For more than 30 years, Tori Amos has been one of the most extraordinary artists of our time. Her voice and a piano - that's all the singer-songwriter needs for her incredibly intense music. Her way of singing and playing is simply unique. A Tori Amos song can be immediately identified as such on first hearing. Over her long career, she has released numerous studio albums, mostly at one- to two-year intervals, from "Little Earthquakes" (1992) and "From the Choirgirl Hotel" (1998) to "Scarlet's Walk" (2002) and "American Doll Posse" (2007) to "Native Invader" (2017) and "Ocean to Ocean" (2021).
"Crucify", "Cornflake Girl" and "Professional Widow (It's Got to Be Big)" are among the biggest hits of the US singer in this country, who has celebrated great successes since the beginning of her career, especially in her adopted country of the UK (apart from Cornwall, she also lives in sunny Florida). But if you want to immerse yourself in the musical universe of Tori Amos, you will always listen to her albums in full length. Already with her debut album "Little Earthquakes" she reached many listeners, thrilled music critics and reaped gold and platinum awards. A few years earlier, she and Matt Sorum, who later sat behind the drums with Guns N' Roses, were less successful with the project "Y Kant Tori Read". But once she had found herself as a solo artist, Tori Amos' career took off mightily in the nineties.
Tori Amos moves people
Tori Amos' songs, then as now, were and are of a very personal and extremely passionate nature. Not only through her highly original music, but also through her haunting performance and public appearance, the exceptional artist, born in North Carolina in 1963, stands out from the mainstream. What also distinguishes her is the courage to deviate from the usual and to realise her own musical visions. In 2009, for example, she surprised with "Midwinter Graces" - her interpretation of a Christmas album. This was followed by "Night Of Hunters" and the retrospective "Gold Dust", two works influenced by classical music, before Tori Amos returned to familiar musical territory with "Unrepentant Geraldines".
Tori Amos succeeds in the balancing act of remaining true to herself and yet being changeable. It goes without saying that in such an extensive discography, not one album sounds like the next. Tori's works are sometimes easily accessible, sometimes complex and progressive, as is the case with "Boys for Pele". "Ocean to Ocean", which tells of dealing with loss, impressively proves that the singer-songwriter still knows how to create grandiose music whose origins lie deep in her personality. And it proves that she still has the same power and charisma as in her "Under The Pink" days. Her concerts are also full of power, charisma, energy and passion. Tori Amos is blessed with the special gift of moving people through music - on record as well as live on stage.
