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| Birth Name(s) : Myra Ellen Amos |
Date of Birth: August 22, 1963 |
| Status:
Married
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Partner:
Mark Hawley |
| Profession:
Actor/Musician |
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| At age one, Tori and her family moved to Baltimore, where she spent much of her childhood. She started playing piano at a very early age (2 1/2). At the age of five, she was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory (Arts school); she was the youngest person to be accepted to the school. However, she soon discovered that there were conflicts between her wants and those of the school. At age 11, she was kicked out. She eventually ended up in a rock band called Y Kan't Tori Read, who released an album in 1988. The album was a severe flop, and the band broke up shortly thereafter. Tori has been doing her solo gig ever since, known for her strong voice, eccentric lyrics, and (of course) her exceptional skill on the piano. |
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Additional Tori Amos Biography
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley. Together they have one daughter, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000.
Amos has sold over 12 million records worldwide and has also enjoyed a large cult following. Having a history of making eccentric and at times ribald comments during concerts and interviews, she has earned a reputation for being highly idiosyncratic.
Even before Amos was eighteen, she had been compared to Kate Bush in regard to singing style and other musical tendencies. However, at that time, Amos didn't even know who Bush was. Later on she would buy her first Kate Bush album and discover her music.
Although Amos often voices embarrassment concerning Y Kant Tori Read, she has performed various songs from the album live in concert. The album is now out of print and original copies are considered quite valuable.
The album was recorded in an Irish church, in County Wicklow, Ireland in 1995 as well as an old Georgian house, also in Ireland. After two albums of piano-driven pop rock music, Amos took advantage of the church recording setting to create an album ripe with baroque influences, lending it a darker sound and style. She added harpsichord, harmonium, and clavichord to her keyboard repertoire, and also included such anomalies as a gospel choir, bagpipes, church bells, and drum programming.
Also in 1996, Amos began her own vanity label called Igloo, internal to Atlantic Records. Her first signing (which she executively produced) was the band Pet, headed by lead singer Lisa Papineau. Their self-titled debut album included the song "Lil' Boots," which was also featured on the soundtrack for The Crow: City of Angels. Record sales were meager and the subsidiary label was quickly folded.
After having left Atlantic, Amos scored her biggest commercial success in five years with her Epic debut, Scarlet's Walk. However, she still owed Atlantic a retrospective hits package, and Amos elected to take a central role in the production of such a collection. In November 2003 Amos released Tales of a Librarian, which she called a "sonic autobiography", a title derived from her dislike of the term "greatest hits". Amos revisited the mixing of many of her own favourite songs from her career, focusing on those she thought were not fully realised in their original recordings and those that she felt explained her life story. Recording under the premise that a librarian is a "chronicler", Amos pieced together the album, adding two new songs and two re-recorded b-sides: "Angels", "Snow Cherries from France", "Sweet Dreams", and "Mary", respectively (the latter two compositions were originally recorded in 1990 during sessions for Little Earthquakes). Amos bypassed some of her more familiar hits such as "Pretty Good Year" and "Hey Jupiter" in favour of lesser-known songs such as "Way Down" and "Mr. Zebra", and also included the Armand van Helden remix of "Professional Widow" rather than the studio original. Nevertheless, the album was critically acclaimed, earning several five-star reviews.
The album also featured elaborate packaging, featuring a bonus DVD including a photo gallery and three live songs ("Honey", "Pretty Good Year", and "Northern Lad") recorded at the soundcheck of the final show on the "On Scarlet's Walk Tour" in September 2003 (the full concert was issued as Welcome to Sunny Florida). The songs were arranged in accordance with the Dewey Decimal System, extending the librarian theme of the album. Though the album charted at a lowly #40 in the US and #74 in the UK, making it her weakest-charting album to date, sales have evened out in the long-term.
The first release of the deal was the two-disc DVD set Fade To Red: The Video Collection in February 2006, which contained all but three of Amos's solo music videos ("Mary", "Glory of the 80s", "Strange Little Girl") as well as behind-the-scenes footage and commentary. The contract continued in September 2006 with the release of the career-spanning five-disc box set A Piano: The Collection, celebrating Amos's 15-year solo career. The set included various album songs, singles, remixes, alternate mixes, demos and a string of unreleased songs from album sessions, including "Take Me With You" (music recorded in 1990, with lyrics/vocals finished in 2006), "Walk to Dublin (Sucker Reprise)" (recorded in 1995 for Boys for Pele), "Ode to My Clothes" (recorded in 2001 in between takes for Strange Little Girls), "Peeping Tommi" (recorded in 1993 for Under the Pink), "Not David Bowie" (recorded in 2004 for The Beekeeper), "Dolphin Song" (recorded in 2003), and the much-mythologized "Zero Point" (recorded in 1999 for To Venus and Back), which Amos had mentioned in interviews as well as the liner notes to 1999's To Venus and Back. The collection is packaged to resemble a piano keyboard with extensive liner notes (including Amos commentary) and a hard-back book.
Amos followed the album's release with a new world tour beginning May 28th in Rome with full details published on her official website.
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| I know I'm an acquired taste: I'm anchovies. And not everyone wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go more places. |
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