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People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Newton
North Carolina
Myra Ellen Amos
Ari Tomos
Ellen Amos
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