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[[Image:Toriamos.jpg|thumb|Tori Amos]]
'''Tori Amos''' (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American singer/songwriter and vocalist known for her unique and proficient style of piano playing, as well as for her intimate brand of songwriting. Amos has released 9 solo many studio albums and numerous B-sides to date, and has gathered a notoriously devoted following due to her eccentric personality and intense live shows.
==Career==
For many though, much was riding on Amos' ninth album ''American Doll Posse'', released on May 1, 2007. This album was also based around a concept—Amos believed that too many American woman were pushed into boring or simple stereotypes (such as the "knickerless flirt" or the "career bitch"), and so wanted to create "new ones" where the women were much more interesting or empowered and so forth. Thus five women sing the 23 tracks on the album, based on the Greek pantheon: Santa/Aphrodite who is very sensual, Pip/Athena who is brutally confrontational, Isabel/Artemis who is an unbiased chronicler, Clyde/Persephone who is introspectively compassionate, and Tori/Demeter/Dionysus who was viewed as a stylized version of the artist herself. The record was greatly influenced lyrically and musically by the rock gods of the seventies, and many fans thought it was a return to edge for Amos, as did critics, praising it as one of her most accessible and fun LP's. This was her last record for Epic.
On May 30, 2008, the online Amos community discovered that the singer was no longer listed on Epic's official site. A user's question regarding this was officially addressed on Billboard's website, stating that Amos was now independent and planning on exploring the subsequent opportunities. A message from Amos regarding this was later posted on her official site, with hints at coming news in the future. Amos is currently slated to headline the Dranouter music festival this August, and will be attending the San Diego ComiCon to promote her new anthology, ''Comic Book Tattoo,'' a nearly 500 page book containing over 50 comics by over 80 artists, each based on one of her songs, was released later in 2008. A DVD for the ''American Doll Posse'' tour, entitled ''The book Road Chronicles'', is forwarded by Neil Gaimanslated for a late 2009 release.
===Other work/miscellaneous===
*''The Beekeeper'' (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)
===EPs/Singles===
She said she knew what my books did not
I thought she knew what's up
Past the mission, behind the prison tower
Past the mission, I once knew a hot girl
Past the mission, they're closing every hour
Past the mission and I smell the roses
She said they all think they know him well
She knew him better, better, better
Well I did too, but I shut my mouth
And he just gave me a smile
Past the mission, behind the prison tower
Past the mission, I once knew a hot girl
Past the mission and I smell the roses
Past the mission and I smell the roses
Hey, they found a body
Not sure it was his, still they're using his name
Somewhere I know she knows
Somethings only she knows
Past the mission, behind the prison tower
Past the mission, I once knew a hot girl
Past the mission, they're closing every hour
Past the mission and I smell the roses
Past the mission, behind the prison tower
Past the mission, I once knew a hot girl