Īmos first came to local notice by winning a county teen talent contest in 1977, singing a song called "More Than Just a Friend". At the age of 13 she began playing at gay bars and piano bars, chaperoned by her father. In 1972, the Amos family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, where her father became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave.
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By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. Amos has said that her maternal grandparents each had an Eastern Cherokee grandparent of their own of particular importance to her as a child was her maternal grandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, who was a great source of inspiration and guidance, offering a more pantheistic spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity. She was born at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina, during a trip from their Georgetown home in Washington, D.C. Īmos is the third child of Mary Ellen (Copeland) and the Rev. She has been nominated for and won several awards in different genres, ranging from MTV VMAs to classical music with an Echo award in 2012. Amos has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide.
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Some of her charting singles include " Crucify", " Silent All These Years", " God", " Cornflake Girl", " Caught a Lite Sneeze", " Professional Widow", " Spark", " 1000 Oceans", " Flavor", and " A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. She was also noteworthy early in her solo career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. She has since become one of the world's most prominent female singer-songwriters whose songs have discussed a broad range of topics including sexuality, feminism, politics and religion. Amos originally served as the lead singer of short-lived 1980s pop group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s. She was expelled at age eleven for, in her own words, insisting on playing by ear and because of her interest in popular rock music. 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 age five. She has received eight Grammy nominations. She is a classically trained musician and has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos Aug) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and composer. HIDDEN ERROR: Usage of "residence" is not recognized
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