Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a

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vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the

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at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She had to leave at the age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what ''

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'' described as "musical insubordination". Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop-rock group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion. Her charting singles include "

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", " Silent All These Years", "

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", "

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", " Caught a Lite Sneeze", " Professional Widow", " Spark", " 1000 Oceans", " Flavor" and " A Sorta Fairytale". Amos has received five MTV VMA nominations and eight

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nominations, and won an Echo Klassik award for her '' Night of Hunters''

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album. She is listed on

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's 1999 "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" at number 71.

Early life and education

Amos is the third child of Mary Ellen (née Copeland) and Edison McKinley Amos. She was born on August 22, 1963 at the Old Catawba Hospital in

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, during a trip from their Georgetown home in Washington, D.C., and was named Myra Ellen Amos. Some of Amos's ancestors were Confederate soldiers. In her memoir, ''Piece by Piece'', she talks about the experience of these Confederate ancestors, Margaret Little and Grandaddy Calvin Rice, during the

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. When she was two years old, her family relocated to

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, Maryland, where her father had moved his

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ministry from its original base in Washington, D.C. Her older brother and sister took piano lessons, but Tori did not need them. From the time she could reach the piano, she taught herself to play: when she was two, she could reproduce pieces of music she had only heard once, and, by the age of three, she was composing her own songs. She has described seeing music as structures of light since early childhood, an experience consistent with

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: At five, she became the youngest student ever admitted to the preparatory division of the

. She studied classical piano at Peabody from 1968 to 1974. In 1974, when she was eleven, her scholarship was discontinued, and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in

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and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. In 1972, the Amos family moved to

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, where her father became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. At thirteen, Amos began playing at

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s and piano bars, chaperoned by her father. Amos won a county teen talent contest in 1977, singing a song called "More Than Just a Friend". As a senior at

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, she co-wrote "

" with her brother, Mike Amos, for a competition involving the

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. The song did not win the contest but became her first single, released as a

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pressed locally for family and friends in 1980 with another Amos-penned composition as a

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, "Walking With You". Before this, she had performed under her middle name, Ellen, and was considering the stage name "Sammy Jaye" at the time, but permanently adopted "Tori" after a friend's boyfriend told her she looked like a Torrey pine, a tree native to the West Coast.

Career

1979–1989: Career beginnings and Y Kant Tori Read

By the time she was 17, Amos had a stock of homemade demo tapes that her father regularly sent out to record companies and producers. Producer

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responded favorably: he and Amos cut some tracks together, but none were released. Eventually,

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responded to one of the tapes, and, when A&R man

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flew to Baltimore to audition her in person, the label was convinced and signed her. In 1984, Amos moved to Los Angeles to pursue her music career after several years performing on the piano bar circuit in the

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area. In 1986, Amos formed a musical group called Y Kant Tori Read, named for her difficulty with

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. In addition to Amos, the group was composed of Steve Caton (who would later play guitars on all of her albums until 1999), drummer

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, bass player Brad Cobb and, for a short time, keyboardist Jim Tauber. The band went through several iterations of songwriting and recording; Amos has said interference from record executives caused the band to lose its musical edge and direction during this time. Finally, in July 1988, the band's eponymous debut album, '' Y Kant Tori Read'', was released. Although its producer, Joe Chiccarelli, stated that Amos was very happy with the album at the time, Amos has since criticized it, once remarking: "The only good thing about that album is my ankle high boots." Following the album's commercial failure and the group's subsequent disbanding, Amos began working with other artists (including

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, Sandra Bernhard, and

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) as a backup vocalist. She also recorded a song called "Distant Storm" (which she did not write), which was used in the film '' China O'Brien.'' In the credits, the song is attributed to a band called Tess Makes Good. Amos recorded the vocals for the song in 1988, for $150; she was unaware for several years that the song had actually been heard in a film. Other than the appearance in the film itself, "Distant Storm" has never been commercially issued in any format.

1990–1995: ''Little Earthquakes'' and ''Under the Pink''

Despite the disappointing reaction to ''Y Kant Tori Read'', Amos still had to comply with her six-record contract with Atlantic Records, which, in 1989, wanted a new record by March 1990. The initial recordings were declined by the label, which Amos felt was because the album had not been properly presented. The album was reworked and expanded under the guidance of

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and the musical talents of Steve Caton,

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, Will MacGregor, Carlo Nuccio, and Dan Nebenzal, resulting in '' Little Earthquakes'', an album recounting her religious upbringing, sexual awakening, struggle to establish her identity, and sexual assault. This album became her commercial and artistic breakthrough, entering the British charts in January 1992 at Number 15. ''Little Earthquakes'' was released in the United States in February 1992 and slowly but steadily began to attract listeners, gaining more attention with the video for the single " Silent All These Years". Amos traveled to

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with personal and professional partner

in 1993 to write and largely record her second solo record, '' Under the Pink''. The album was received with mostly favorable reviews and sold enough copies to chart at No. 12 on the ''Billboard 200'', a significantly higher position than the preceding album's position at No. 54 on the same chart. However, the album found its biggest success in the UK, debuting at number one upon release in February 1994.

