The greatest rock singer of the' 80s and' 90s?

Tori Amos accepted the music enlightenment very early, and she was different from others since she was a child. From a music freak to a crazy young man with heavy metal rock, and then to a music elf with red hair, Tori Amos's true feelings in piano art, vocabulary and singing, such as the insight and creativity of "Grinch", really have his own independent appearance.

1963 Born in North Carolina on August 22nd, Amos grew up in a pastor's family in Maryland. She began to touch the piano at the age of two and a half. Although she couldn't step on the pedal, she still looked at her brother and sister and recorded the melody with her ears. At the age of four, she played and sang the piano in the church choir. Her musical instrument talent as a child led her to apply for a scholarship to enter the Papeete Music School in Baltimore at the age of five. As the youngest student in the school, she has a strange sense of rhythm. When she was a child, she was invited to play for parties from time to time. At the age of ten, the school expelled her because she couldn't stand the subversion of traditional classical piano interpretation. She left school with confusion and anger. She began to draw energy from rock music such as led zeppelin, The Beatles and jimi hendrix, and decided to take it seriously.

/kloc-in the autumn of 0/980, Amos released a single "Baltimore" co-written with his brother, which praised his hometown baseball team, the Orioles, and was praised by the mayor. 1983, she moved to San Francisco. When the British new wave invaded the American music scene, she began to shift her eyes from the piano to other musical instruments and her own singing characteristics. 1984 One night in Los Angeles, Amos experienced the worst nightmare of her life. She was raped by a fan while hitchhiking, and was later threatened with death. For a time, Amos refused to mention this terrible experience again, and even stopped her music creation.

1987 signed a contract with Atlanta Music Factory, and the album "Y Cantory Reading" published every other year in the name of self-organized band Y Cantory Reading vented heavy metal rock firepower. Although the album sank into the sea, the record company did not lose confidence in Amos. 1990 took off his rock leather coat and turned to piano creation as the main axis. At the suggestion of Doug Morris, the president of Atlantic Company at that time, she was sent to London to explore the market, and published EP Me and a Gun in 9 1 year. The club's resident singing has won applause from many fans and critics. The single "Me and a Gun" in EP is after watching the movie "thelma and louise" (Thelma &; Louise)(& amp； Louise), who bravely faced her rape trauma with her singing voice, Amos further established the National Network of Rape, Abuse and Incest (RAINN for short) to connect with the local rape crisis center and provide assistance to victims of sexual assault.

In the winter of September12008, the first album "Small Earthquake" ranked in the British gold list 14, and the single "Silent Years" was nominated for the MTV Music Video Award for Best Female Singer, Newcomer, Creativity and Photography. Amos, through China and other works, created the true confession emotion of singing and piano sound. 1992, EP's Cross challenged Nirvana's masterpiece The Taste of Juvenile Spirit, Led Zeppelin's classic Thank You and the Rolling Stones' signature Angel.

10 single, which won gold medals in Britain in 1994, has established the leading position of emotional female voice. In this album with the theme of violence between women, the emotional interaction between men and women, sexual aversion, sexual openness and the disintegration of religious society are all touched. A song "God" also puts forward the bold view that God needs women to take care of it, and trent reznor, the core figure of Nine Inch Nails, is also "Carrying on the Family", and the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for "Best Alternative Singing" for the first time.

The breakup with Eric Rosse, the producer's boyfriend of the first two albums, made Amos' 96 album Boys For Pele the first personally produced Hawaiian volcano goddess Pele to challenge men's emotions. A photo of Amos holding a suckling pig on the inside page of the album has caused many controversial topics, and the album has even gone straight to the second place in the British and American pop album charts. After being remixed by Armand Van Helden, the album "Professional Widow" jumped to the top of the British charts in the second year, and the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for "Best Alternative Singing". 1996, EP "Hey, Jupiter" was released, and she perfectly interpreted the classic "Somewhere above the Rainbow". 1997, she took time to sing an episode for the movie Great Expectations.

