Tori Amos' voice changed after menopause
Tori Amos can no longer sing in the same register because her voice changed during the menopause.
Tori Amos' voice has changed
The Professional Widow star, 62, has revealed she started struggling to hit high notes due to the "hormonal changes" she underwent but she's determined to adapt and embrace her new lower vocals.
She told The Times newspaper: "I’m on the other side of it [menopause] - a chill hottie ... I’ve had to come to terms ... with the fact that through hormonal changes my range has changed. I said to myself, you adapt or you collapse."
In the interview, Tori - who splits her time between Florida in the US and her adopted home of Cornwall in the south west of England - also joked that can't step away from music because she's not trained to do anything else.
She told the publication: "I can’t do a whole lot. I’m virtually unemployable. Some of the builders that have been building the rehearsal shed [at her home in Cornwall], they can do all kinds of things. [And her husband sound engineer Mark Hawley is] very practical."
Tori is set to release a new album - In Times of Dragons - next month and it features guest vocals from her 25-year-old daughter Natashya, who recently graduated from law school.
It comes after Tori previously revealed she penned her first song when she was just three years old and taught herself to play the piano - insisting her musical abilities have always been as natural to her as breathing.
She told Reader's Digest magazine: "No one taught me how to play the piano. It’s just something I was able to do from a young age.
"Somehow I sat at the keyboard and I was playing it, without knowing why or how.
"People would act surprised, like, ‘What’s happening?’ but when you’re a child and you can do something, you don’t think, ‘How did that happen?’
"I must have been two-and-a-half when I started and I never questioned it. I wrote my first song when I was three. I can’t recall what it was called or what it was about but writing and playing were like breathing to me."