1996–2000: ''Boys for Pele'', ''From the Choirgirl Hotel'', and ''To Venus and Back''

Her third solo album, '' Boys for Pele'', was released in January 1996. Prior to its release, the first single, " Caught a Lite Sneeze" became the first full song released for streaming online prior to an album's release. The album was recorded in a church in Delgany,

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, with Amos taking advantage of the church's acoustics. For this album, Amos used the

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, and

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as well as the piano. The album garnered mixed reviews upon its release, with some critics praising its intensity and uniqueness while others bemoaned its comparative impenetrability. Despite the album's erratic lyrical content and instrumentation, the latter of which kept it away from mainstream audiences, ''Boys for Pele'' is Amos' most successful simultaneous transatlantic release, reaching No. 2 on the UK Top 40 and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 upon its release. Fueled by the desire to have her own recording studio to distance herself from record company executives, Amos had the barn of her home in

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, UK converted into the state-of-the-art recording studio of Martian Engineering Studios. '' From the Choirgirl Hotel'' and '' To Venus and Back'', released in May 1998 and September 1999, respectively, differ greatly from previous albums. Amos' trademark acoustic, piano-based sound is largely replaced with arrangements that include elements of

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and dance music with vocal washes. The underlying themes of both albums deal with womanhood and Amos' own miscarriages and marriage. Reviews for ''From the Choirgirl Hotel'' were mostly favorable and praised Amos' continued artistic originality. Debut sales for ''From the Choirgirl Hotel'' are Amos' best to date, selling 153,000 copies in its first week. ''To Venus and Back'', a two-disc release of original studio material and live material recorded from the previous world tour, received mostly positive reviews and included the first major-label single available for sale as a digital download.

2001–2004: ''Strange Little Girls'' and ''Scarlet's Walk''

Shortly after giving birth to her daughter, Amos decided to record a

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, taking songs written by men about women and reversing the

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to reflect a woman's perspective. That became '' Strange Little Girls'', released in September 2001. The album is Amos' first

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, with artwork featuring Amos photographed in character of the women portrayed in each song. Amos would later reveal that a stimulus for the album was to end her contract with Atlantic without giving them original songs; Amos felt that since 1998, the label had not been properly promoting her and had trapped her in a contract by refusing to sell her to another label. With her Atlantic contract fulfilled after a 15-year stint, Amos signed to

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in late 2001. In October 2002, Amos released ''

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'', another concept album. Described as a "sonic novel", the album explores Amos'

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, Scarlet, intertwined with her cross-country concert tour following

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. Through the songs, Amos explores such topics as the history of America, American people, Native American history, pornography, masochism,

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and

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. The album had a strong debut at No. 7 on the Billboard 200. ''Scarlet's Walk'' is Amos' last album to date to reach certified gold status from the

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. Note: User must define search parameters, i.e. "Tori Amos". Not long after Amos was ensconced with her new label, she received unsettling news when Polly Anthony resigned as president of Epic Records in 2003. Anthony had been one of the primary reasons Amos signed with the label and as a result of her resignation, Amos formed the Bridge Entertainment Group. Further trouble for Amos occurred the following year when her label, Epic/Sony Music Entertainment, merged with BMG Entertainment as a result of the industry's decline.

2005–2008: ''The Beekeeper'' and ''American Doll Posse''

Amos released two more albums with

, ''

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'' (2005) and '' American Doll Posse'' (2007). Both albums received generally favorable reviews. ''The Beekeeper'' was conceptually influenced by the ancient art of

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, which she considered a source of female inspiration and empowerment. Through extensive study, Amos also wove in the stories of the

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and the removal of women from a position of power within the

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to create an album based largely on religion and politics. The album debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, placing her in an elite group of women who have secured five or more US Top 10 album debuts. While the newly merged label was present throughout the production process of ''The Beekeeper'', Amos and her crew nearly completed her next project, ''American Doll Posse'', before inviting the label to listen to it. ''American Doll Posse'', another concept album, is fashioned around a group of girls (the "posse") who are used as a theme of alter-egos of Amos'. Musically and stylistically, the album saw Amos return to a more confrontational nature. Like its predecessor, ''American Doll Posse'' debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. During her tenure with Epic Records, Amos also released a retrospective collection titled '' Tales of a Librarian'' (2003) through her former label, Atlantic Records; a two-disc DVD set '' Fade to Red'' (2006) containing most of Amos' solo music videos, released through the Warner Bros. reissue imprint Rhino; a five disc box set titled '' A Piano: The Collection'' (2006), celebrating Amos' 15-year solo career through remastered album tracks, remixes, alternate mixes, demos, and a string of unreleased songs from album recording sessions, also released through Rhino; and numerous official bootlegs from two world tours, '' The Original Bootlegs'' (2005) and '' Legs & Boots'' (2007) through Epic Records.

