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Tori Amos was born Myra Ellen Amos on August 23, 1963 in Newton, North
Carolina USA and raised in Maryland; she began playing the piano aged
two and a half and by the age of four, she was singing and playing piano
in the church choir; Amos while attending high school in Washington D.C.
started performing in local clubs and writing own material; in 1980 under
the real name of Ellen Amos recorded her first single.
During the following years she persevered in writing her own songs playing
music along with ex-Mr. Mister Steve
Farris, Matt Sorum future drummer for The Cult
and Guns N' Roses, ex-Poco Kim Bullard
and other artists, in the meantime, Tori Amos, refashioned herself as
Pop-Rock singer+songwriter and scored a deal with Atlantic Records.
In October 1991 appeared her first 4-track EP "Me And A Gun"
and at the start of the new year was released the official debut full-length
disc, "Little Earthquakes", the record reached the #54 on The
Billboard Top 200 Albums chart spawning two Modern Rock top 30 hits: "Crucify"
and "Silent All These Years".
She resurfaced in February of 1994 with the release of "Under The
Pink", on which Trent Reznor of Nine
Inch Nails made a guest appearance, this album hit #1 in the U.K.
chart and debuted at #12 on The Billboard Top 200 in the States where
the single "God" rose to #1 on Modern Rock chart; "Cornflake
Girl", exploded on the radio and became a staple for European stations
reaching the #4 in U.K. Singles chart and peaked at #12 on Billboard's
Modern Rock chart propelling the album to platinum sales in the United
States; the final single, "Pretty Good Year", was another huge
hit in Britain where ranked in the top 10 of the National chart.
In 1995 she duetted with Robert Plant,
on the song "Down By The Seaside", it can be found on the Led
Zeppelin tribute album 'Encomium'.
Amos' third album, "Boys For Pele", released with a two years
gap between it and its predecessor, peaked at #2 in U.S. Top 200 chart
spawning "Caught A Lite Sneeze" which reached the #13 on The
Modern Rock Tracks chart and the British #1 smash "Professional Widow";
the record also included the single "In The Springtime Of His Voodoo"
which was a huge club success.
In May of 1998 appeared her fourth full-length album, "From The Choirgirl
Hotel", the record entered the top 10 on both U.S. and Canadian Pop
charts while "Spark" hit #49 on The Billboard Hot 100 becoming
her highest charting single to date, this track also reached the #13 on
Modern Rock chart and was followed by the Billboard's Hot Dance smash
"Jackie's Strength" plus the Canadian top 20 hit "Raspberry
Swirl".
Following the 1999's "Five And A Half Weeks" tour with Alanis
Morissette, Tori Amos released a double-CD set called "To Venus
And Back" which included a disc of all live tracks as well as a disc
of new material; the collection rose to #12 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums
list and generated the minor hit single "Bliss".
She returned two years later with an album of cover versions of songs
written by men about women entitled "Strange Little Girls",
the record broke into the top 10 of the North-American charts and reached
the top 20 in Britain.
In late October of 2002 the singer released her seventh album and the
first on Epic Records, "Scarlet's Walk" peaked at #7 on The
Billboard Top 200 chart spawning a series of hit singles: "Sort Of
Fairytale" was a top 10 in Canada and received strong airplay on
adult contemporary stations Stateside, "Taxi Ride" was a minor
success and the third single cut, "Don't Make Me Come To Vegas",
made top 10 on Billboard's Hot Dance chart.
The next year appeared the greatest hits album, "Tales Of A Librarian".
Tori Amos released an album of all-new-material for Epic/Sony called "The
Beekeeper" in February 2005; the first single off the CD was "Sleeps
With Butterflies".
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