 She is listed on VH1's 1999 "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" at #71.Amos is the third child of Mary Ellen (Copeland) and Edison McKinley Amos.She was born at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina, during a trip from their Georgetown home in Washington, D.C. Amos has claimed that her maternal grandparents each had an Eastern Cherokee grandparent of their own.