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Tori Amos Wiki Biography

Myra Ellen Amos was born on the 22nd August 1963, in Newton, North Carolina USA, with a Cherokee (American Indian) background. She is a singer, pianist, songwriter as well as composer, all of which are the sources of Tori Amos; net worth. Tori rose to prominence as an alternative rock singer. She is a nominee of eight Grammy Awards and the winner of Q Award and Echo Klassik Award. Amos is an inductee into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. She has been active in the entertainment industry since 1979.

How much is Tori Amos; net worth? Under the latest estimations, her wealth is as much as $60 million.

She started playing the piano being two years old, and managed to create musical pieces at the age of five. She was educated at Peabody Conservatory of Music until the age of 11 and then dropped out because of her avid interest in rock music. Later, she continued playing in various bars under the guidance of her father. In 1977, she attracted public attention by winning a talent contest, and then she participated and won several other singing competitions, which encouraged her to found the music band called Y Kant Tori Read in 1986. After a few years they released their self=titled debut album, in 1988, unfortunately, the album was a commercial failure that led the band to break up. Tori then decided to pursue a solo career, which was a really great decision. Up to date, Amos has released 40 singles, 14 studio albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, eight video albums, five EPs and 12 soundtracks. The most successful studio albums have been “Little Earthquakes” (1992), “Under the Pink” (1994), “Boys for Pele” (1996), “From the Choirgirl Hotel” (1998), “To Venus and Back” (1999) and “Scarlet’s Walk” (2002). Up to date, Tori Amos has sold more than 12 million copies of albums around the world, which has added much to the overall size of her net worth.

Tori Amos is also well known for her concert tours, and she has been listed the 5th best touring act by Rolling Stone magazine. Starting in 1991, she has been seen in more than 1,000 shows, including organizing 13 tours as the headline act.

Moreover, the book “Piece by Piece” (2005) co-written by Tori Amos and Ann Powers contains the life story of Amos. In addition to this, Amos has become the main subject in many other books written by other authors, such as “Tori Amos: All These Years” (1996), “Tori Amos: Lyrics” (2001) and “Tori Amos: In the Studio” (2011).

Finally, the personal life of the singe: Amos married sound engineer Mark Hawley in 1998, and a few years later, she gave birth to their daughter. The family owns two residences one in Bude, Cornwall, England and the other in Sewall’s Point in Florida, Kinsale (County Cork), Ireland. Amos is a spokesperson for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, and is an active supporter of this organization.