2008–2011: ''Abnormally Attracted to Sin'' and ''Midwinter Graces''

In May 2008, Amos announced that, due to creative and financial disagreements with

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, she had negotiated an end to her contract with the record label, and would be operating independently of major record labels on future work. In September of the same year, Amos released a live album and DVD, '' Live at Montreux 1991/1992'', through Eagle Rock Entertainment, of two performances she gave at the Montreux Jazz Festival very early on in her career while promoting her debut solo album, '' Little Earthquakes''. By December, after a chance encounter with chairman and CEO of

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, Amos signed a "joint venture" deal with

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. '' Abnormally Attracted to Sin'', Amos' tenth solo studio album and her first album released through Universal Republic, was released in May 2009 to mostly positive reviews. The album debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, making it Amos' seventh album to do so. ''Abnormally Attracted to Sin'', admitted Amos, is a "personal album", not a conceptual one, with the album exploring themes of power, boundaries, and the subjective view of sin. Continuing her distribution deal with Universal Republic, Amos released '' Midwinter Graces'', her first seasonal album, in November of the same year. The album features reworked versions of traditional carols, as well as original songs written by Amos. During her contract with the label, Amos recorded vocals for two songs for David Byrne's collaboration album with

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, titled '' Here Lies Love'', which was released in April 2010. In July of the same year, the DVD ''Tori Amos- Live from the Artists Den'' was released exclusively through

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. After a brief tour from June to September 2010, Amos released a live album '' From Russia With Love'' in December the same year, recorded in Moscow on September 3, 2010. The limited edition set included a signature edition Lomography Diana F+ camera, along with two lenses, a roll of film and one of five photographs taken of Amos during her time in Moscow. The set was released exclusively through her website and only 2000 copies were produced.

2011–2015: ''Night of Hunters'', ''Gold Dust'', and ''Unrepentant Geraldines''

In September 2011, Amos released her first classical-style music album, '' Night of Hunters'', featuring variations on a theme to pay tribute to composers such as

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, Chopin,

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, Granados, Satie and

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, on the

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label, a division of

. Amos recorded the album with several musicians, including the

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. To mark the 20th anniversary of her debut album, '' Little Earthquakes'' (1992), Amos released an album of songs from her back catalogue re-worked and re-recorded with the Metropole Orchestra. The album, titled '' Gold Dust'', was released in October 2012 through Deutsche Grammophon.Allison Stewart (December 8, 2011)
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On May 1, 2012, Amos announced the formation of her own record label, Transmission Galactic, which she said she intended to use to develop new artists. In 2013, Amos collaborated with the Bullitts on the track "Wait Until Tomorrow" from their debut album, ''They Die by Dawn & Other Short Stories''. She also stated in an interview that a new album and tour would materialize in 2014 and that it would be a "return to contemporary music". September 2013 saw the launch of Amos' musical project adaptation of

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's '' The Light Princess'', along with book writer Samuel Adamson and Marianne Elliott. It premiered at London's

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and ended in February 2014. '' The Light Princess'' and its lead actress,

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, were nominated for Best Musical and Best Musical Performance respectively at the Evening Standard Award. Craig won the Best Musical Performance category. Amos' 14th studio album, '' Unrepentant Geraldines'', was released on May 13, 2014, via Mercury Classics/Universal Music Classics in the US. Its first single, " Trouble's Lament", was released on March 28. The album was supported by the Unrepentant Geraldines Tour which began May 5, 2014, in Cork and continued across Europe, Africa, North America, and Australia, ending in Brisbane on November 21, 2014. In

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, Amos performed two orchestral concerts, reminiscent of the Gold Dust Orchestral Tour, with the

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at the

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. According to a press release, ''Unrepentant Geraldines'' was a "return to her core identity as a creator of contemporary songs of exquisite beauty following a series of more classically-inspired and innovative musical projects of the last four years. t isboth one further step in the artistic evolution of one of the most successful and influential artists of her generation, and a return to the inspiring and personal music that Amos is known for all around the world." The 2-CD set '' The Light Princess (Original Cast Recording)'' was released on October 9, 2015, via Universal/Mercury Classics. Apart from the original cast performances, the recording also includes two songs from the musical ("Highness in the Sky" and "Darkest Hour') performed by Amos.

