Tori Amos Net Worth is
$6 Million

Mini Biography

Given birth to Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963 in Newton, NEW YORK (but moving to Baltimore, Maryland very shortly thereafter), singer/songwriter and sometimes-actress Tori Amos offers accumulated probably one of the most ravenous, cult- like followings recognized to the entertainment market. After slicing a 45″RPM record at age 18 known as “Baltimore” (which, combined with the flip-side music “Strolling With You,” earned her a citation through the mayor of Baltimore and the main element to the town,) Amos started recording demonstration tracks and sending them out to the documenting market. She got already obtained a pursuing in the Washington, D.C. region, most notably carrying out in gay piano pubs. Starting at age group 16, she was frequently followed by her minister dad, Dr. Rev. Edison Amos. At age 21 she transferred to LA and participated in a variety of pop and hair-metal rings, including “Tess Makes Great” and “Dresses burning.” Ultimately she arrived herself within a music group known as “Y Kant Tori Browse.” The associates of the music group were comparative unknowns, although guitarist Steve Caton acquired performed with her for quite some time at that time and continued to take action until 1999 before departing to go after his own efforts. “Y Kant Tori Go through” eventually collected interest from Atlantic Information and was authorized to record an recording with famous 80’s music maker Joe Chicarelli (who, for the time being, got Tori different back-up vocal gigs on tasks by Pherron, Sandra Bernhard as well as obtained her a music in the soundtrack towards the schlocky martial-arts film “China O’Brien” — Tori was paid $300). Atlantic Information’ primary interest had not been in the music group however in the loopy, sexy, big-haired primary vocalist. When Y Kant Tori Browse went in to the studio room to record their initial major label record, just Tori and Steve Caton continued to be. All of those other music group was fleshed out with vocalist/pianist Kim Bullard (of Kajagoogoo) and Matt Sorum (afterwards of Guns and Roses). The eponymous debut record was an enormous flop, selling significantly less than 8,000 copies. The disturbing music video which shown several times on MTV highlighted Tori in epidermis tight leather jeans and a halter best cavorting around a “downtown LA” studio room arranged with sky-high locks, waving around a sword and dance with bikers and rock-n-roll women in red tutus. The large failure place Tori inside a funk, but her record label was ready to provide her yet another shot. She turned gears back again to the girl-with-a-piano audio she experienced centered on for a lot of her youngsters. (Amos was the youngest person accepted in to the Baltimore Peabody Conservatory, though she was kicked out a couple of years later on for refusing to learn sheet music. Hence the name of her hair-metal music group.) Ultimately, through encouragement from close friends, she come up with the band of songs that could constitute her initial solo record, “Small Earthquakes.” As the articles and audio from the music in “Small Earthquakes” was therefore different than that which was becoming performed on American radio, Atlantic relocated Tori to London, Britain where she very quickly became a smash strike. Gathering frequent evaluations to Kate Bush, Amos was called a “fruits- loop” and a “kook” from the English press. Who was simply this 5 feet 1/2″ redhead, putting on swimsuits with blue denim jeans over them, executing intensely personal piano-pop while writhing at her device? Amos’ debut record eventually garnered many strike singles in both UK and the united states including “Wintertime,” “Silent EACH ONE OF THESE Years,” “Crucify” and “China.” One of the most startling tune, nevertheless, was a monitor known as “Me and a Gun.” It had been an a’capella accounts of her very own knowledge with rape, and its own impact will be sensed by Tori over another couple of years. She also obtained further see by liberating an E.P. from the track “Crucify” with three cover tunes, especially a remake of Nirvana’s “HAS THE AROMA OF Teen Soul.” This might tag Tori’s habit of totally reinterprereting other’s functions in live shows so that as B-sides. At this time Tori began what would turn into a trademark design of touring on her behalf, spending nearly a 12 months tirelessly touring the whole planet. She also started her habit of adding new functions to soundtrack albums using the tune “Happy Employees” in the Playthings soundtrack. In 1994 Tori released her second record, “Beneath the Green.” Where her initial record was extremely diary-like, confessional