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Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Background information

Birth name Myra Ellen Amos

Born August 22, 1963, Newton, North Carolina, United States

Genres Alternative rockBaroque popElectronicaPiano rock

Occupations Musician, vocalist, songwriter, record producer

Instruments Piano, harpsichord, clavichord, Hammond organ, harmonium, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Kurzweil, clavinet, vocals

Years active 1986–present

Labels Atlantic (1988–2001)Epic (2002–2008)Universal Republic (2009–present)

Website toriamos.com [1]

everythingtori.com [2]

Notable instruments

Bösendorfer piano[3]

Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She was at theforefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as oneof the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include"Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow","Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date.[4]

As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide.[5]

Early lifeAmos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, whereshe began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living inRockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory ofMusic.[6] Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost thescholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheetmusic.[6] At the age of 14 she began playing at piano bars, chaperoned by her father.[6]

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Amos first came to local notice by winning a county teen talent contest in 1977, singing a song called "More ThanJust a Friend". As a senior at Richard Montgomery High School, she co-wrote "Baltimore" with her brother MikeAmos for a competition involving the Baltimore Orioles. The song won the contest and became her first single,released as a 7" single pressed locally for family and friends during 1980 with another Amos-penned composition asa B-side, "Walking With You". Prior to this period she performed under her middle name, Ellen, but permanentlyadopted Tori after a friend's boyfriend told her it suited her.[7] At age 21, Amos moved to Los Angeles to pursue hermusic career after several years performing on the piano bar circuit of the D.C. area.[8]

Atlantic years (1986–2001)

Y Kant Tori ReadIn 1986, Amos formed a music group, Y Kant Tori Read, the name of which was a reference to her days at thePeabody Conservatory, where she was able to play songs on her piano by ear, but was never successful at sightreading.[9] In addition to Amos, the group was composed of Steve Caton (who would later play guitars on all hersubsequent albums until 1999), drummer Matt Sorum, bass player Brad Cobb and, for a short time, keyboardist JimTauber. Following several phases of writing and recording, during which Amos has since asserted that the band losttheir musical edge and direction due to interference from record executives, in July 1988, the Y Kant Tori Read'sself-titled debut album was released. Although its producer, Joe Chiccarelli, has stated that Amos was very happywith the album at the time,[10] it is now out of print and Amos has expressed no interest in reissuing it.[11] Followingthe album's commercial failure and the group's subsequent disbanding, Amos began working with other artists(including Stan Ridgway, Sandra Bernhard, and Al Stewart) as a backup vocalist. She also recorded a song called"Distant Storm" for the film China O'Brien; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called Tess MakesGood.[12] It was the only song recorded by the band, and its only commercial release was in the film.

Solo careerDespite the disappointing reaction to Y Kant Tori Read, Amos still had to comply with her six record contract withAtlantic Records, who in 1989 wanted a new record by March 1990. The initial recordings were declined by thelabel, which Amos felt was because the album had not been properly presented.[13] The album was reworked andexpanded under the guidance of Doug Morris and the musical talents of Steve Caton, Eric Rosse, Will MacGregor,Carlo Nuccio, and Dan Nebenzal, resulting in Little Earthquakes, an album recounting her religious upbringing,sexual awakening, struggle to establish her identity, and sexual assault.Amos traveled to New Mexico with personal and professional partner Eric Rosse in 1993 to write and largely recordher second solo record, Under the Pink. The album was received with mostly favorable reviews and sold enoughcopies to chart at #12 on the Billboard 200, a significantly higher position than the preceding album's position at #54on the same chart.[14]

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Amos performing on her Dew Drop Inn tour in1996.