2016–present: ''Native Invader'', ''Christmastide'' and ''Ocean to Ocean''

On November 18, 2016, Amos released a deluxe version of the album '' Boys for Pele'' to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the original release. This follows the deluxe re-releases of her first two albums in 2015. On September 8, 2017, Amos released '' Native Invader'', accompanied by a world tour. During the summer of 2017, Amos launched three songs from the album: "Cloud Riders", "Up the Creek", and "Reindeer King", the latter featuring string arrangements by John Philip Shenale. Produced by Amos, the album explores topics like American politics and environmental issues, mixed with mythological elements and first-person narrations. ''Native Invader'' obtained a score of 76 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On November 9, 2020, Amos announced the release of a holiday-themed EP entitled ''Christmastide'' on December 4, 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. Amos recorded the EP remotely due to the impact of the

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. On September 20, 2021, Amos announced her sixteenth studio album, '' Ocean to Ocean'', which was released on October 29. The album was written and recorded in Cornwall during lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and explores "a universal story of going to rock bottom and renewing yourself all over again". Amos embarked on a European and United States tour in support of the album in 2022, and continued to support the album in 2023 with a European Tour in March and April and additional US dates in June and July . Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans were featured on drums and bass guitar respectively, their first collaboration with Amos on an album since 2009's ''Midwinter Graces''. For the 2022 and 2023 tour, Amos was joined by Jon Evans and the drummer Ash Soan. She appeared at the EPIX original docuseries ''Women Who Rock'' which premiered on July 10, 2022. In 2023, Amos and

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covered

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's " Swimming Pools (Drank)". She also released a remix dance single titled "Tequila," produced by Paul Woolford. On November 1, 2024, Amos announced the release of a live album, '' Diving Deep Live'', on December 6, 2024, consisting of recordings from her 2022-23 tour in support of ''Ocean to Ocean''. it was released on double vinyl, on CD and digitally. On February 28, 2025, Amos released a surprise album, ''The Music of Tori and the Muses'', as a companion project to her illustrated children's book ''Tori and the Muses'', published on March 4. The album featured nine original songs and featured Jon Evans on bass guitar and Matt Chamberlain on drums. Touring drummer Ash Soan featured on drums on the tracks "Knocking", "Spike's Lament", and "Rain Brings Change".

In print

Amos and her music have been the subject of numerous official and unofficial books, as well as academic critique, including ''Tori Amos: Lyrics'' (2001) illustrated by Herb Leonhard, and an earlier biography, ''Tori Amos: All These Years'' (1996) by Kalen Rogers. Released in conjunction with ''The Beekeeper'', Amos co-authored an autobiography with rock music journalist Ann Powers titled '' Piece by Piece'' (2005). The book's subject is Amos' interest in mythology and religion, exploring her songwriting process, rise to fame, and her relationship with Atlantic Records.

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released '' Comic Book Tattoo'' (2008), a collection of

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stories, each based on or inspired by songs recorded by Amos. Editor Rantz Hoseley worked with Amos to gather 80 different artists for the book, including

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, Carla Speed McNeil, Mark Buckingham, C.B. Cebulski, Nikki Cook, Hope Larson, John Ney Reiber, Ryan Kelly,

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, David Mack, and Leah Moore. ''Tori Amos: In the Studio'' (2011) by Jake Brown features an in-depth look at Amos' career, discography, and recording process. ''Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos'' (2013) by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek explores the ways women are represented in pop culture and the many-layered relationships female fans build with feminist musicians in general and with Tori Amos in particular. ''Tori Amos' Boys for Pele'' (2018) by Amy Gentry uses a blend of memoir, criticism, and aesthetic theory in order to argue that the aesthetics of disgust are useful of thinking in a broader way about women's experience of all art forms. Amos released her second memoir, called ''Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage'' on May 5, 2020. ''Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes'' (2022) by Tori Amos and Neil Gaiman is an official graphic novel celebrating 30 years of Tori Amos' breakout album ''Little Earthquakes''. Written by Amos and illustrated by Demelsa Haughton, the children's book ''Tori and the Muses'' will be released on March 4, 2025.

