
Tori Amos was born Myra Ellen Amos in 1963. She was two and a half when she first sat at a piano, and only five when she began writing instrumental compositions. She composed her first song when she was nine.
At the age of seven she won a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she was the youngest student by a long way. The scholarship was revoked when she was eleven, however, as by that time she was more interested in rock and pop than classical music and could not fully master reading music. Two years later she resumed her studies at Montgomery College and played at piano bars whilst her father touted her demo cassettes around record companies.
Amos first came to wider public attention in the Washington D.C. area in 1977 when she won a local talent competition with her song More Than Just A Friend. She won several notable talent prizes – for both singing and acting – while still a pupil at Richard Montgomery High School, and when she left school she and her brother entered a competition with the song Baltimore they had written and composed together, and won. Baltimore became the Amos’s first single, privately pressed and distributed amongst her family and friends. On the B side was another Amos composition, Walking With You. It was around this time she took the name Tori, as a friend had said her face looked more like a Tori than a Myra Ellen.
Amos became one of the most popular female singer-songwriters of the 1990’s, and yet stood out from her peers because she was one of the first to use a piano as her main instrument of accompaniment. Her songs were marked by pronounced lyricism and emotional intensity, and dealt with everything from sexuality and religion to personal tragedy and patriarchy. Her hit singles include Crucify, Silent All These Years, Cornflake Girl, Caught a Lite Sneeze, Professional Widow, God, Playboy Mommy and A Sorta Fairytale.
Amos has a strong personal following and has sold over 12 million records, despite not really being a typical hit parade artist. She has also gained a certain notoriety from the frank answers she occasionally gives in interviews, but her fans might argue this cocking a snook at the establishment is no less than what might be expected from an individualist and artist like she is.
She is married to the British recording engineer Mark Hawley and their daughter Natashya “Tash” Lórien Hawley was born in 2000.
Amos has been nominated for nine Grammy awards:
1994 Best Alternative Music Performance (Under The Pink)
1996 Best Alternative Music Performance (Boys for Pele)
1998 Best Alternative Music Performance (From the Choirgirl Hotel)
1998 Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (Raspberry Swirl)
1999 Best Alternative Music Performance (To Venus and Back)
1999 Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (Bliss)
2001 Best Alternative Music Performance (Strange Little Girl)
2001 Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (Strange Little Girl)
2003 Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package (Scarlet’s Walk)
Several biographies of her have been published, as have collections of her songs and lyrics.

source: http://www.budapestinfo.hu/en/calendar_of_events/tori_amos_concert