Her third solo album, Boys for Pele, was released in January 1996. Thealbum was recorded in an Irish church, in Delgany, County Wicklow,with Amos taking advantage of the church recording setting to createan album ripe with baroque influences, lending it a darker sound andstyle. She added harpsichord, harmonium, and clavichord to herkeyboard repertoire, and also included such anomalies as a gospelchoir, bagpipes, church bells, and drum programming. The albumgarnered mixed reviews upon its release, with some critics praising itsintensity and uniqueness while others bemoaned its comparativeimpenetrability. Despite the album's erratic lyrical content andinstrumentation, the latter of which kept it away from mainstreamaudiences, Boys for Pele is Amos's most successful simultaneoustransatlantic release, reaching #2 on both the Billboard 200 and the UKTop 40 upon its release at the height of her fame.[15] [16]

Fueled by the desire to have her own recording studio to distanceherself from record company executives,[17] Amos had the barn of herhome in Cornwall converted into a state-of-the-art recording studio,Martian Engineering Studios. Amos enlisted principal band matesSteve Caton on guitars, Jon Evans on bass, and Matt Chamberlain on drums, with whom Amos would record hernext two studio albums and embark on world tours.

From the Choirgirl Hotel and To Venus and Back, released in May 1998 and September 1999, respectively, differgreatly from previous albums as Amos's trademark acoustic piano-based sound is largely replaced with arrangementsthat include elements of electronica, dance music, vocal washes and sonic landscapes. The underlying themes of bothalbums deal with womanhood, and Amos's own miscarriages and marriage. Reviews for From the Choirgirl Hotelwere mostly favorable and praised Amos's continued artistic originality. While not her highest chart debut, debutsales for From the Choirgirl Hotel are Amos's best to date, selling 153,000 copies in its first week.[18] To Venus andBack, a two-disc release of original studio material and live material recorded from the previous world tour, receivedmostly positive reviews and included the first major-label single available for sale as a digital download.[19]

Motherhood inspired Amos to produce a cover album, recording songs written by men about women and reversingthe gender roles to show a woman's perspective.[20] That idea grew into Strange Little Girls, released in September2001, one year after giving birth to her daughter. The album is Amos's first concept album, with artwork featuringAmos photographed in character of the women portrayed in each song. Amos would later reveal that a stimulus forthe album was to end her contract with Atlantic without giving them new original songs; Amos felt that since 1998,the label had not been properly promoting her and had trapped her in a contract by refusing to sell her to anotherlabel.[21]

Epic Records years (2002–07)With her Atlantic contract fulfilled after a 15-year stint, Amos signed to Epic in late 2001. In October 2002, Amosreleased Scarlet's Walk, another concept album. Described as a "sonic novel", the album explores Amos's alter ego,Scarlet, intertwined with her cross-country concert tour following 9/11. Through the songs, Amos explores suchtopics as the history of America, American people, Native American history, pornography, masochism, homophobiaand misogyny. The album had a strong debut,[22] [23] demonstrating that Amos' fan base remained intact through thelabel change. However, Scarlet's Walk is Amos' last album to date to reach certified gold status.[24]

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Amos in concert in 2007.

Not long after Amos was ensconced with her new label, she receivedunsettling news when Polly Anthony resigned as president of EpicRecords in 2003. Anthony had been one of the primary reasons Amossigned with the label and as a result of her resignation, Amos formedthe Bridge Entertainment Group. Further trouble for Amos occurredthe following year when her label, Epic/Sony Music Entertainment,merged with BMG Entertainment as a result of the industry'sdecline.[25] Amos would later hint in interviews that during thecreation of her next album, those in charge at the label following theaforementioned merger were interested "only in making money", theeffects of which on the album have not been disclosed.

