question:  "Sleep to Dream" is a song written and recorded by an American alternative singer-songwriter who was classically trained on piano as a child and began composing her own songs when she was how old?
answer: 8 years old
context: Title: Johannes Schmoelling
  Passage: Johannes Schmoelling (Schmölling in German), born 9 November 1950 in Lohne, Germany) is a German musician and keyboard artist.  He was a member of the prolific electronic music group Tangerine Dream from 1979 to 1985.  A classically trained musician, he began playing piano at the age of eight.  By twelve he had begun playing the pipe organ and successfully mastered the instrument so well that he began to play professionally at various churches.  By 1978 Johannes had graduated from college with a degree in sound engineering and secured a job working on live theater performances at the prestigious Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin.  He ended his stint with Tangerine Dream at the end of 1985 to pursue a solo career and has produced several solo albums as well as soundtrack music for numerous German television programs.  In 2000 he created his own record label Viktoriapark records.
  Title: Fiona Apple
  Passage: Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter.  Classically trained on piano as a child, Apple began composing her own songs when she was 8 years old.  Her debut album, "Tidal", written when Apple was 17, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single "Criminal".  She followed with "When the Pawn..." (1999), produced by Jon Brion, which was also critically and commercially successful and was certified platinum.
  Title: Andrianary Ratianarivo
  Passage: Andrianary Ratianarivo (1895-1949) was a pianist and composer of "kalon'ny fahiny," "vakondrazana" and "ba-gasy" music from the central highlands of Madagascar.  He was a major composer for the Malagasy theatrical genre that reached its peak between 1920 and 1940 at the Theatre d'Isotry in Antananarivo.  Ratianarivo was born in the year of Madagascar's colonization to a musician of the royal palace.  His pieces were typically written for piano, often with solo, duet or choral vocal accompaniment sung in the Malagasy language.  He was classically trained as a conductor and composed over 500 songs and scores for theater, including an opera penned by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo entitled "Imaitsoanala" (1935), which remains the only Malagasy opera.  In 1929 he formed "Troupe Jeanette" in Antananarivo with musicians Rakaramanga and Jeanette; this group, with new artists, continues to perform at the Theatre d'Isotry to the present.  His songs form part of the canon of classical Malagasy piano music.  A street in downtown Antananarivo is named after him.
  Title: Alex Jacke
  Passage: Alex Jacke was born and raised in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA.  The singer and songwriter realized his passion for music as a child when he fell in love with 90's R&B and Hip Hop.  Jacke's music influences also include soul, funk, gospel, rock, and pop music.  Self-taught on the piano, he began composing songs by middle school.  By the time he started his freshman year at Morehouse College, he knew music was his future and he focused his energy on songwriting, & performing at school events and venues around Atlanta.  During his sophomore year, he appeared on the highly popular MTV series "My Super Sweet 16," as the special guest performer for DJ Spinderella and former NBA player, Kenny Anderson's daughter, Christy.  His performance caught the attention of music executive and producer, Laney Stewart, who invited Jacke to work with him over the summer.  Jacke jumped at the opportunity to pursue his dream, and left Morehouse College at the end of his junior year to return to Los Angeles.  Like others before him, most notably Tricky Stewart and The-Dream.  Laney Stewart took Alex Jacke under his wing which led Jacke to land a worldwide publishing deal with Music Gallery/Universal Music Publishing Group in 2011.  Along with Stewart and his production team The Sharpshootaz, Alex Jacke spent most of the first half of 2012 perfecting his debut EP, D.F.M. (Dorm Fuckin Music) released on July 9, 2012.  On Valentine's Day 2013, Alex released a "Deluxe" version of his D.F.M. release, simply titled "D.F.M. Deluxe."
  Title: Kate St John
  Passage: Kate St John is a composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist (oboe, cor anglais, accordion, saxophone and piano).  She was born in London in 1957 and was classically trained on oboe.  She gained a music degree at City University London.  Her first band was The Ravishing Beauties with Virginia Astley and Nicky Holland.  The trio joined The Teardrop Explodes in Liverpool during the winter of 1981 for a series of dates at a small clubs and a UK tour in early 1982.  During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a member of The Dream Academy with Nick Laird-Clowes and Gilbert Gabriel.  In 1985 they had a worldwide hit with "Life In A Northern Town" and produced three albums: "The Dream Academy" (1985), "Remembrance Days" (1987) and "A Different Kind Of Weather" (1990).  In the 1990s St. John was a member of Van Morrison's live band playing oboe and saxophone.  She played on 5 Van Morrison albums.  In 1994 she co-wrote and sang on 4 tracks with Roger Eno on the album "The Familiar" on the All Saints Label.  This led to the formation of Channel Light Vessel, a band with Kate, Roger Eno, Bill Nelson, Laraaji and Mayumi Tachibana.
  Title: Shadowboxer (song)
  Passage: "Shadowboxer" is a song written and performed by American alternative singer-songwriter Fiona Apple.  It was released on
  Title: Amy Clarke (musician)
  Passage: Amy Clarke (born 1976 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, experimental synth keyboardist, percussionist and activist.  Classically trained, she is known for mixing acoustic piano and contemporary electronics, and features her lyrics and vocals over rock, jazz, tribal, and world rhythms. With a powerful and wide range, Clarke can flow from a cappella to acoustic piano and eclectic percussion, blending complex rhythms.  She has been described as "accomplished" and "amazing."  Robert Leggett wrote that "after listening ... it is very difficult to just sit idly by - the listener is compelled to get involved."
  Title: Sleep to Dream
  Passage: "Sleep to Dream" is a song written and recorded by American alternative singer-songwriter Fiona Apple.  It was released on April 14, 1997 by Work Records and Columbia Records as the second single from her debut studio album "Tidal" (1996).
  Title: Every Single Night
  Passage: "Every Single Night" is a song written and performed by American alternative singer-songwriter Fiona Apple.  It was released on April 24, 2012 by Epic Records as the lead and only single from her fourth studio album "The Idler Wheel..." (2012).
  Title: Joanne Yeoh
  Passage: Joanne Yeoh Pei Sze (, is a Malaysian violinist and currently a lecturer in music at Universiti Putra Malaysia.  Yeoh began playing piano at the age of four and violin at eight.  Although classically trained, she also plays in contemporary settings including pop, dance and rap.  She released her solo instrumental debut album "Pulse of the Metropolis"in August 2005 and her second album "After A Dream" in 2013.
citations: Fiona Apple Sleep to Dream