In the face of the impact of abortion, the album "From Choir Girl Hotel" released in the spring of 1998 can be heard that Amos grasped the precious realization of having a living body before abortion and explained the meaning of gestating and embracing life, which is her most unique singing. The original piano and self-emotion are more from the sound of rock music, and the album reached the fifth place in the national pop album list in the first week. In March of the same year, Amos married British sound engineer Mark Holly. After the album was released, the tour began. Amos brought electronic instruments to the concert for the first time, and won Grammy awards for "Best Rock Female Singer" ("Raspberry Vortex") and "Best Alternative Singing" the following year. 1999 released the double CD album "To Venus and the Return", which is a combination of live singing and new creation during "From the Choir Maid Hotel". The use of electronic instruments and strings has given emotional timbre different situational spaces, and the album jumped to 12 in the United States, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for "Best Alternative Singing Method". Three albums "Small Earthquake" and "From Choir Girl Hotel to Venus and Back" were highly praised by Rolling Stone magazine and Q magazine.

After singing Carnvial for M:I2 Mission Impossible 2 in 2000, the album Strange Little Girl was released in September of 20001. Amos performed a subversive concept album. By covering the songs of male singers' bands and role-playing, he infiltrated men's point of view and demanded men to be responsible for their creative emotions quite strictly. Through the shocking arrangement situation, she showed the violence at the bottom of rap punk Eminem's vivid song "Bonnie and Clyde 97", mourned for the women who were coerced by violence, and condemned the irresponsible attitude of joke creation. Amos also asked the daughter who killed her mother in Bonnie and Clyde' 97 to join the British group of 1982' s best-selling song Strange Little Girl. In order to give vent to Afghan women who have been oppressed by religion for a long time, Amos turned into a French rebel woman in Slayer's "blood shed" song, and did not hesitate to use magic to resist authority. By the 90-year-old work Enjoying Silence in Depesh's mode, Amos has become an older actress, staring at the sly corner with maternal care, while the Rattlesnake by Lloyd Cole and the Commando reflects the helpless dream of a happy woman. 10 cc chorus "I'm not in love" turned into a materialized girl and finished the only true love adventure in my life. Neil young's popular "Heart of Gold" has become a twin sister who plays with the tactics of business tycoons. Boomotown Rat orchestra wrote "I don't like Mondays" 20 years ago to describe children shooting on campus for no reason. Compared with the violent incidents in American schools in recent years, people feel the infinite arrogance of the shadow of violence. Even the Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun" cleverly became the motive for the assassination of John Lennon, and Amos became the call girl who was together before the murder.

Every creation brings different emotional attitudes, and the auditory experience brought by Dolly Amos' singing is more and more elusive as the emotions in life.

1987: "You don't understand"

Tori's earliest album was criticized as soon as it was born.

I can't recommend it because I haven't heard of it. Sorry ~ ~:)

199 1: Small Earthquakes

Recommended tracks: silence for so many years, winter, girl, China, cornflake girl ... ...

I like Tori's album best ~ the first classic!

1994: Under Pink

Recommended tracks: bells ringing for her, beautiful years, God, past mission.

Bailey's boy

Recommended tracks: Agent Orange, Professional Widow, Blood Rose, All the Way Down.

1998: From Choir Girls Hotel

Recommended tracks: Spark, Cruelty, She is Your Cocaine, Pandora's Aquarium.

1999: Go to Venus and come back (double CD, new song+featured)

Recommended tracks: Elysium, Precious Things, 1000 Ocean, Space Dog.

200 1: Strange Little Girl

Recommended track: Enjoy the silence, 97' Bonnie &；; Clyde, time, I don't like Monday, strange little girl, happiness is a warm gun.

Like "Small Earthquake" ten years ago, this is also a rare classic album, the same first classic, Tori's masterpiece in the middle and late period!

2002: Scarlett's Walk

Recommended tracks: Amber Waves, A Fairy Tale, Another Girl's Paradise, A Scarlet Walk and Gold Powder.

2003: The Story of the Library —— The Collection of theuer Amos.

This is an anthology, which contains some classic works of Tori's above albums, and the recommended tracks are omitted.

2005: The Beekeeper

Recommended tracks: beekeeper, toast

A new album in 2005, the masterpiece "No more sad singing"