Myra Ellen Amos better known as Tori Amos is an American born (Aug 22) singer, songwriter and pianist. She is best known for the songs "Cornflake Girl" and "Professional Widow." She came to prominence with the release of her first two albums, "Little Earthquakes" and "Under the Pink" (and in off the brown). The latter was #1 on the UK album chart and spawned her top 10 hits "Cornflake Girl" and Pretty Good Year." She had more semi hit singles from her third album, "Boys for Pele" which included "Professional Widow". That song was remixed and spark an accidential change of genre when it first reached #1 on both the UK and US charts in middle of 1996. It would later be re-released in the UK (with the Armand Van Heldon mixes) where it reached #1 on both the main UK and UK dance charts at the start of 1997. She'd go on to have further US Dance #1 hits with "Blue Skies" (1997) and "Jackie's Strength" (1999).
90 Hits (Discography):Date UK Song Mar 1992 25 Winter Jun 1992 15 Crucify Aug 1992 26 Silent All These Years Jan 1994 4 Cornflake Girl Mar 1994 7 Pretty Good Year May 1994 31 Past The Mission Jan 1996 20 Caught A Lite Sneeze Mar 1996 22 Talula Aug 1996 20 Hey Jupiter / Professional Widow Nov 1996 26 Blue Skies (featured with BT) Jan 1997 1 Professional Widow (remix) May 1998 16 Spark
What happened next?
Tori Amos moved to Cornwall and married sound engineer, Mark Hawley in 1998. Amos has written two autobiography/memoirs, "Piece by Piece" (written with rock journalist Ann Powers in 2005) and "Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage" (2020).
Amos scored her fourth US Dance #1 hit in 2012 with "Flavor." Amos released a holiday-themed EP entitled Christmastide recorded in COVID lockdown at the end of 2020, digitally and on limited edition vinyl. The EP consists of four original songs and features her first work with bandmates Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans since 2009.
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