Tori Amos: Piece by Piece by Tori Amos, Ann Powers

By Tori Amos, Ann Powers

Written with acclaimed song journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos: Piece via Piece is a firsthand account of the main complex and intimate information of Amos’s existence as either a personal person and a really public acting musician. In passionate and informative prose, Amos explains how her songs come to her and the way she documents after which plays them for audiences far and wide, the entire whereas connecting with listeners the world over and protecting her family existence (which comprises elevating a tender daughter). however it can be even more, a verbal university made by means of powerful girl voices – and the voices of these closest to Amos—that calls upon family tree, fantasy, and folklore to specific Amos’s precise and engaging own heritage.

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By Tori Amos, Ann Powers

Written with acclaimed song journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos: Piece via Piece is a firsthand account of the main complex and intimate information of Amos’s existence as either a personal person and a really public acting musician. In passionate and informative prose, Amos explains how her songs come to her and the way she documents after which plays them for audiences far and wide, the entire whereas connecting with listeners the world over and protecting her family existence (which comprises elevating a tender daughter). however it can be even more, a verbal university made by means of powerful girl voices – and the voices of these closest to Amos—that calls upon family tree, fantasy, and folklore to specific Amos’s precise and engaging own heritage.

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