Amos released two more albums with the label, The Beekeeper (2005)and American Doll Posse (2007). Both albums received mixedreviews, some of which stated that the albums suffered from being toolong.[26] [27] The Beekeeper was conceptually influenced by the ancientart of beekeeping, which she considered a source of female inspirationand empowerment. Through extensive study, Amos also wove in thestories of the Gnostic gospels and the removal of women from a position of power within the Christian church tocreate an album based largely on religion and politics. The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200,[28] placing herin an elite group of women who have secured five or more US Top 10 album debuts.[29] American Doll Posse,another concept album, was fashioned around a group of girls (the "posse") who are used as a theme of alter-egos ofAmos's. Musically and stylistically, the album saw Amos return to a more confrontational nature.[30] Like itspredecessor, American Doll Posse debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200.[14]

During her tenure with Epic Records, Amos also released a retrospective collection titled Tales of a Librarian (2003)through her former label, Atlantic Records; a two-disc DVD set Fade to Red (2006) containing most of Amos's solomusic videos, released through the Warner Bros. reissue imprint Rhino; a five disc box set titled A Piano: TheCollection (2006), celebrating Amos's 15 year solo career through remastered album tracks, remixes, alternate mixes,demos, and a string of unreleased songs from album recording sessions, also released through Rhino; and numerousofficial bootlegs from two world tours, The Original Bootlegs (2005) and Legs & Boots (2007) through EpicRecords.

Universal Republic years (2008–present)In May 2008, Amos announced that, due to creative and financial disagreements with Epic Records, she hadnegotiated an end to her contract with the record label, and would be operating independently of major record labelson future work.[31] [32] In September of the same year, Amos released a live album and DVD, Live at Montreux1991/1992, through Eagle Rock Entertainment, of two performances she gave at the Montreux Jazz Festival veryearly on in her career while promoting her debut solo-album, Little Earthquakes. By December, after a chanceencounter with chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris, Amos signed a "joint venture" dealUniversal Republic Records.[33] [34] [35] [36]

Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Amos's tenth solo studio-album and her first album released through UniversalRepublic, was released in May 2009 to mostly positive reviews. The album debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard200,[37] making it the Amos' seventh album to do so.[38] Abnormally Attracted to Sin, admitted Amos, was a"personal album", not a conceptual one.[39] Continuing her distribution deal with Universal Republic, Amos releasedMidwinter Graces, her first seasonal album, in November of the same year. The album features reworked versions oftraditional carols, as well as original songs written by Amos.[40]

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During her contract with the label, Amos recorded vocals for two songs for David Byrne's collaboration album withFatboy Slim, entitled Here Lies Love,[41] which was released in April 2010. In July of the same year, the DVD ToriAmos- Live from the Artists Den was released exclusively through Barnes & Noble.After a brief tour from June to September 2010, Amos released the highly exclusive live album "From Russia WithLove" in December the same year, recorded live in Moscow on 03 September 2010. The limited edition set includeda signature edition Lomography Diana F+ camera, along with 2 lenses, a roll of film and 1 of 5 photographs taken ofTori during her time in Moscow. The set was released exclusively through toriamos.com and only 2000 wereproduced. It is currently unknown as to whether the album will receive a mass release.Currently, Amos is writing the music for Samuel Adamson's musical adaptation of the George MacDonald story TheLight Princess for the Royal National Theatre, which is expected to debut in 2012, as well as on her own newproject.

DiscographyTo date, Amos has released eleven studio albums throughout her solo career, nine of which were self-produced.• Little Earthquakes (1992)• Under The Pink (1994)• Boys For Pele (1996)• From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998)• To Venus and Back (1999)• Strange Little Girls (2001)• Scarlet's Walk (2002)• The Beekeeper (2005)• American Doll Posse (2007)• Abnormally Attracted to Sin (2009)• Midwinter Graces (2009)Additionally, Amos has released over 30 singles, over 60 B-sides, and has contributed to nine film soundtracks,including Higher Learning (1995), Great Expectations (1998) and Mission: Impossible II (2000) among others.