Personal life

Amos married English

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Mark Hawley on February 22, 1998. They have one daughter, Natashya Lórien Hawley, born September 5, 2000. They live in

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, UK. Amos's mother, Mary Ellen, died on May 11, 2019. Early in her professional career, Amos befriended author

, who became a fan after she referred to him in the song "Tear in Your Hand" and also in print interviews. Although created before the two met, the character

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from Gaiman's '' The Sandman'' series is inspired by Amos; Gaiman has stated that they "steal shamelessly from each other". She wrote the foreword to his collection '' Death: The High Cost of Living''; he in turn wrote the introduction to '' Comic Book Tattoo''. Gaiman is godfather to her daughter, and a poem written for her birth, "Blueberry Girl", was published as a children's book of the same name in 2009. In 2019, Amos performed the British

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" A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" over the closing credits of season one of Gaiman's TV series '' Good Omens'', based on the novel of the same name written by Gaiman and

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Activism

In June 1994, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), a toll-free help line in the US connecting callers with their local rape crisis center, was founded. Amos stated in a 1994 interview that she was raped at knife point when she was 22 and did not report the incident to the authorities. She answered the ceremonial first call to launch the hotline. She was the first national spokesperson for the organization and has continued to be closely associated with RAINN. On August 18, 2013, a concert in honor of her 50th birthday was held, an event which raised money for RAINN. On August 22, 2020, Amos appeared on a panel called Artistry & Activism at the diversity and inclusion digital global conference CARLA.

Relationship with Cherokee culture

Amos has frequently referred to Native American culture, history, and spirituality in her music and visual art, as well as making personal connections with the culture. She has spoken about ancestors on her mother's side she said were of Cherokee descent. Of particular importance to her as a child was her maternal grandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, whom she has cited as a great source of inspiration and guidance, offering a

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spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity. She has said her great-grandmother evaded the

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by taking refuge in the

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, her family's place of residence. Amos took a trip through the Smokies which formed the creative basis for her album ''Native Invader''. While talking to ''

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'' about taking

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and attending sweatlodge ceremonies with her sister, Amos has also said, "I'm not in a position to speak for First Nation people – that's a sacred task."

Legacy

Artists who have been influenced and/or admire Amos's work include

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, Amy Lee of

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of Years & Years,

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, Olivia Rodrigo,

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, and Jack Colwell.

Discography

Studio albums * '' Little Earthquakes'' (1992) * '' Under the Pink'' (1994) * '' Boys for Pele'' (1996) * '' From the Choirgirl Hotel'' (1998) * '' To Venus and Back'' (1999) * '' Strange Little Girls'' (2001) * ''

'' (2002) * ''

'' (2005) * '' American Doll Posse'' (2007) * '' Abnormally Attracted to Sin'' (2009) * '' Midwinter Graces'' (2009) * '' Night of Hunters'' (2011) * '' Gold Dust'' (2012) * '' Unrepentant Geraldines'' (2014) * '' Native Invader'' (2017) * '' Ocean to Ocean'' (2021) *'' The Music of Tori and the Muses'' (2025)

Tours

Amos, who has been performing in bars and clubs from as early as 1976 and under her professional name as early as 1991, has performed more than 1,000 shows since her first world tour in 1992. In 2003, Amos was voted fifth best touring act by the readers of ''

'' magazine. Her concerts are notable for their changing set lists from night to night. ;Little Earthquakes Tour :Amos' first world tour began on January 29, 1992, in London and ended on November 30, 1992, in

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. She performed solo with a

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unless the venue was able to provide a piano. The tour included 142 concerts around the globe. ;Under the Pink Tour :Amos' second world tour began on February 24, 1994, in

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and ended on December 13, 1994, in

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, Western Australia. Amos performed solo each night on her iconic

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piano, and on a

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during "Bells for Her". The tour included 181 concerts. ;Dew Drop Inn Tour :The third world tour began on February 23, 1996, in

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, England, and ended on November 11, 1996, in

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. Amos performed each night on piano,

, and

, with Steve Caton on guitar on some songs. The tour included 187 concerts. ;Plugged '98 Tour :Amos' first band tour. Amos, on piano and Kurzweil keyboard, was joined by Steve Caton on guitar,

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on drums, and Jon Evans on bass. The tour began on April 18, 1998, in Fort Lauderdale and ended on December 3, 1998, in

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, including 137 concerts. Highlights from the tour were included on the live disc of ''To Venus and Back''. ; 5 ½ Weeks Tour / To Dallas and Back :Amos' fifth tour was North America–only. The first part of the tour was co-headlining with

and featured the same band and equipment line-up as in 1998. Amos and the band continued for eight shows before Amos embarked on a series of solo shows. The tour began on August 18, 1999, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and ended on December 9, 1999, in Denver, including 46 concerts. ;Strange Little Tour :This tour was Amos' first since becoming a mother in 2000 and her first tour fully solo since 1994 ( Steve Caton was present on some songs in 1996). It saw Amos perform on piano,

