Tori Amos is tagged as: female vocalists, singer-songwriter, alternative, piano, rock
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer, songwriter, she is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley, with whom she has a child Natashya "Tash" Lorien Hawley born September 5, 2000
Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University the youngest person ever to have been admitted at the age of five, she was expelled at age eleven in her own words, insists on playing by ear and on the basis of her interest in popular rock music
Amos stood at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock artistsusing a piano as his primary instrument Honär known for his emotionally intense songs that cover a wide range of topics, including sexuality, religion and personal tragedy, some of her chart singles are "Crucify" Silent All These Years "Cornflake Girl" "Caught a little Sneeze "Professional Widow" "Spark" and "A Sorta Fairytale" her most commercially successful single in the U.S. so far
From 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide with a history of making eccentric and at times ribald comments during concerts... Read More About Tori Amos Biography...