ToursAmos, who has been performing in bars and clubs from as early as 1976 and under her professional name as early as1991, remains one of the most active touring artists in the world, having performed more than 1,000 shows since herfirst world tour in 1992. In 2003, Amos was voted fifth best touring act by the readers of Rolling Stone magazine.Her concerts are notable for their changing set lists from night to night.Little Earthquakes Tour

Amos's first world tour began on January 29, 1992 in London and ended on November 30, 1992 in Auckland.She performed solo with a Yamaha CP-70 unless the venue was able to provide a piano.[42] [43] The tourincluded 142 concerts around the globe.

Under the Pink Tour

Amos's second world tour began on February 24, 1994 in Newcastle upon Tyne and ended on December 13,1994 in Perth, Western Australia. Amos performed solo each night on her iconic Bösendorfer piano, and on apianino during "Bells for Her". The tour included 181 concerts.

Dew Drop Inn Tour

The third world tour began on February 23, 1996 in Ipswich, England, and ended on November 11, 1996 in Boulder. Amos performed each night on piano, harpsichord, and harmonium, with Steve Caton on guitar on

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some songs. The tour included 187 concerts.Plugged '98 Tour

Amos's first band tour. Amos, on piano and Kurzweil keyboard, was joined by Steve Caton on guitar, MattChamberlain on drums, and Jon Evans on bass. The tour began on April 18, 1998 in Fort Lauderdale andended on December 3, 1998 in East Lansing, Michigan, including 137 concerts.

Five and a Half Weeks Tour / To Dallas and Back

Amos's fifth tour was North America–only. The first part of the tour was co-headlining with Alanis Morissetteand featured the same band and equipment line-up as in 1998. Amos and the band continued for eight showsbefore Amos embarked on a series of solo shows. The tour began on August 18, 1999 in Fort Lauderdale,Florida and ended on December 9, 1999 in Denver, including 46 concerts.

Strange Little Tour

This tour was Amos's first since becoming a mother in 2000 and her first tour fully solo since 1994 (SteveCaton was present on some songs in 1996). It saw Amos perform on piano, Rhodes piano, and Wurlitzerelectric piano, and though the tour was in support of her covers album, the set lists were not strictlycovers-oriented. Having brought her one-year-old daughter on the road with her, this tour was also one ofAmos's shortest ventures, lasting just three months. It began on August 30, 2001 in London and ended onDecember 17, 2001 in Milan, including 55 concerts.

On Scarlet's Walk / Lottapianos Tour

Amos's seventh tour saw her reunited with Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans, but not Steve Caton. The firstpart of the tour, which featured Amos on piano, Rhodes, and Wurlitzer, was six months long and Amos wentout again in the summer of 2003 for a tour with Ben Folds opening. The tour began on November 7, 2002 inTampa and ended on September 4, 2003 in West Palm Beach, featuring 124 concerts. The final show of thetour was filmed and released as part of a DVD/CD set titled Welcome to Sunny Florida (the set also included astudio EP titled Scarlet's Hidden Treasures, an extension of the Scarlet's Walk album).

Original Sinsuality Tour / Summer of Sin

This tour began on April 1, 2005 in Clearwater, Florida, with Amos on piano, two Hammond B-3 organs, andRhodes. The tour also encompassed Australia for the first time since 1994. Amos announced at a concert onthis tour that she would never stop touring but would scale down the tours. Amos returned to the road inAugust and September for the Summer of Sin North America leg, ending on September 17, 2005 in LosAngeles. The tour featured "Tori's Piano Bar", where fans could nominate cover songs on Amos's websitewhich she would then choose from to play in a special section of each show. One of the songs chosen was theKylie Minogue hit "Can't Get You Out of My Head", which Amos dedicated to her the day after Minogue'sbreast cancer was announced to the public. Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors' "People areStrange", Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus", Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game", Madonna's "Live to Tell" and"Like a Prayer", Björk's "Hyperballad", Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" (which she debuted inAustin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina), Kate Bush's "And Dream of Sheep" and CrowdedHouse's "Don't Dream It's Over", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before. The entireconcert tour featured 82 concerts, and six full-length concerts were released as The Original Bootlegs.