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, and

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, and though the tour was in support of her covers album, the set lists were not strictly covers-oriented. Having brought her one-year-old daughter on the road with her, this tour was also one of Amos' shortest ventures, lasting just three months. It began on August 30, 2001, in London and ended on December 17, 2001, in Milan, including 55 concerts. ;On Scarlet's Walk / Lottapianos Tour :Amos' seventh tour saw her reunited with

and Jon Evans, but not Steve Caton. The first part of the tour, which featured Amos on piano, Kurzweil, Rhodes, and Wurlitzer, was six months long and Amos went out again in the summer of 2003 for a tour with

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opening. The tour began on November 7, 2002, in

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and ended on September 4, 2003, in West Palm Beach, featuring 124 concerts. The final show of the tour was filmed and released as part of a DVD/CD set titled '' Welcome to Sunny Florida'' (the set also included a studio EP titled '' Scarlet's Hidden Treasures'', an extension of the ''

'' album). ;Original Sinsuality Tour / Summer of Sin :This tour began on April 1, 2005, in

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, with Amos on piano, two

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organs, and Rhodes. The tour also encompassed Australia for the first time since 1994. Amos announced at a concert on this tour that she would never stop touring but would scale down the tours. Amos returned to the road in August and September for the Summer of Sin North America leg, ending on September 17, 2005, in Los Angeles. The tour featured "Tori's Piano Bar", where fans could nominate cover songs on Amos' website which she would then choose from to play in a special section of each show. One of the songs chosen was the

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", which Amos dedicated to her the day after Minogue's

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was announced to the public. Other songs performed by Amos include

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' " People Are Strange",

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's " The Circle Game",

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's " Live to Tell" and " Like a Prayer",

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, just after the events Hurricane Katrina),

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's " And Dream of Sheep" and

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", dedicating it to drummer

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who had died a week before. The entire concert tour featured 82 concerts, and six full-length concerts were released as '' The Original Bootlegs''. ;American Doll Posse World Tour :This was Amos' first tour with a full band since her 1999 Five and a Half Weeks Tour, accompanied by long-time bandmates Jon Evans and Matt Chamberlain, with guitarist Dan Phelps rounding out Amos' new band. Amos' equipment included her piano, a Hammond B-3 organ, and two Yamaha S90 ES keyboards. The tour kicked off with its European leg in Rome, Italy, on May 28, 2007, which lasted through July, concluding in Israel; the Australian leg took place during September; the North American leg lasted from October to December 16, 2007, when the tour concluded in Los Angeles. Amos opened each show dressed as one of the four non-Tori personae from the album, then Amos would emerge as herself to perform for the remaining two-thirds of the show. The entire concert tour featured 93 concerts, and 27 full-length concerts of the North American tour were released as official bootlegs in the '' Legs and Boots'' series. ;Sinful Attraction Tour :For her tenth tour, Amos returned to the trio format of her 2002 and 2003 tours with bassist Jon Evans and drummer Matt Chamberlain while expanding her lineup of keyboards by adding three

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MIDI controllers to her ensemble of her piano, a Hammond B-3 organ, and a Yamaha S90 ES keyboard. The North American and European band tour began on July 10, 2009, in Seattle, Washington, and ended in Warsaw on October 10, 2009. A solo leg through Australia began in Melbourne on November 12, 2009, and ended in Brisbane on November 24, 2009. The entire tour featured 63 concerts. This tour was the last tour to feature Matt Chamberlain on drums to date, as well as the last tour to feature Jon Evans on bass until the Ocean to Ocean Tour in 2022. ; Night of Hunters Tour :Amos' eleventh tour was her first with a string quartet, Apollon Musagète, (Amos' equipment includes her piano and a Yamaha S90 ES keyboard) and her first time touring in South Africa. It kicked off on September 28, 2011, in Helsinki Ice Hall, Finland, and ended on December 22, 2011, in Dallas, Texas. ; Gold Dust Orchestral Tour :Amos began her 2012 tour in Rotterdam on October 1. ; Unrepentant Geraldines Tour :Amos began her 2014 world tour on May 5, 2014, in Cork, Ireland, and concluded it in Brisbane, Australia, on November 21, after playing 73 concerts. ; Native Invader Tour :Amos' 2017 tour in support of the ''Native Invader'' album kicked off on September 6, 2017, with a series of European shows in Cork, Ireland, moving on to North America in October. ;Ocean to Ocean Tour :Amos embarked on tour in 2022 in support of the ''Ocean to Ocean'' album, with the bassist John Evans and the drummer Ash Soan. The tour was originally set to begin in Berlin, Germany, but all mainland Europe dates were subsequently postponed due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour began in the United Kingdom with dates in London, Glasgow and Manchester before moving on to Ireland with dates in Dublin and Cork. The North American tour began in April 2022 in Dallas, Texas, and concluded in June in Los Angeles, California. The 2023 European tour began in Edinburgh, UK, in March 2023. A second American leg followed short after until the end of July. In total, the tour featured 94 shows and is chronicled on Diving Deep Live.