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Tori Amos Quick Info

Tori Amos Trademarks

1. Eccentric personality
2. Mezzo-soprano vocals
3. Flame-red hair, couture outfits and expensive shoes

Tori Amos Quotes

• When your heart explodes/ is it deathly cold/ you must let the colors violate the/ blackness/ there is/ a Magic World Parallel/ so leave your/ Daily Hell/ Welcome to England he said/ welcome to my World…. you better bring your own sun/ sweet girl/ you gotta bring your own sun/ don’t you forget you gotta bring your own sun/ just enough for everyone.
• The Universities are amazing: every ear is whispered in, it’s almost like a womb.
• [songwriting] I kinda have all the aspects of my personality round one table for spaghetti.
• It’s ridiculous saying there’s only one true faith, it’s like saying there’s only one map to get you up the mountain. I want to see those other maps, man.
• When it comes to music a lot of people only have their radio. They don’t even know what’s out there it’s like cutting your own throat…. All that stuff “baby make it alright”, is not my style, I’m more graphic.
• I love reading. I’ll read the first sentence and if it makes sense to me I pick it up. I really like Joseph Campbell.
• [“Pancake” lyric] Seems in vogue to be a closet misogynist homophobe.
• There are people who will tell you that bad things only happen to bad people. That’s a lie.
• They squash the baby bird because their bird got squashed.
• You have to read visionaries to have visions.
• Do you know how hard it is for Artists to travel?
• The playground is the biggest war-zone in the world.
• It’s a very humbling experience. I can’t possess a song. The songs are like live entities for me. I have to put them out in the world, and it’s none of my business what relationships the songs form. As an artist, I have to make peace with that.
• It’s uncomfortable when I’m sitting down to a plate of spaghetti, when I’m having dinner and somebody wants to know all about the rape or all about “Professional Widow” and how I became an emotional vampire.
• [on the aftermath of the 9/11 attack] I feel like our leaders have hijacked America’s personality, and taken her to personality plastic surgery school. And they decided this is who she is.
• Only a few people should have a “greatest hits”. I’m not one of those people.
• I was supposed to be a concert pianist but I was more interested in what Stevie Wonder was doing.
• When someone asks me if I’ve found Jesus, I say, “Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana concert a couple of years ago.” It’s like, Jesus has got things to do, he’s got a ten o’clock. He’s not going to fix things for me, I have to fix things for myself, so I try and have a sense of humor about it and nobody finds my humor very amusing. We’ve just got to lighten up on the savior bit, folks. You know, get off the cross, we need the wood.
• It’s all about draining you of your passion. That’s what religion is about – cutting off the physical from the spiritual.
• Some people get baptized with sprinkles, well, I had my head down in the water for 25 years.
• Seven years I would turn in tapes to record companies; after seven years of rejection of my own music, I believed them when they said, “This girl-at-her-piano thing is never gonna happen . . . Get a band, do metal, do dance, do whatever” – and I did them all. I had my limit of how much rejection I could take. I didn’t believe in myself enough.
• If you can hang around till you’re 41 and not frighten people when you walk in the room, you’re O.K.
• Anyone can attend yoga, kabbalah classes, church, lectures by the ‘Dalai Lama’, yada, yada, yada – but can you be present for your life, and live with the way you treat other people?
• I think human beings are so much more capable of what they told us we’re capable of.
• Let’s be honest, religion has not supported women and men exploring all sorts of their sides, their unconscious. It has not been supportive of, you know, go into the places without shame, without blame, without judgment, and just let yourself really see what’s cooking in there.
• I run into Pentecostals all the time . . . a lot of them are my friends, and they say, “Tori, I hope you find Jesus.” I say, “How do you know I’m not having a margarita with Jesus tonight at 10 o’clock?”
• There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you’re trying to be like someone else, then there isn’t.
• I don’t know of anybody who’s gonna be fulfilled if they get hit by a bus. You have to surrender to that eternal need to be fulfilled.
• When I sleep I often have nightmares. I can already hear your readers saying, “I knew that. The way your songs sound you must really have horrible nightmares.”
• My nightmares are so bad, that I mostly reject it when my friends want to take me to a cinema to watch a horror movie. Then I say, “No, thank you. I will dream in a few hours.”
• God is, “Hey buddy, I think you need a babe. Sit down. And I just happen to be around.” The whole concept of God that our institutions have taught us, whatever it is, it’s not just Christianity but the whole rigmarole, to me isn’t what it truly is.
• [on growing up as a minister’s daughter] I was taught a belief system where there wasn’t really any room to discover my own belief system.
• I mean just ’cause you’re a piano player, I think people just have an idea of what that is. They’ve decided they kinda’ have you figured out.
• The whole Bible Belt banned me for “Crucify” because they thought I was being sacrilegious. They felt that it was detrimental material for their children and that it was blasphemous.
• I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
• [on her daughter] I didn’t want her looking and hearing me and thinking, “Oh my God, that’s a scary lady!”
• [on the piano] It plays me, really. I don’t play it. There is a surrender to what the instrument is capable of it and I try to listen to it.
• Great composers are collectors of ideas first.
• I’m beyond the fury of youth. I love young women who are angry. They’re wild mustangs. But if you don’t transcend that, you become a very disturbed 40-year-old.
• In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It’s hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn’t afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
• [about the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks on New York] Don’t you think it’s really important now that there’s a forum, that we’re talking about all sides of what happened September 11 and what led up to it? We need to do some research; we need to think about, Why is the world where it is? It’s so deep-rooted, if we really start looking, and we might not like what we find. But I think we have to, we have to ask the questions.
• [after breast-feeding her daughter for the first time] An ounce of breast milk is even more potent then the finest tequila.
• I just try to strip myself, peel myself like an onion. At different layers I discover stuff. I do it publicly, and if it helps to inspire somebody else, which inspires somebody else, we’re talking about a really exciting world here.
• If you call me an airy-faerie, new age, hippy waif, I will cut off your penis.
• The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on
• I’m too wacky for most weirdos, who am I to judge ?
• Stuff is the issue…
• 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.