American Doll Posse World Tour

This was Amos's first tour with a full band since her 1999 Five and a Half Weeks Tour, accompanied by long-time band mates Jon Evans and Matt Chamberlain, with guitarist Dan Phelps rounding out Amos's new band.[44] Amos's equipment included her piano, a Hammond B-3 organ, and two Yamaha S90 ES keyboards. The tour kicked off with its European leg in Rome, Italy on May 28, 2007, which lasted through July, concluding in Israel; the Australian leg took place during September; the North American leg lasted from October to December 16, 2007, when the tour concluded in Los Angeles. Amos opened each show dressed as

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one of the four non-Tori personae from the album, then Amos would emerge as herself to perform for theremaining two-thirds of the show. The entire concert tour featured 93 concerts, and 27 full-length concerts ofthe North American tour were released as official bootlegs in the Legs and Boots series.

Sinful Attraction Tour

For her tenth tour, Amos returned to the trio format of her 2002 and 2003 tours with bassist Jon Evans anddrummer Matt Chamberlain while expanding her lineup of keyboards by adding three M-Audio MIDIcontrollers to her ensemble of her piano, a Hammond B-3 organ, and a Yamaha S90 ES keyboard. The NorthAmerican and European band tour began on 10 July 2009 in Seattle, Washington and ended in Warsaw on 10October 2009. A solo leg through Australia began in Melbourne on 12 November 2009 and ended in Brisbaneon 24 November 2009. The entire tour featured 63 concerts.

Award nominations

Group Year Award Work Result

MTV VMAs 1992 Best Female Video "Silent All These Years" Nominated

Best Cinematography in a Video Nominated

Best New Artist In a Video Nominated

Breakthrough Video Nominated

Grammy Awards 1995 Best Alternative Music Album Under The Pink Nominated

1997 Best Alternative Music Album Boys for Pele Nominated

1999 Best Alternative Music Album From the Choirgirl Hotel Nominated

Female Rock Vocal Performance "Raspberry Swirl" Nominated

2000 Best Alternative Music Album To Venus and Back Nominated

Female Rock Vocal Performance "Bliss" Nominated

2002 Best Alternative Music Album Strange Little Girls Nominated

Female Rock Vocal Performance "Strange Little Girl" Nominated

2003 Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Packaging Scarlet's Walk (deluxe edition) Nominated

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical "Timo on Tori (Don't Make Me Come to Vegas)" Nominated

In printReleased in conjunction with The Beekeeper, Amos co-authored an autobiography with rock music journalist AnnPowers entitled Piece by Piece (2005). The book's subject is Amos's interest in mythology and religion, exploringher songwriting process, rise to fame, and her relationship with Atlantic Records.Image Comics released Comic Book Tattoo (2008), a collection of comic stories, each based on or inspired by songsrecorded by Amos. Editor Rantz Hoseley worked with Amos to gather 80 different artists for the book, including PiaGuerra, David Mack, and Leah Moore.Other publications include Tori Amos: Lyrics (2001) and an earlier biography, Tori Amos: All These Years (1996).Additionally, Amos and her music have been the subject of numerous official and unofficial books, as well asacademic criticism.[45] [46] [47]

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Personal lifeAmos is the third child of Rev. Dr. Edison and Mary Ellen Amos. She was born at the Old Catawba Hospital inNewton, North Carolina, during a trip from their Georgetown home in Washington, D.C.. Her maternal grandparentswere of mixed European and Eastern Cherokee ancestry; of particular importance to her as a child was hergrandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, who was a great source of inspiration and guidance to her as a young child,offering a more pantheistic spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity.[48]

