People from Catawba County, North Carolina - People from Hickory, North Carolina, Tori Amos, Dale Jarrett, Morgan Shepherd, Rick Barnes (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: People from Hickory, North Carolina, Tori Amos, Dale Jarrett, Morgan Shepherd, Rick Barnes, Ned Jarrett, James Best, Andy Petree, Dennis Setzer, Chris Washburn, Cass Ballenger, Ryan Succop, Lance Sigmon, Shane Huffman, Matthew Settle, M. Hoke Smith, Andy Houston, J. B. Long, The Blue Sky Boys, Brad Knighton, Jon Reep, Tommy Houston, Charlie Frye, Justin Harper, E. Patrick Johnson, Kenneth Lamar Holland, Glenn Jarrett, Alonzo C. Shuford, Paul Burris, Ozzie Clay, David "Tex" Little, Robert Huffman. Excerpt: Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify," "Silent All These Years," "God," "Cornflake Girl," "Caught a Lite Sneeze," "Professional Widow," "Spark," "1000 Oceans," and "A Sorta Fairytale," her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards. Amos was also named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1996. Amos has also been recognized as one of the top live acts of all time by a Rolling Stone poll in 2003, in which she placed at #5. Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because o...