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Myra Ellen (Tori) Amos (Newton (North Carolina), 22 augustus 1963) is een Amerikaanse singer-songwriter en klassiek geschoolde pianiste. Begin jaren negentig breekt ze door met haar solo debuutalbum Little Earthquakes. Terugkerende thema’s in haar nummers zijn seksualiteit, politiek, mythologie, moederschap, feminisme en religie. Amos werd bekend in de jaren negentig en verkocht meer dan 20 miljoen cd's. In Nederland zijn haar bekendste nummers Cornflake Girl en Winter. In de VS is 'A Sorta Fairytale' haar grootste hit.

Amos is, sinds de oprichting in 1994, als spreekbuis en ambassadeur betrokken bij RAINN, een Amerikaanse organisatie die hulp biedt aan slachtoffers van seksueel geweld.

Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She had to leave at the age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination". Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop-rock group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion.

Her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", "Flavor" and "A Sorta Fairytale". Amos has received five MTV VMA nominations and eight Grammy Award nominations, and won an Echo Klassik award for her Night of Hunters classical crossover album. She is listed on VH1's 1999 "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" at number 71.