Early in her professional career, Amos befriended author Neil Gaiman, who became a fan after she referenced him inthe song "Tear In Your Hand" and also in print interviews.[49] Although created before the two met, the characterDelirium from Gaiman's The Sandman series (or even her sister Death) is inspired by Amos; Gaiman has stated that"they steal shamelessly from each other".[50] She wrote the foreword to his collection Death: The High Cost ofLiving; he in turn wrote the introduction to Comic Book Tattoo. Gaiman is godfather to her daughter and a poemwritten for her birth, Blueberry Girl, was published as a children's book of the same name in 2009.[51]

In June 1994, Amos co-founded RAINN, The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, a toll-free help line in theUS connecting callers with their local rape crisis center. Amos, herself a survivor of sexual assault,[52] was seen asunlocking the silence of her assault through her music; thus "Unlock the Silence" went on to become a year-longcampaign for RAINN when Amos became a national spokesperson for the organization. By the summer of 2006,RAINN had received its one millionth caller[53] and the organization's success has led to it ranking in "America's 100Best Charities" by Worth, and one of the "Top 10 Best Charities" by Marie Claire.Amos married English sound engineer Mark Hawley on February 22, 1998. Their only child, a daughter namedNatashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, was born on September 5, 2000. They divide their time between Sewall's Point inFlorida and Cornwall in England.

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pg=PT70). Omnibus Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-7119-4827-3. . Retrieved March 25, 2010.[4] McNair, James (2003-11-21). "Tori Amos: Fairy-tale endings" (http:/ / www. independent. co. uk/ arts-entertainment/ music/ features/

tori-amos-fairytale-endings-737451. html). The Independent (London). . Retrieved 2009-02-16.[5] "Piece By Piece Press Release" (http:/ / everythingtori. com/ go/ book/ ). . Retrieved 2007-10-08.[6] Amos, Tori and Ann Powers (2005). Piece by Piece. New York: Broadway Books. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-0-7679-1677-6.[7] Rogers, Kalen (1994). Tori Amos All These Years: The Authorized Biography. Omnibus. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-8256-1448-4.[8] "Tori Amos on Love Affair With the Piano" (http:/ / abcnews. go. com/ Nightline/ Playlist/ tori-amos-reinvents-christmas-carols-album/

story?id=9372307& page=1). ABC News. . Retrieved 2009-12-18.[9] David Wallechinsky & Amy Wallace: The New Book of Lists. Canongate, 2005. ISBN 978-1-84195-719-7.[10] "Interview with Joe Chiccarelli" (http:/ / www. hitquarters. com/ index. php3?page=intrview/ opar/ intrview_Joe_Chiccarelli_Interview.

html). HitQuarters. 14 June 2010. . Retrieved Aug 17, 2010.[11] "Y Kant Tori Read quotes at hereinmyhead.com" (http:/ / www. hereinmyhead. com/ collect/ yktr/ index. html). . Retrieved 2008-04-09.[12] "Soundtracks for China O'Brien at imdb.com" (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0099260/ soundtrack). Internet Movie Database. . Retrieved

2008-04-09.[13] "Tori Amos' Track-by-Track Guide to "Little Earthquakes"" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ news/ story/ 31444342/

tori_amos_trackbytrack_guide_to_little_earthquakes/ 3). Rolling Stone. . Retrieved 2009-12-19.[14] "Tori Amos — Artist Chart History" (http:/ / www. billboard. com/ bbcom/ retrieve_chart_history. do?model.

chartFormatGroupName=Albums& model. vnuArtistId=19023& model. vnuAlbumId=1173664). Billboard. . Retrieved 2009-05-07.[15] "The Billboard 200 - Chart Listing For The Week Of Feb 10 1996" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20071222042612/ http:/ / www.

billboard. com/ bbcom/ esearch/ chart_display. jsp?cfi=305& cfgn=Albums& cfn=The+ Billboard+ 200& ci=3022502& cdi=7026852&cid=02/ 10/ 1996). Billboard. Archived from the original (http:/ / www. billboard. com/ bbcom/ esearch/ chart_display. jsp?cfi=305&cfgn=Albums& cfn=The+ Billboard+ 200& ci=3022502& cdi=7026852& cid=02/ 10/ 1996) on 2007-12-22. . Retrieved 2008-03-15.

