt. 2 Spark/Do It Again/Cooling Spark/Purple People/Bachelorette Spirit in the Sky Star Profiles Strange Little Girls Tales of a Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection Talula, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 Tea with the Waitress To Venus and Back Under the Pink Under the Pink + More Pink Wild Horses Winter Y Kant Tori Read

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