Pianist/songwriter Myra Ellen Amos attended Peabody Conservatory of Music as a pre-teen. She later relocated to the D.C. area where she attended Richard Montgomery High School and started playing music in local piano bars. Her first record “Baltimore” was written in 1978 for a competition in conjunction with a promotion for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. The song was released on a split single with Contraband. It was later released on her independent label M.E.A. (her initials). 500 copies of the single were pressed.
By her early 20s she changed her name to Tori and moved to Los Angeles in hopes of furthering her musical career. After some commercial ad work, she met and teamed up with guitarist/writer/producer Steve Caton thus beginning her prolific recording career.
Tori Amos discography:
Ellin Amos / Contraband:
1978 Music Bank 7801 Baltimore / It’s A Happy Day
Ellen Amos:
1980 M.E.A. Baltimore / Walking with You
As Tori Amos:
1988(CD) Atlantic Y Kant Tori Read
1992(CD) Atlantic Little Earthquakes
1994(CD) Atlantic Under the Pink
1996(CD) Atlantic Boys for Pele
1998(CD) Atlantic From the Choirgirl Hotel
2000(CD) Atlantic To Venus and Back
2001(CD) Atlantic Strange Little Girls
2002(CD) Epic Scarlet’s Walk
2003(CD) Atlantic Tales of a Librarian
2004(CD) Epic Welcome to Sunny Florida
