Tori Amos: Biography in Details
Who is Tori Amos?
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. This hugely talented recording artist is a classically trained musician who is known in the music circuits for being one of the few alternative rock singers to use a piano as Tori Amos’ primary instrument.
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Tori Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina, the United States on August 22, 1963. Her birth name is Myra Ellen Amos and she is currently 56 years old. Her father’s name is Edison Amos and her mother’s name is Mary Ellen Amos.
By the age of 11, she had developed a taste for rock and pop music and refused to read sheet music. Following her expulsion, she began playing at gay bars and piano bars, chaperoned by her father.
Tori Amos has two siblings namely, Marie Amos Dobyns, and Mike Amos. Tori holds American citizenship and mixed (English- Scottish- Irish- French) ethnicity. Her birth sign is Leo.
Education, School/ College University
Talking about Tori’s education, she attended Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, MD. Then, she attended the Peabody Institute At Johns Hopkins University.
Tori Amos: Professional Life, Career
Talking about Tori Amos’s career history, in 1986, she established a music group known as ‘Y Kant Tori Read’, commemorating her days at the Peabody Conservatory. In the year 1988, the Y Kant Tori Read’s self-titled debut album was released. Then, after the album bombed, she began working as a backup vocalist for other leading artists.
Contractual obligation led her to record her breakthrough album ‘Little Earthquakes’, in 1992. In the year 1998, her album ‘From the Choirgirl Hotel’ was released; the album didn’t incorporate Amos’s trademark piano-based music. The debut sales exceeded 153,000 copies in its first week.
In 2001, to fulfill a contractual obligation with the record label ‘Atlantic’ she recorded songs written by men about women and reversed the gender roles to show a woman’s perspective. This resulted in the Grammy-nominated album ‘Strange Little Girls. The album allowed her to withhold new tracks, as she felt that the Atlantic had not promoted her adequately.
A year later, she released ‘Tales of a Librarian’, a retrospective collection. In the year 2005, in conjunction with the album ‘The Beekeeper’, Amos co-authored an autobiography titled, ‘Piece by Piece’ with rock music journalist Ann Powers.
In the year 2006, to celebrate her 15-year solo career, her record labels released a two-disc-DVD-set, ‘Fade to Red’, and a five-disc-box-set titled, ‘A Piano: The Collection’. They contained remastered album tracks, remixes, alternate mixes, demos, and a string of unreleased songs from album recording sessions.
In the year 2010, Tori Amos recorded vocals for ‘Fatboy Slim’ and released the highly exclusive live album, ‘From Russia With Love’. In 2011, she recorded her first classical music album, ‘Night of Hunters, a set of tributes to greats, such as Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Granados, Satie, and Schubert.
In 2012, Tori Amos released ‘Gold Dust’ and formed ‘Transmission Galactic’, her record label.
Awards, Nomination
Tori Amos was nominated for Best Song in a Documentary for Audrie & Daisy (2016) at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Award, she was nominated for Best Alternative Music Performance at Grammy Awards.
She was nominated for Best Original Song – Documentary for Audrie & Daisy (2016) at HMMA Award.
Tori Amos: Net Worth, Salary
Tori Amos has an estimated net worth of around $60 million (as per 2023 data) and she has earned that sum of money from her professional career.
Tori Amos: Rumors and Controversy
Tori Amos has kept herself far from rumors and controversies in her personal and professional life.
What are the body measurements of Tori Amos?
Tori Amos has a height of 5 feet 2 inches. Additionally, she weighs is 50Kg. In addition, she has a measurement of 36-28-34 inches and her bra size is 34B.
Tori’s hair color is red and her eye color is green. Furthermore, her dress size is 6 (US) and her shoe size is 7 (US).
Social Media
Being an American pianist, the singer-songwriter Tori has a huge fan following rate. She has been active on social sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Tori Amos has 7.6K followers on her Facebook. Around 110K followers on her Twitter, and she has around 100K followers on Instagram.
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Tori Amos's Anniversary Dates
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| 2024 | February | Thursday |
| 2025 | February | Saturday |
| 2026 | February | Sunday |
| 2027 | February | Monday |
| 2028 | February | Tuesday |
Tori Amos's Birthday Dates
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| 2024 | August | Thursday |
| 2025 | August | Friday |
| 2026 | August | Saturday |
| 2027 | August | Sunday |
| 2028 | August | Tuesday |
