Tori Amos

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01.04.2009 21:46
Tori Amos will release new album
Tori Amos announced that her new album will hit the stores in May 18. Singer and songwriter claimed that with this album she wanted to make «a treasure, something people will value».

Biography

Singer and pianist Myra Ellen Amos, more known as Tori Amos, was born in the American town of Newton in 1963. The family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, when the girl was two years old. There Amos started to play the piano. By the age of nine, she began to compose songs. In 1968, the girl got the scholarship for the Peabody Conservatory Of Music and became the youngest student ever to attend the establishment. However, at the age eleven, she was expelled from the conservatory due to the problems with discipline. Two years later Amos entered the Montgomery College and began to perform in bars, while her father made records of her concerts and sent demos to the different studios. The Baltimore track, written by Amos with her brother Mike for cheering up Baltimore Orioles, became the first single of the young singer. After her twenty-first birthday, Tori Amos moved to Los Angeles where she formed the band titled Y Kant Tori Read. The artist was raped after one of her solo performances. This tragic experience became the basis for the lyrics of the debut album of the band - Y Kant Tori Read, released by the Atlantic Records.

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