2.3 1996–2000: Boys for Pele, From the Choirgirl Hotel, and To Venus and Back.2.2 1990–1995: Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink.2.1 1979–1989: Career beginnings and Y Kant Tori Read.She is listed on VH1's 1999 '100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll' at number 71. Amos has received five MTV VMA nominations and eight Grammy Award nominations, and won an Echo Klassik award for her Night of Hunters classical crossover album. Her charting singles include ' Crucify', ' Silent All These Years', ' God', ' Cornflake Girl', ' Caught a Lite Sneeze', ' Professional Widow', ' Spark', ' 1000 Oceans', ' Flavor' and ' A Sorta Fairytale', her most commercially successful single in the U.S. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion. Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. She had to leave at the age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what Rolling Stone described as 'musical insubordination'. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.