Awards and nominations

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George Peabody Medal The George Peabody Medal, named in honor of George Peabody, is the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. The award was stablished in 1980, being presented annually to honor individuals who have made exception ...

, 2019 , Herself , Outstanding Contributions to Music , , , - ! scope="row", Glamour Awards , 1998 , Herself , Woman of the Year , , , - ! scope="row" rowspan=8,

Grammy Awards The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious a ...

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Best Alternative Music Album The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums in the alternative genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Ho ...

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1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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Bliss BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later. Since then, C ...

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2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

, '' Strange Little Girls'' , , - , " Strange Little Girl" , Best Female Rock Vocal Performance , , - ! scope="row",

Hollywood Music in Media Awards The Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) is an award organization honoring original music (Song and Score) in all forms visual media including film, TV, video games, trailers, commercial advertisements, documentaries, music videos and special p ...

, 2016 , "Flicker" , Best Original Song in a Documentary , , , - ! scope="row", Hungarian Music Awards , 2010 , '' Abnormally Attracted to Sin'' , Best Foreign Alternative Album , , , - ! scope="row",

MTV Europe Music Awards The MTV Europe Music Awards (originally named MTV European Music Awards, commonly abbreviated as MTV EMA) are awards presented by Paramount International Networks to honour artists and music in pop culture. It was originally conceived as an al ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

, Herself , Best Female , , , - ! scope="row" rowspan=4,

MTV Video Music Awards The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category ...

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1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

, rowspan=4, " Silent All These Years" , Best Female Video , , rowspan=4, , - , Best New Artist in a Video , , - , Breakthrough Video , , - , Best Cinematography in a Video , , - ! scope="row" rowspan=3, MVPA Awards , 2000 , " 1000 Oceans" , Adult Contemporary Video of the Year , , , - , rowspan=2, 2002 , rowspan=2, " Strange Little Girl" , Alternative Video of the Year , , rowspan=2, , - , Colorist/Telecine , , - !scope="row", Music Week Women in Music , 2024 , Herself , Inspirational Artist , , , - ! scope="row",

NME Awards The ''NME'' Awards is an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, founded by the music magazine ''NME'' (''New Musical Express''). The first awards show was held in 1953 as the ''NME'' Poll Winners Concerts, shortly after the founding o ...

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North Carolina Music Hall of Fame The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization and museum in Kannapolis, North Carolina that was created to honor musicians, composers and artists with ties to North Carolina that have made significant impact in the music indu ...

, 2012 , Herself , Inducted , , , - ! scope="row" rowspan=5, Pollstar Concert Industry Awards , rowspan=2, 1993 , rowspan=2, ''Little Earthquakes Tour'' , Best New Rock Artist , , rowspan=2, , - , Club Tour Of The Year , , - , 1995 , ''Under the Pink Tour'' , rowspan=3, Small Hall Tour Of The Year , , , - , 1997 , ''Dew Drop Inn Tour'' , , , - , 1999 , '' 5 ½ Weeks Tour'' , , , - ! scope="row",

Q Awards The Q Awards were the UK's annual music awards run by the music magazine '' Q''. Since they began in 1990, the Q Awards became one of Britain's biggest and best publicised music awards. Locations for the awards ceremony included Abbey Road Studios ...

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WhatsOnStage Awards The WhatsOnStage Awards (WOS Awards), formerly known as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com. The awards celebrate outstanding achievements in UK theatre, with categories covering both regional p ...

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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

, rowspan=2, '' The Light Princess'' , Best New Musical , , rowspan=2, , - , Best London Newcomer of the Year , , - ! scope="row", Žebřík Music Awards , 2001 , Herself , Best International Female , , * 1999: Spin Readers' Poll Awards (Won) On May 21, 2020, Amos was invited to and gave special remarks at her alma mater

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

's 2020 Commencement ceremony. Other notable guest speakers during the virtual ceremony included Reddit co-founder and commencement speaker

Alexis Ohanian Alexis Kerry Ohanian (; born April 24, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and former executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz. He also ...

; philanthropist and former New York City Mayor

Michael Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., and was its CEO from 1981 to 2001 and again from 2014 to 2023. He served as the 108th mayo ...

;

Anthony Fauci Anthony Stephen Fauci ( ; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical ...

, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading member of the

White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest (Washington, D.C.), NW in Washington, D.C., it has served as the residence of every U.S. president ...

Coronavirus Task Force; and senior class president Pavan Patel.

