Regina Spektor
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Moscow, Soviet Union (2001 – present)
Spektor studied classical piano from the age of six, practicing on a Petrof piano given to her mother by her grandfather. She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union. The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine, during the period of Perestroika when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate. The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving Russia, but they finally decided to emigrate, for religious and political reasons.
Traveling first to Austria and then Italy, the family settled in the Bronx, New York, where Spektor graduated from a middle school yeshiva. She then attended the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, New Jersey on a scholarship for two years, but, feeling out of place, eventually transferred to a secular public school, Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she finished the last two years of her high school career.
Spektor has stated that she was originally interested only in classical music, but that she later became interested in pop, rock, and punk as well.
Beginnings as a songwriter
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15
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Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, Detroit MI, United States
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Sound Academy, Toronto, Canada
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12
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The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL, Chicago, United States
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"Far" debuted at #3 on Billboard Top 200 chart!
2 Jul 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/reginaspektor
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Regina on NPR's "Morning Edition"
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The MySpace Music Feed: Incubus & Regina Spektor
22 Jun 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/reginaspektor
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