Tori biography

Disconnect on the Tori Eimos page on all the pages of the authors to preserve the biography-Tori Aimos American pianist, singer, composer, songwriter and feminist Tori Emos Emos Ellen Emos was born in the family of Methodist priest Dr. Edison Emos who had Franco Shottland roots and Mary Ellen, natives The southern states, in the veins of which the blood of the Indians of Cheroki flowed.

Tori inherited the love of nature, music and mysticism from her mother’s father, and her father’s relatives tried to educate the girl in strict, religious traditions, because of which the relations with her father’s grandmother were “stretched”. The Irish, and in our family, the Scots, you know what they - of course, have been ordinary family nonsense, but this is not a problem.

Although there was one person. I was five. She was and will always remain my most sworn enemy and my outcast person. This is my grandmother. My father's mother. I think she had already been made by a saint somewhere in the hills of the Appalachian mountains of Virginia between the bizarre crevice and Galax. Galaks is a place to collect scammers. I remember how at the age of five I walked and saw the sign "Akupunkuture and Chinese Medicine", and my grandmother issued a verdict that Chinese medicine was sent to us by the devil.

However, the girl did not renounce religion, or God, opposite her life and creativity are closely connected with this, but the daughter of the church does not blind her mind. From an early age, I saw how Christians are manipulated by people, manipulating the Epistle of Jesus, but I also know those who love people in the church walking the path of compassion. So I can’t completely free myself from Christian influence and I do not want to free myself from certain aspects - love the neighbor, as myself, from the idea of ​​resurrection - these aspects of the Epistle of Jesus.

Many follow these principles without practicing Christianity. I believe that the truth is that if Jesus was alive today, he would not be part of the Christian Church, because the hypocrisy is the center of the celebrations of many churches. Already in the first years of life, Tori began to independently select melodies for piano. I remember how I looked up at a large black piano from below.

It was old. Nearby stood a spinning chair, I remember how I put the telephone books on the floor, trying to climb it. I was two and a half. I sneaked in the piano, peered into it, preparing for the competition. I was not scared by him. I tried on him, and it was friendly. Thus began relations that seemed the most natural. At this age, you do not ask questions, however, however, it is like by itself, when certain things attract.

My family approved this, which was great. Teachers came to Aimos from everywhere: from the family, from the radio, from the earth itself. But Emos also achieved superiority in official musical training itself. At the age of five, she was listening and entered the preparatory school of the Pibodi Conservatory in Baltimore English. PEABODY CONSERVATORY Years spent in Pabod taught it to both discipline and disappointment.

People always threw themselves a phrase of a Wunderkind child, recalling my years in the Pibodi Conservatory, I was so small, I was five when I started to study there. At that time, parents, teachers and I myself assumed that I would continue to study and become a concert pianist. This is what you do while being in a similar place - you are not just playing, you are here to become a champion.

It is no different from gymnastic exercises with White Caroli: at a certain point you will crazy, doing this if you are not going to win, and if you do not justify hopes, you will become a teacher or just leave. I had difficulties in reading music. My hearing was good. I could play by ear, but I fought over the ability to read from the sheet. When I say this, I mean that I could read better than many, could consider Debussy or Bartuka, but not Chopin.

At eight years, I did not play an “exposure of fantasy”, and this was for quite young, soon it was necessary to play it, as well as other plays of this level. I knew that I could not compete with the best of this world, and the clock was ticking. In the previous three years, I was not criticized in accordance with age, and then suddenly it stopped. In the conservatory, I was looking for people who would be honest with me - other students, I knew that they marked me, just like my grandmother did it at home.

She knew that she was the reason for the disappointment, it was sad to lose the status of a girl, which delights everyone. I began to give people to understand that I love another type of music. I think I was ten when she said to one of the teachers: "What about John Lennon? Lennon and McCartney as modern mozzarts." It was just blasphemous.

The idea of ​​being a modern composer working in pop -speaking is no room. Years later, the university expanded its horizons and now, oddly enough, they have a program for modern music - they asked me to give lectures, so funny. I don’t know if I will do it, and if I do it well. It may be better to teach by your example. Nevertheless, there were other teachers: in the piano practice room in the salons, where she played another teenager.But one teacher - father - remained central.

Having left Pibodi Tori, at the insistence of her father and his own passion for music, in particular to modern, she continued to engage in intensely and compose a lot. About twelve years old began to show friends the songs that she composed. Even the talented teenager-composer of the County Montgomery with one of her songs won at the competition. From the age of fourteen, she began to speak in bars, many were askance at the fact that the father of the priest arranges the girl with a performance in gay bars, but Edison looked further, he perfectly understood that increased work would protect his daughter from everything that the teenager living in the city was prone to: alcohol, drugs, and adolescence.

One evening, when I played in a bar under the name "at Mr. Henry", someone went to my dad and asked: "How can you bring your daughter to a gay bar? There it became a victim of rape, which laid out a fingerprint on all her subsequent creativity. In the year, Tori Emos signed a contract with Atlantic Records and began to work on the first album, and no one could to expect that from the “pop-laut” the Y Kant Tori Read released, today's Tory Aimos will come out, as Tori herself admitted, at that time she sought to succeed at all costs and completely forgot about music, literally betrayed the piano, their loud failure sobered the girl, and spitting on the stamping of the “stupid girl” The same one entered the musical field, fixing its name with the song Me and a Gun, written under the impression of the film "Telma and Louise" and his own experiences and collected enthusiastic reviews by the Little EarthQuakes album.

Wendy Nelson is a girl from my school. She was just cool. She spoke all the time about a guy named Bruce Springstin and performed his songs behind the piano. Later, when people say: “It must have been inspired by Kate Bush in adolescence,” I honestly admit that I have never heard about her at that time. Wendy Nelson was my enthusiasm. Further, Tory’s musical career went smoothly, each album was accepted on the “Hurray”, a devoted fan club was formed, with which Tori maintains warm relations, and many note how “in a family-owned” woman belongs to a fan, knows many by names and even asking about the health of their relatives.

Since February 22, Tori Aimos has been marriage with sound engineer Mark Hawley. Tori came to motherhood along a difficult and insidious road. Before giving birth to her daughter Natasha, she had to encounter physical restrictions, a duplicity that pops up on the surface of the "fertility industry", and the separation between the demanding world of pop and more cyclic needs to create a family.

You know, one journalist came up to me and told me what they said around - that I am a drug addict. I said: “What? I couldn’t be such that I was pregnant when I went on a tour with Alanis, what do you think? The growing up to motherhood gave Aimos the opportunity to think about music, love, loyalty and her own heritage. And together with the other artists of her generation, she is working on creating a new balance between the“ public sovereignty of creative self-expression in work and a “personal” education in education in education Realizing the unified nature of these aspirations, without any readiness to compromise, she offers a very individual point of view about a woman who came to herself: the Autobiographic book “Piece by Piece”, written by Emos in collaboration with journalist Anne Pauers.