Film appearances

Amos appears as a wedding singer in the film '' Mona Lisa Smile''. She had previously auditioned for a role as a member of Beverly's band, Cherry Bomb, in the 1986 film ''

Howard the Duck Howard the Duck is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Steve Gerber, based very loosely on his college friend Howard Tockman, and artist Val Mayerik. Howard the Duck firs ...

''. Amos performed a cover of

R.E.M. R.E.M. was an American alternative rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. One of the fir ...

's " Losing My Religion", as well as the original song "Butterfly", for the soundtrack of

John Singleton John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 April 28, 2019) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film debut writing and directing '' Boyz n the Hood'' (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for ...

's 1995 film ''

Higher Learning Tertiary education (higher education, or post-secondary education) is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank defines tertiary education as including universities, colleges, and vocational schools ...

''. Her song "Talula" was featured in the epic disaster film ''

Twister Twister most commonly refers to a tornado. Twister or Twisters may also refer to: Aviation * Pipistrel Twister, a Slovenian ultralight trike * Silence Twister, a German homebuilt aircraft design * Wings of Change Twister, an Austrian paragli ...

'' (1996). " Professional Widow" was featured in the action film '' Escape from L.A.'' (1996). "Siren" was featured in the romantic drama ''

Great Expectations ''Great Expectations'' is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after ''Dav ...

'' (1998). The songs "'Murder' He Says" and "You Belong To Me" were featured in the films ''Mona Lisa Smile'' (2003). "Flicker" was featured in the film '' Audrie & Daisy'' (2016). Numerous songs of hers have been included in television series soundtracks. Some examples include: *"

" in American adult animated series ''

Beavis and Butt-Head ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' is an American Adult animation, adult animated Animated sitcom, sitcom created by Mike Judge. The series follows Beavis and Butt-Head, both voiced by Judge, a pair of teenage slackers characterized by their apathy, Stupi ...

'' (season 3, episode 31, 1994) *"

" in American adult animated series ''

'' (season 5, episode 7, 1994) *"Lust" in fantasy, drama television series ''

Charmed ''Charmed'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company Spelling Television, with Brad Kern serving as showrunner. The series was originally broadc ...

'' (season 2, episode 12, 1998) *"Northern Lad" in teen drama television series ''

Dawson's Creek ''Dawson's Creek'' is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college. It aired from January 20, 19 ...

'' (season 2, episode 4, 1998) *" A Sorta Fairytale" in drama television series '' Everwood'' (season 4, episode 16, 2002) *"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in crime procedures comedy-drama television series ''

Bones A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals. Bones protect the various other organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells, store minerals, provide structure and support for the body, an ...

'' (season 1, episode 9, 2005) and in science fiction television series '' Roswell'' (season 3, episode 9, 1999) *"Precious Things" in comedy-drama television series ''

Hindsight Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they were. After an event has occurred, people often believe ...

'' (season 1, episode 6, 2015) *" Pretty Good Year" in television series ''Casual'' (season 3, episode 12, 2015) *"A Nightingale Song in Berkeley Square" in fantasy comedy television series '' Good Omens'' (season 1, episode 6, 2019) *" Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)" in Netflix drama thriller series '' White Lines'' (season 1, episode 9, 2020), in '' Derry Girls'' (season 3, episode 4, "The Haunting", 2018) and '' Love Island'' (season 5, episode 14, 2015) *"

" in anthology comedy-drama television series ''

High Maintenance ''High Maintenance'' is an American anthology comedy-drama television and web series created by ex-husband and wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld. The show follows The Guy, a cannabis courier (played by Sinclair), as he delivers his p ...

'' (season 4, episode 8, 2016) *" Raspberry Swirl" in the television series ''The End'' (season 1, episode 9, 2020) *" 1000 Oceans" in mystery teen drama television series ''

Pretty Little Liars ''Pretty Little Liars'' is an American Mystery fiction, mystery teen drama television series created by I. Marlene King, which aired on Freeform (TV channel), Freeform from June 8, 2010 to June 27, 2017, based on the novel series Pretty Little L ...

'' (season 1, episode 10, 2022) *"

" in ''Conversations with Friends'' (season 1, episode 10, 2022), in drama television series '' YellowJackets'' (season 2, episode 1, 2023) and in comedy drama series ''

Beef Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle (''Bos taurus''). Beef can be prepared in various ways; Cut of beef, cuts are often used for steak, which can be cooked to varying degrees of doneness, while trimmings are often Ground beef, grou ...

'' (season 1, episode 2, 2023) *" Bells for Her" in drama television series '' Yellowjackets'' (season 2, episode 3, 2023) “Little Earthquakes” in American adult animation series Rick & Morty (season 8, episode 3, 2025)

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