Before she became the Cornflake Girl, Tori Amos made her TV debut starring in a commercial for Kellogg's Just Right cereal. To get her face on the box, Amos beat out a few other actresses, one of them reportedly being the equally unknown Sarah Jessica Parker.
She started playing the piano at 2 years of age. At age 5, she won a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, becoming the youngest person ever admitted. By the time she was 11, the school ousted her for suggesting they add contemporary music to the curriculum.
At 17, she changed her name to Tori Amos. Her name given at birth was Myra Ellen Amos. She nearly called herself Sammy Jaye until a friend's new boyfriend christened her Tori. "Then of course I found that it meant 'little chicken' in Japanese," she told Q magazine.
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