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Tori Amos ( born Myra Ellen Amos ; August 22, 1963 ) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer.

She is a classically trained musician and possesses a mezzo-soprano vocal range.

Amos originally served as the lead singer of 1980s synthpop group Y Kant Tori Read, and as a solo artist was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s.

She was also noteworthy early in her solo career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument.

Some of her charting singles include " Crucify ", " Silent All These Years ", " God ", " Cornflake Girl ", " Caught a Lite Sneeze ", " Professional Widow ", " Spark ", " 1000 Oceans ", and " A Sorta Fairytale ", her most commercially successful single in the U. S. to date.