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Tori Amos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4623 words) |
 | Amos led an influx of confessional female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and is noteworthy as one of the few modern popular music stars to utilize a piano as her primary instrument. |
 | According to Amos, they felt their power had been challenged and intentionally would do as little as they could do (legally speaking) to promote the works so that her career would be decimated by the time she had a chance to switch to a new label. |
 | Amos has commented on a variety of roles from this era that she auditioned for but did not receive; notably she was offered the role played by Lea Thompson in the notorious flop Howard the Duck, but the offer was retracted when Thompson expressed interest. |
| PAPERMAG >> AMOS POE (476 words) |
 | Poe's modesty aside, Just An American Boy is indeed a riveting and complex picture of a man and a nation at a crossroads. |
 | Through Earle, Poe reveals the solitary voice of dissent in a society cast in the repressive shadows of imperialist rage and revenge. |
 | Amos Poe not only understands this fundamental difference. |