[16] "everyhit.com" (http:/ / www. everyhit. com). . Retrieved 2008-03-15.[17] "Tori Amos — Inside her Martian Engineering Studio" (http:/ / www. soundonsound. com/ sos/ feb07/ articles/ toriamos. htm).

SoundOnSound.com. . Retrieved 2008-05-26.

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[19] Ehrlich, Dimitri (1999-12-01). "Music's Digital Democracy". Interview.[20] "Tori Amos Says Eminem's Fictional Dead Wife Spoke To Her" (http:/ / www. mtv. com/ news/ articles/ 1449422/ 20010928/ story. jhtml).

MTV. . Retrieved 2009-12-19.[21] Amos, Tori; Powers, Ann (2005). Tori Amos: Piece by Piece. New York: Broadway Books. pp. 314–315. ISBN 978-0-7679-1677-6.[22] "Chart Beat Bonus" (http:/ / www. billboard. com/ bbcom/ search/ google/ article_display. jsp?vnu_content_id=1757676). 2002-11-08. .

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of America. . Retrieved 2010-07-25. Note: User must define search parameters, i.e. "Tori Amos".[25] "The Record Industry's Decline" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ news/ story/ 15137581/ the_record_industrys_decline/ 2). Rolling Stone. .

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index. php/ 2007/ 03/ 28/ tori_amos_to_release_new_album_american__2007). . Retrieved 2008-08-10.[30] The interview with Paul Tingen regarding American Doll Posse can be found here (http:/ / www. tingen. org/ toriamos07. htm)[31] "Ask Billboard — TORI AMOS GETS GRAPHIC" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20080701053253/ http:/ / www. billboard. com/ bbcom/

ask_bb/ article_display. jsp?vnu_content_id=1003810247). Billboard. Archived from the original (http:/ / www. billboard. com/ bbcom/ask_bb/ article_display. jsp?vnu_content_id=1003810247) on 2008-07-01. . Retrieved 2008-05-31.

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[33] "Tori Signs With Universal Republic Records For Upcoming 2009 Album" (http:/ / undented. com/ news/ 1554/tori-signs-with-universal-republic-records-for-upcoming-2009-album). Undented.com. . Retrieved 2008-12-02.

[34] "Tori Amos Inks New Deal, Eyes Spring/Summer Release" (http:/ / www. spinner. com/ 2008/ 12/ 04/tori-amos-inks-new-deal-eyeing-spring-summer-release/ ). spinner.com. . Retrieved 2008-12-04.

[35] "Girls on Film: An Interview with Tori Amos" (http:/ / www. americansongwriter. com/ 2009/ 05/girls-on-film-an-interview-with-tori-amos/ ). American Songwriter. 2009-05-15. . Retrieved 2009-10-14.

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External links• Official website (http:/ / www. toriamos. com/ )• Tori Amos discography (http:/ / musicbrainz. org/ artist/ c0b2500e-0cef-4130-869d-732b23ed9df5. html) at

MusicBrainz• Tori Amos (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ name/ nm0002169/ ) at the Internet Movie Database• Synthesis.net April 2007 podcast interview (http:/ / synthesisradio. net/ 2007/ 04/ 27/ tori-amos-april-2007/ )• Tori Amos on Synthesis.net (http:/ / www. synthesis. net/ music/ bands_and_artists/ tag/ 1024/ tori_amos)• Allmusic entry for Tori Amos (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=Bnqq8b5t4tsqj)• Tori Amos on Virb.com (http:/ / www. virb. com/ toriamos/ )• Tori Amos on Advocate.com (http:/ / advocate. com/ Arts_and_Entertainment/ Music/

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