Biography

Tori Amos was one of several female singer/songwriters who combined the stark lyrical attack of alternative rock with a distinctly '70s musical approach. Her music falls between the orchestrated meditations of Kate Bush and the stripped-down poetics of Joni Mitchell. In addition to reviving the singer/songwriter traditions of the '70s, Amos revived the piano as a rock & roll instrument. With her 1992 album [roviLink="MW"]Little Earthquakes, Amos built a dedicated following that continued to expand with subsequent albums. The daughter of a Methodist preacher, Amos began writing her own songs as a child and studied at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory. After becoming infatuated by rock & roll, particularly the music of Led Zeppelin, she began performing in local bars and later moved to Los Angeles. Signed to Atlantic in 1987, Amos debuted with an uninspired pop-metal album called [roviLink="MW"]Y Kant Tori Read. By 1990, Amos had adopted a new approach, singing spare, haunting semiconfessional piano ballads. [roviLink="MW"]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. Her second album, [roviLink="MW"]Under the Pink, was a bigger hit and launched the minor hit singles [roviLink="MC"]"God" and [roviLink="MC"]"Cornflake Girl." Two years later she released [roviLink="MW"]Boys for Pele, her most ambitious and difficult record to date. [roviLink="MW"]From the Choirgirl Hotel followed in 1998.

Top Tracks

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• 1,000 Oceans

• A Sorta Fairytale

• Almost Rosey

• Angels

• Big Wheel

• Bliss

• Body And Soul

• Cactus Practice

• Carry

• Cars And Guitars

• Caught A Lite Sneeze

• Cornflake Girl

• Crazy

• Crucify

• Doughnut Song

• Give

• God

• Home On The Range

• Hotel

• In The Springtime Of His Voodoo

• Job's Coffin

• Mary Jane

• Me And A Gun

• Mother

• Never Seen Blue

• New Age

• Not David Bowie

• Pancake

• Parasol

• Past The Mission

• Playboy Mommy

• Precious Things

• Pretty Good Year

• Professional Widow

• Raspberry Swirl

• Rattlesnakes

• Shattering Sea

• Silent All These Years

• Sleeps With Butterflies

• Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Snow Cherries From France

• Spark

• Strange Little Girl

• Sugar

• Take Me With You

• Take To The Sky

• Taxi Ride

• That Guy

• The Pool

• The Power Of Orange Knickers

• The Waitress

• Winter

• Yes, Anastasia

• Zero Point

Discography

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• Night of Hunters

  Deutsche Grammophon

  2011

• Abnormally Attracted to Sin

  Universal Republic

  2009

• Strange Little Girls

  Atlantic

  2001

• To Venus and Back

  Atlantic

  1999

• From the Choirgirl Hotel

  Atlantic

  1998

• Boys for Pele

  Atlantic

  1996

• Under the Pink

  Atlantic

  1994

• Little Earthquakes

  Atlantic

  1992