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Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter. She is married to her English sound engineer Mark Hawley, and they have one daughter together, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000.
Amos was one of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and is noteworthy as one of the few modern pop music stars to utilize a piano as her primary instrument and play piano rock. She is known for lyrically opaque but emotionally intense songs that tackle a wide range of subjects, including sexuality, religion, patriarchy and personal tragedy. Some of her charting singles include " Crucify," " Silent All These Years," "Caught a Lite Sneeze," " Me and a Gun," "Cornflake Girl," "A Sorta Fairytale," " Professional Widow" and "Spark."
Amos has experienced limited chart success in the United States and the United Kingdom, but has also enjoyed a large cult following. She is also known for making eccentric comments during interviews and in concerts.
Amos was born to Dr. Rev. Edison and Mary Ellen Amos in Newton, North Carolina, during a trip from their home in Georgetown ( Washington, D.C.) to North Carolina, at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina. When Amos was 2½, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland where she began to play the piano and attend her father's church every week. By age 5, she had written her first song. She spent much of her childhood with her maternal grandfather, who was part Eastern Cherokee (an Eastern Cherokee with some European ancestry).