Tori Amos Important Facts

• Wrote a song about the 9/11 Tragedy: “I can’t see New York”.
• Mother of Natashya Lórien Hawley.
• Continues to tour in support of her album “Scarlet’s Walk”. [August 2003]
• Release of her book, “Piece by Piece”. [2005]
• Touring solo (for the first time since 2001) in support of her new album “The Beekeeper” [April 2005]
• Preparing to release her 9th studio album “American Doll Posse” in May 2007 and follow with a world tour. [March 2007]
• Released her tenth studio album “Abnormally Attracted to Sin” on May 19th, 2009 with plans for a summer tour. [May 2009]
• Owns a home in Cork, Ireland.
• Is a fan of playwright Tennessee Williams.
• Good friend of Björk.
• Recorded the song “Past the Mission” in the Beverly Hills mansion where Sharon Tate was murdered.
• Ranked #77 on VH1’s 100 Sexiest Artists.
• 1st May 2007: Released her ninth studio album: “American Doll Posse”. It was written and produced by Tori at Martian Engineering in Cornwell, England, UK. The physical version was available in two different formats: the Standard Version and the Limited Edition CD/DVD Deluxe Version. The bonus DVD featured Behind The Scenes footage of the album photo shoot, an exclusive photo gallery, and the bonus track “My Posse Can Do”. The Limited Edition version also included five collectible postcards, and a full color thirty six page booklet. Purchases from select independent retailers in the US, also came with a free 11″x26″ Tori Amos lithograph.
• May 2007: Named Epic’s Jane Magazine’s Artist of the Month.
• Refers to her songs as “girls”.
• Was offered the part of Sarah in The Crow: City of Angels (1996), but refused because she did not like the character. In an interview, she attributed the refusal of the role to the fact that the character had poor choice of footwear.
• Tori has stated that two of her maternal great-great-grandparents were Cherokee Native American (though all of her maternal great-grandparents were listed as “White” on United States censuses). Tori often has Native American influences in her songs, esp. on the album “Scarlet’s Walk”, which includes the song “Wampum Prayer”, a tribute to Native Americans.
• She is famous for her skill to play covers of famous songs on the piano. Her first strike was the piano cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. At her concerts, there is always the Tori Amos Pianobar Moment, where she plays covers requested by her fans.
• Close friend of writer Neil Gaiman, who dedicated to her the character of “Delirium” in his comic saga “Sandman”.
• Lost her older brother, Michael Amos, in a tragic car accident in November of 2004.
• Is good friends with Trent Reznor, who sang the background vocals on her song “Past the Mission” from her album “Under The Pink”.
• Ranked #71 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
• Toured with Alanis Morissette in 1999.
• Has received 7 Grammy nominations, sold close to 20 million albums worldwide (despite recieving little, if any mainstream airplay) and according to VH1, is the 77th greatest woman in rock n’ roll history.
• Her husband is from England.
• Resides in Cornwall, England and West Palm Beach, Florida.
• Her father is Methodist minister Dr. Rev. Edison Amos of Rockville, Maryland. His commentary on the second amendment is featured in sound clips on her song “Happiness is a Warm Gun” (a Beatles cover).
• Born at 1:10 PM EDT
• She gave birth to a 7 pound, 1 ounce baby girl, named ‘Natashya Lorien’. [September 2000]
• Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1996]
• In high school, Tori was voted Homecoming Queen, Choir Flirt, and Most Likely To Suceed.

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