Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer‑songwriter and pianist. A classically trained musician with a mezzo‑soprano vocal range, she was recognized as a child prodigy and entered the Peabody Institute’s preparatory division at the age of five. She left the conservatory at eleven and later developed her performance style while playing in bars around Washington, D.C. In the late 1980s, Amos fronted the short‑lived pop‑rock group Y Kant Tori Read before establishing herself as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songwriting explores themes such as sexuality, feminism, politics and religion. Her charting singles include “Crucify”, “Silent All These Years”, “God”, “Cornflake Girl”, “Caught a Lite Sneeze”, “Professional Widow”, “Spark”, “1000 Oceans”, “Flavor” and “A Sorta Fairytale”. Amos has received five MTV Video Music Award nominations and nine Grammy Award nominations, and won an Echo Klassik award for her classical crossover album Night of Hunters. In 1999, she was ranked number 71 on VH1’s list of the “100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll”. Amos was born on August 22, 1963, at Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina, during her parents’ trip from their home in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. She is the third child of Mary Ellen (née Copeland) and Edison McKinley Amos, and was given the name Myra Ellen Amos at birth.
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God
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Bouncing off Clouds
Spark
Precious Things
Cornflake Girl
Crucify
Winter
A Sorta Fairytale
Silent All These Years
Professional Widow
Caught A Lite Sneeze
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