From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #102 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Thursday, April 8 1999 Volume 04 : Number 102 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Help with a Tori Project!! *CAUTION - lengthy e-mail!* ["*ShaDy FeLiNE*" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:04:33 PDT From: "*ShaDy FeLiNE*" Subject: Help with a Tori Project!! *CAUTION - lengthy e-mail!* hi guys, we're all wonderful people here, so i am hoping someone could help me out..... i am doing a project on Leaders of the Twentieth Century, and i of course picked Tori, it took me a few days of good solid argument to let me teacher allow me to do my project on tori, and i really need to, for lack of a better phrase, knock their socks off! i am out of ideas, having (i believe) covered the basics, but i don't think that it will be long enough, i have also been having a hard time with life right now (a very hard breakup with the love of my young, young life, news of cancer in the family, friends dying....all within two weeks.), and i haven't been able to concentrate completely.. ....i was hoping that basically anyone who is knowledge-able could add some things, or help me change some things...this is due Friday, so any help offered would be GREATLY appreciated (i'll love your forever oh please please please!!!) here is what i've got so far: I. Thesis - Tori Amos is important to the Twentieth Century because of her ability to not only open doors in the musical and rape survivor worlds, but to tear them off of their hinges and beacon others through with her. A. General Background Information 1. Born 22 August, 1963 to a homemaker and minister in Newton, North Carolina. 2. Given name Myra Ellen Amos. B. Early Events Which Led to Interest in Field 1. Began playing piano by ear at the age of 2 2. Auditioned for and was granted scholarship to Baltimore's prestigious Peabody Conservatory. At five she was the youngest ever admitted there. 3. Also at age five, Tori brought her father one of her older brother Mike's Beatles albums and announced that this was what she was going to do. Needless to say, the minister was not happy. "I took an album to my father...it was a Beatles album...and I showed him the pictures. and I said "daddy, this is what I'm going to do" and he said "moma....mo-momaa" I was five." 4. Kicked out at age 11 for playing her own versions of classical pieces. 5. Age 14 Tori began playing piano in bars with her father as a chaperone. C. Progress in Area of Expertise 1. Around Christmas 1985 Tori was brutally assualted and nearly raped, an encounter that she carried with her for quite a time. 2. Tori goes within herself to write an assortment of "girl-and-a-piano" type songs with deeply personal lyrics - these songs became "Little Earthquakes" released in 1992. LE included "Silent All These Years" and "Me and a Gun", both a type of dealing with her rape. 3. Her third album "Under the Pink" is released in 1993 4. 21 June, 1994 - Tori is presented with a visionary award from the Washington D.C. Rape Crisis Center for her "significant work that brings us closer to a world free from all forms of opression and sexual violence". 5. Tori founds RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network), one of the first foundations of it's kind, because of the overwhelming cries for help she was recieving in the mail and at shows from young women in suffering. She remains a spokesperson to this day. 6. Awarded a Governer's Citation on 22 July, 1994 from the State of Maryland in recognition of "the talent, initiative and dedication...demonstrated in..efforts to help increase public awareness of the need for a world free from sexual abuse and violence [and] in honour of launching the RAINN-24 Hour Sexual Assault Hotline.." 7. Tori expands her style with her fourth album "Boys For Pele", in which she incorporates the talents of other musicians and harpsichords. thank you all again for putting up with my bullshit, i'm sorry for bothering anyone who didn't want to read this, but i feel that i cannot do tori justice without the help of my tori brothers and sisters! i love you all, thanks again and again!!! love and faith in tori who brings me hope and tears and joy with her every breath, !amY __________________________________*__________________________________ * birds fly over the rainbow....why....oh, why can't i? - Tori Amos Somewhere Over the Rainbow * one day, i am going to grow wings, a chemical reaction, hysterical and useless, hysterical and.... - Thom Yorke of Radiohead in Let Down __________________________________*__________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. 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