Tori Amos

Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963 in Newton, North Carolina, USA) is an American singer-songwriter.

Fans

Tori Amos' fan base began building as soon as her first solo album was released. The tour to promote that album, Little Earthquakes, stunned audiences all over the world, and left them wanting more. Her fan base remains one of the most devoted of any artist, and they overwhelmingly report on how kind and generous she is when meeting in person. Many persons outside of Amos' fanbase perceive her fans to be overwhelmingly devoted to the point of sociopathy, something that has been commented on by the media and towards which Amos has responded alternately with ire or acknowledgement. In particular there is an infamous interview with an Austrailian radio station during which Amos turns overtly hostile towards her interviewer when he refers to her fans as zealots.

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Tori refers to her fans as "ears with feet,"and has been quoted as saying "don't ever call yourself fans; you're ears with feet". (source: http://groups.msn.com/ToriSpeak/tourinfo.msnw). Amos coined this term circa 1996 and has since abandoned it, consistently referring to fans as simply "fans" during press in 2005; said fans still hold onto the term devoutly, however.

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1996 - 2005

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Despite arguably fading commercial popularity, Amos remains one of the world's top touring artists and her tours regularly sell out. She was responsible for one of the world's highest-grossing tours in 2002-03 and her fans remain devoted and interested in her new music. When her 2005 tour was announced, tickets sold out for all 14 concerts on the opening US leg in under 10 minutes. Despite equally successful spring and summer tours in Australia and Europe, her 2005 Summer of Sin tour has only seen two concerts (Boston and Houston) sell out, the rest of which did not due to large venues being booked in preparation for a band tour à la Scarlet's Walk, which never happened.

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