and piano-pop focused, “Beneath the Green” was fleshed out with complete orchestral arrangements, plenty of guitars and drums, and a good small industrial-techno (in the tune “The Waitress”). The record was also lyrically a lot more inaccessible, with subtext together with subtext. Music like “At night Mission,” popular single, handled the sexual romantic relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdelene. It had been at this time Tori really created an underground pursuing of fans who research and keep hold of every term she uttered within an interview, wishing to obtain a clearer knowledge of her music. The recording also experienced strikes with “VERY GOOD Calendar year,” “God,” and “Cornflake Gal,” a melody that addressed this issue of African feminine genitalia mutilation (with regards to Alice Walker’s reserve “Possessing the trick of Pleasure”). The melody “God” exposed Tori’s ongoing rivalry using the spiritual correct, who objected towards the song’s content material. “God sometimes you merely don’t arrive through/Do you will need a female to provide for you?” The music was even delivered to r / c on the promo disk with “some acoustic guitar/no acoustic guitar” remix variations to reduce the harsh audio. At the moment Tori was getting so many characters from supporters who acquired encounters with rape that she founded “R.A.We.N.N.”, the Rape, Mistreatment and Incest Country wide Network. It had been, and is up to now, the nation’s just 24 hour, totally private and toll free of charge hotline for victims of intimate assault. It has truly gone near collapse many times and provides relied on Tori’s generosity to draw itself through. She also added the music “Butterfly” and “Shedding My Religious beliefs” (a cover of R.E.M.’s strike) towards the soundtrack of “Higher Learning.” In 1996 Tori released her third recording, “Young boys For Pele,” to essential acclaim but lower recording product sales. It became very clear that she designed to not really let through to the cryptical lyricism. Upon this recording she also released songs centered across the harpsichord, clavichord and harmonium organ. As she got brought the piano back to the pop picture in 1992, with “Young boys For Pele” she crafted extremely complex pop music around these antiquated equipment along with orchestra, brass rings and gospel choirs. The record contains 19 monitors (and nearly 20 non-album monitors released as B-sides on singles). She collaborated with George Porter Jr. from the Meters over the record, which highlighted southern-influenced artwork including an image of Tori breasts nourishing a piglet. (This picture was on the billboard in LA and caused a vehicle accident, producing a publicized lawsuit. The picture was taken off library-issued copies from the record.) The record handled the theme from the man interactions in Tori’s lifestyle, especially her break up with Eric Rossee, previous record manufacturer whom she have been involved with for pretty much 7 years. (Pele is certainly a Hawaiian volcano goddess to whom man sacrifices are created.) The record spawned strikes with “Captured A Lite Sneeze” (which produced background as the initial track made available like a download on the web by the saving market), “Talula” (that was remixed by dance designer B.T. and contained in the soundtrack towards the film “Twister”), “Professional Widow,” “In the Springtime of His Voodoo” and “Hey Jupiter.” At the moment Amos do something nobody anticipated, and allowed her music to become remixed and released to dance night clubs. The track “Professional Widow,” originally a tough, punkish harpsichord dirge about Courtney Like and her participation in spouse Kurt Cobain’s loss of life, became an enormous smash dance membership strike when musician Armand Truck Helden remixed it only using the lines “Honey, take it near my lip area” and “It’s Gotta end up being Big.” The remix brought Amos her biggest strike however, and propelled Truck Helden to stardom although years afterwards he’d comment that he didn’t get a dime in the remix. Pursuing that achievement, a remix of “In the Springtime of His Voodoo” was released with lesser achievement. She also recollaborated with BT on the track known as “Blue Skies.” BT went to among Tori’s concert soundchecks and experienced her improvise the lyrics towards the track, which then mixed right into a #1 dance strike. Amos, for the time being, continuing to rigorously tour the globe. During her 1997 tour she used a romantic relationship with her audio engineer Tag Hawley, and experienced a miscarriage. In 1998 she released the record “In the Choirgirl Resort,” which dealt extremely highly with her miscarriage