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Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. Amos originally served as the lead singer of 1980s synthpop group Y Kant Tori Read, and as a solo artist was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s. She was also noteworthy early in her solo career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date.
As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 8 Grammy Awards. Amos was also named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1996.
Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. In 1972, The Amos family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, where her father, Reverend Edison Amos, became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. At the age of 13 she began playing at gay bars and piano bars, chaperoned by her father.
Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk (born (1971-12-16)16 December 1971) is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer. One of the first true Superstar DJs, Paul van Dyk was one of the first artists to receive a Grammy nomination in the newly added category of Best Dance/Electronic album for his 2004 release Reflections. He was named the World's No. 1 DJ in both 2005 and 2006, something less than a handful of DJs have ever achieved. Paul van Dyk is the only DJ to hold a spot in the World's Top 10 DJs since 1998. He is also the first DJ to be named No. 1 by Mixmag in 2005. As of 2007, he has sold over 4.5 million albums worldwide.
A trance producer starting in the early 1990s, Paul quickly achieved popularity with his remix of "Love Stimulation" by Humate under the record label MFS in 1993, and with his hit single, "For an Angel", but in recent times he no longer likes to describe his music as trance, but rather simply as electronic dance music.
All dressed up you're good to go
Checkin your style from head to toe
Hooked up and natural
You're feeling beautiful
9 times outta 10 you know
Late night club like a video, with the hot stuff- top stuff- we got stuff oh
What a night (night), so far (far)
Pulling up curb side in your car (your car)
What a sight (sight), you are (are)
Think I know somewhere we can park
After dark
System up with the top down
Got the city on the lock down
Drive by in the low ride
Hands high when we fly by
System up with the top down
Got the city on the lock down
Drive by in the low ride
Hands high when we fly by (5x)
Girl it's time to let you know
I'm down if you wanna go
We can take it nice and slow
We got until tomorrow
UK Style UK flow
We got you hot like whoa
With the hot stuff top stuff (yo) we got stuff oh
What a night (night), so far (far)
Pulling up curb side in your car (your car)
What a sight (sight), you are (are)
Think I know somewhere we can park
After dark
System up with the top down
Got the city on the lock down
Drive by in the low ride
Hands high when we fly by
System up with the top down
Got the city on the lock down
Drive by in the slow ride
Hands high when we fly by (5x)
I'll tell you this for a fact, fact
A lot of ladies step up on a fat track
Leave your fella in the corner
With his starter cap
Show me how to act
Show me love, where you at?
What a night, so far
Pulling up curb side in your car
What a sight, you are
Think I know somewhere we can park
After dark
System up with the top down
Got the city on the lock down
Drive by in the slow ride
Hands high when we fly by
System up with the top down (top down)
Got the city on the lock down (lock down)
Drive by in the slow ride
Hands high when we fly by
(After daaaaaaark)
System up with the top down
Got the city on the lock down
Drive by in the slow ride
Hands high when we fly by (we fly by)
System up with the top down
Got the city on the lock down
Drive by in the slow ride