Tori Amos

Biography

Tori Amos is a classically trained pianist and mezzo-soprano singer-songwriter born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963. A child prodigy, she began performing in Washington, D.C. bars at age five before forming the pop-rock group Y Kant Tori Read and later achieving solo success in the early 1990s. Her music often explores themes of sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion through charting singles like "Crucify" and "Silent All These Years".