and the thought of loss. The record was her most available since “Small Earthquakes,” and much more radio friendly. It had been also her initial venture with a complete rock-band since “Y Kant Tori Go through” in 1988. Nevertheless mainstream the album’s audio was, with rock and roll influence, and a good complete techno music (“Resort”), the lyrics continued to be cryptic as ever. The recording artwork presented Amos in a variety of wacky clothes, having been full-body scanned on the human being sized photocopier. The recording spawned the strike singles “Spark,” “Cruel,” “Raspberry Swirl,” and “Jackie’s Power.” The last mentioned was remixed right into a dance strike; it handled a woman’s a reaction to the loss of life of Jackie Kennedy and its own relevance to her very own wedding. The melody “Raspberry Swirl” was nominated for the Grammy award for greatest alternative functionality. The tour for the record was perhaps one of the most effective of the entire year. In 1998 Tori also toured with Alanis Morrissete, leading to quite a mix among enthusiasts. Tori performed before Alanis, labeling her as the starting act, though it was a co-tour and the easy truth was that Tori HAD to execute 1st due to establishing and removing her piano. In 1999 Tori released “To Venus and Back again,” a 2 Compact disc set that presented one disk of 11 fresh tracks and another disk of sort of “most significant strikes live” of shows from her 1998 tour. The disk didn’t perform aswell as past initiatives, though it spawned the strikes “Bliss,” “Concertina” and “1,000 Oceans.” She toured to aid the record with a complete music group. She also wedded her audio engineer, Tag Hawley. In the entire year 2000 Tori and Tag gave birth with their 1st kid, Natashya Lórien Hawley. In 2001 Amos released “Unusual GIRLS,” an recording of 12 cover tracks. This recording was a full-on idea recording. Amos’ objective was to re-interpret these tracks, all compiled by man artists about woman characters, from a lady viewpoint. She made 13 female individuals (one each for 11 music plus a group of twins). She induced longtime-colleague makeup musician Kevin Aucoin to make the individuals and acquired photos taken of every. The songs over the record all cope with assault and men’s sights of females. She tackles such tracks as “Pleasure can be a Warm Gun” with the Beatles from the idea of view from the prostitute who stopped at John Lennon’s assassin hours prior to the murder; “’97 Bonnie and Clyde” by Eminem from the idea of view from the slaughtered and dying wife in the trunk of the automobile; and “Center of Platinum” from the idea of look at of twins involved with international espionage. As though all this weren’t plenty of, she also induced legendary comic publication and novel writer Neil Gaiman to create short tales about each personality, although these were decreased to simple quotations in the liner records. The record premiered with 4 different addresses. Tori continues to create well-known, interesting music on her behalf own conditions. Although she’s participated in performing projects before (a “Kellog’s PERFECTLY” industrial and a visitor role in it courtroom dilemma “Trial by Jury,” both in the past due 80s during her hair-metal stage), she doesn’t appear in a rush to keep writing.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Tori Amos
Net Worth	$60 million
Date Of Birth	August 22, 1963
Height	1.57 m
Weight	110 lbs
Education	Richard Montgomery High School, Montgomery College, Peabody Institute, Cornflake Girl, Silent All These Years, A Sorta Fairytale
Nationality	American, Professional Widow
Spouse	Mark Hawley
Children	Natashya Lórien Hawley
Parents	Edison Amos, Mary Ellen Amos, Cornflake Girl, Silent All These Years, A Sorta Fairytale
Siblings	Marie Amos Dobyns, Mike Amos, Cornflake Girl, Silent All These Years, A Sorta Fairytale
Facebook	http://www.facebook.com/toriamos
Twitter	http://www.twitter.com/toriamos
Instagram	http://www.instagram.com/toriamos
Awards	Glamour Woman of the Year Award
Nominations	Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Female, NME Award for Best Reissue, MTV Video Music Award Best Breakthrough Video, MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography, Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist, Brit Award for International Breakthrough Act, Echo Award for Best International Rock/Pop Female Artist, WhatsOnStage Award for London Newcomer of the Year, Critics' Choice Documentary Award Best Song in a Documentary, WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Musical, Cornflake Girl, Silent All These Years, A Sorta Fairytale
Movies	Fade to Red, Mona Lisa Smile, Tori Amos: A Sorta Fairytale